[kj] feast of blaze(original).

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Seeing Melt Banana at the time you did must have been great. I saw them 
right as they released Cell-Scape a few years ago, about 175 people 
present, very pulverizing sound live. Was surprised at the youth of the 
audience and how many seemed to not be from any sort of grind scene, 
much less hardcore, but a very hipster-heavy Urban Outfitters indie sort 
of crowd with trendy hair and tight ironic t shirts. I thought the crowd 
would be more, well, punk looking, and not as overwhelmingly young.

The only band I can think of that I saw in their glory days was Fugazi, 
after Steady of Diet of Nothing and just before they released In On the 
Killtaker. When I saw them they hadn't released In On the Killtaker (a 
GREAT album), in other words, but were playing songs from it; no one had 
the material before, some of which almost approaches a Minor Threat 
intensity ("Great Cop"). The energy was absolutely insane. Got to see 
Fugazi eject someone and give them their money back personally at the 
same show --- classic stuff. A local riot grrl band, Wayward Girl, 
opened for them, as that was the big thing then, too.

-Oliver




Leigh Newton wrote:

> Sad to say that I missed the glory days of almost all my favourite bands. The so-called 'glory days' being a very subjective thing, of course. But, for example, I never saw Skinny Puppy until a couple of years ago (and then again a few months ago), so I missed out on Too Dark Park, VIVISect, Last Rights, etc. Never saw Nomeansno circa 'Wrong'. Never saw Faith No More circa 'Angel Dust'. Never saw the Jesus Lizard circa 'Goat'. The list is endless. There's not a whole lot I can say for myself. I saw Anthrax on the Persistence of Time tour which I think was their artistic peak. I saw Failure before Magnified came out. I saw Mr. Bungle on the Disco Volante tour which also featured Melt Banana who were touring Scratch or Stitch. Saw Shudder To Think on the Pony Express Album tour which is undeniably their tour de force. I also got to see Khanate before they broke up which I'm really happy about. Anyone else got any tales from the glory days?

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