xxxMidgexxx wrote:Terrific band. Loved em 'back in the day'. Lotsa fun and lyrically right on.
100% this. Love them, especially the "True Self Revealed" 12". That record rips and has lost none of its intensity. I like the 7"s and the split Lp with Los Crudos, too, but not quite as much. When I've listened to them in recent years, I couldn't help but notice that they had much more of a heavy post-punk edge than I remembered back in the day. I do own it all, some in various formats, I think, but I might get this anyway. I love Joe and Don Giovanni. They are doing the world a great service by bringing this stuff into the light again. I'm glad they're not being forgotten by the younger generations of punx.
I interviewed them back in 1994 when we booked them to play at my college and that was the only time I got to see them. They played with Citizen Fish, handed out lyric sheets as bands did occasionally back then, and I interviewed them after the show for my zine. One of my regrets is not publishing that interview, along with others with Assfactor 4 and Anchor (a great indie-pop band from NJ during that era) that I made layouts for and everything with photos, the whole bit. I want to put them out since apparently, that era is all the rage in the hardcore scene now, so hopefully, that can happen at some point. I also interviewed Los Crudos and Deadguy around that time ('94-'95), but sadly those are lost. I REALLY wish the world could see the Crudos interview; that was so much fun. I just have to scan that stuff to a prospective publisher and send it over; one of these days. No idea if they'll want it, but at least I'll try.
Also, LOVE that picture of you and Michelle, mean. I remember her well as a very righteous human in the brief time that I got to talk to her. I always have to remember that she goes by that name now and not Todd, though.