Tags Matching: 1998

FPCneck

By b. murphy | Published 12/31/2011

Recently, I was added to this Facebook group called, “The Best And Worst Of Hardcore And All The Shit That Came With It.” And it lives up to it’s name. It’s both awesome and infuriating. I realize opinions are like assholes, but saying Floorpunch is the worst hardcore band of all time is a lie. It’s not a fact or an opinion, it’s wrong. I won’t name any names, but I’m sure you can think of one million bands that don’t stack up to FP. Fah. Just infuriating. Plus, there’s always that one (or one hundred) old grump who feels like poking people with sticks. I’m sure they are the part of the “all the shit that came with it” portion. Oh well. Still, the good outweighs the bad. Love those stories.

As for this crewneck from crucialtimes86, they were sold on the Euro tour back in 98. I believe they were all printed in Europe during the tour, which may or may not explain why they are so DAMN SMALL. I have a large and the sleeves are so damn short. Not cool. Maybe they are b-grade sweatshirts. Every single one I’ve seen has the tag cut up the middle. That’s usually how b-grades are marked. Regardless, dope color. If you are medium longsleeve person, this crewneck will fit you with style.

Madball HC Lives.

By morgado | Published 12/09/2011

We have a Madball Blue Grape special for sale by xupindemgutsx. Pretty standard Madball shirt here, but with no bids at $3, this one is a no brainer! Yes my friends, Hardcore still lives.

Time Flies. 1998. 13 Years Ago. Shit.

By b. murphy | Published 07/30/2011

I was never a huge Time Flies fan. They just never connected for me. No one in my crew was big on them either so it was never reinforced on long car rides or time spent with the playstation. But I can give you two positives on this shirt.

1) Its yellow. Yellow during the youth crew revival was actually pretty “out of the box.” Even if YOT had yellow tees, this was definitely a different look.

2) theclevo always has a good story. Take this one. I got this directly from the band when they were on tour with us. We saw members of Quiet Riot eating at a truck stop Taco Bell. Can you beat that? Hell no.

Alive and Well Fest Tee

By morgado | Published 05/15/2011

Oh Alive and Well Fest, it’s been over a decade, but I remember you well. You were much more memorable than your concert tee.

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Talk about your stacked line ups. Sadly, the Trusters and I didn’t stick around for the second day because there was a Madball show in Worcester the next day. Yes, you read that right, we went home to see Madball and I don’t even remember who instead of Burn, Breakdown, and Floorpunch. “Don’t blame me, I didn’t drive there” is the only excuse that I can offer. Some highlights that I recall:

-hearing sketchy noises galore coming from boarded up buildings along the boardwalk as we walked to the convention hall.
-it being my first time seeing Underdog and 7 Seconds. Neither disappointed me in the slightest.
-Murphy’s Law having what seemed like half the crowd come up on stage with them for the entire set.
-Hare Krishnas giving out food. I do not remember if it was good food, so I’m guessing it wasn’t.
-DHU and the Follow Through Crew owning it with stage dives from the main stage during SOIA.
-Madball playing a bunch of Look My Way songs and the pitting frenzy they created making me finally realize that it was a good record; it just had underwhelming production.
-Hearing even more sketchy noises coming from the buildings along the boardwalk while Btrust and I walked around listening to the Michael Graves fronted Misfits from outside and talking about how we wished it was Danzig.

Strangely, I can’t remember a thing about the Fury of Five set. I must have been hit in the head.

Murphys Law European Hell Tour.

By morgado | Published 05/14/2011

I’m trying to decide how I feel about this 1998 Murphy’s Law European Hell Tour tee. I’ve never seen it before, and it’s kind of cool, but something about it isn’t clicking for me… the white tee maybe? I dunno if that’s it for sure, I really can’t put my finger on what it is, I just know that I feel like it’s missing something. But I’m not sure what. Pretty frustrating trying to pinpoint it, honestly. It’s a European Hell of the mind…

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Someone Else Didn’t Want.

By morgado | Published 05/12/2011

Looks like somebody else besides BMurph didn’t want this Madball ringer tee that seller introxchanges had up a couple weeks ago. It sold, and now it’s back… maybe it’s a sign that I should go for it…

Forever And Counting

By b. murphy | Published 05/08/2011

One time I saw Hot Water Music at a spot in New Bedford called Reflections. It was definitely one of the most off the wall shows I’ve seen. I mean, I’ve seen plenty of hard mosh, parade of stage dives, crazy gigs, but this one had a different vibe. The lineup was Smacking Isaiah, All Chrome, Grade and Hot Water Music. By the reaction of the crowd, you would have thought the line up was Chain Of Strength, Bold and Youth Of Today. Kids were going, no shit, bonkers. Stage dives, moshing, … just getting ill. It was intense. Needless to say, it was a great gig. HWM killed it. It may have even been a gig in support of their Forever And Counting album as it was in 1998. Two nights before that New Bedford gig, they played Worcester with Errortype 11, Grade and CONVERGE, and still, the New Bedford gig was zanier. Crazy, right? Grab this Forever And Counting tee from soulcraft1977.

Vision ringer style

By jbil | Published 04/27/2011

heathens brings us another ringer for the masses. He says he picked this up at the Alive and Well fest. I dont remember this being sold there but there was a ton of merch that day. I wanna say that was the first like big fest like atmosphere show I ever went to. I think the only thing I ended up copping from there was an underdog pool skater shirt. That whole weekend was a blast though. Floorpunch dudes played host for a bunch of CT people and showed us the wonders of the shore. Highlights include(forgive me if I get the details wrong) sneaking in on a press pass, murphy’s laws set, swimming at the shore, veggie burgers at some windmill place, swimming at Porters then fiances pool(mayber her parents??), getting split lip from Geoff TDT during one of the sets, and Burn’s set.

on another note. This fest much like the “hardcore for hunger” seem to be one of those gigs where all videos fell into some kind of black hole. Tons of people with cameras but I was only able to ever track down the SOIA set.

Bane – Some Gems From 10 Years Ago

By b. murphy | Published 04/12/2011

I love stumbling across cool little collections like this. What you are looking at from sos.wax is a snapshot from 10 years ago. Each design gives an impression of the band at a time in place in their existence. Some pretty cool pivot points. Lots of high moments and great memories (at least, from this outsider).

Tour 98. The first US tour for the band.

Tour 2000. This one was sold during Hellfest. Biggest stage they had played to date? I don’t know, but that crowd was fucking cool.

WE DON’T CARE! Split with Adamanatium era from 2001 (after the summer tour with Adamantium and Death By Stereo). I bet you could ask most fans of Bane and they wouldn’t be able to pick out these two songs, which is fucking terrible. The build up on Broke Wide Open is colossal. Skull splitting.

Ok, ok, this one is from a few years later. 2006 Euro tour? Maybe 2005. I was pretty stoked to pick one of these up. It took me a bit. Zach said he would stash some gear for me. Apparently he stashed it too well and it hasn’t been found since. No worries, I tracked it all down.

Big fan. What have you ever risked?
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Just One (blurry shot) Is Better Than A Thousand

By b. murphy | Published 04/09/2011

But instead of ONE blurry shot, alliedtrailers does you one better and gives you TWO. That’s right, TWO for the price of ONE. Good deal. If the pictures of this Better Than One Thousand tee were a little crisper (I even rotated the images for him …), you would see a pretty crucial show on the back. You’d also be able to read the sleeve print “PHILADELPHIA 4/25/98.” These were sold at this one gig. I couldn’t tell you the significance of the gig as I was not there. Instead, I was in Worcester seeing two shows for free in one night. I snuck into an Assumption College concert (it was a spring concert school event) and then rode my bike to the Palladium to sneak into some other big gig with Less Than Jake on the bill. I only saw one band. Granted, I probably would have preferred to be at this BT1K gig.