So bust this, Peta was busy flippin’ burgers so was unable to be a part of this week’s show so that gave me free reign to go hardcore with the music and play tons of rad shit. Not that I wouldn’t have played it anyway but you know what I mean. There’s tons of stories about discovering bands, buying records, etc. The usual stuff that you have grown to love (hate?) from the LGL Rock Show. Anyway, click here, turn it up and get groovin’. Busy at the moment? Ok, so listen later by right click and save as on this link. Bingo! Everyone’s kicked a goal!
Enjoy tunes by:
Rise And Fall
Leadfinger
The Replacements
Give Up The Ghost
Project X
The Sword
Pulling Teeth
Cheerio
Anthrax
Cramp
The Undertones
Hellmenn
Ratcat
Chuck Ragan
Earl Lee Grace
The Cult
To celebrate the awesome new album by Touche Amore, I decided to play a show of nothing but hardcore music. With Peta in the USA, this means I can have a whole show without a single Bouncing Souls or Get-Up Kids tune. Pretty sweet! So I have delved into my collection of classic hardcore records and selected a good chunk of greatness. I hope you’ll dig it. Have a listen by clicking this link and it’ll play automatically or just right click and save as on this link to download a mp3 that you can put on your iPods or mp3 layers and listen to later.
Enjoy tunes by:
Touche Amore
Col Turkey
Where’s The Pope?
7 Seconds
Walk Proud
411
No Future?
Toe To Toe
Wrong Body
Gorilla Biscuits
Youth Of Today
Chain Of Strength
Blood Of Others
The Abused
Insted
SS Decontrol
D.R.I.
Gang Green
Wehrmacht
Deadstoolpigeon
This week we remember Joey Ramone who sadly passed away 10 years ago today. This Peta-less show is in honour of Joey’s awesomeness. There’s also talk of the AC4 / Star Fuckin Hipsters show, record store day, straight edge hardcore, tours, records, travelling, etc. The usual grit that you have come to expect from the LGL ROCK SHOW. Listen now by clicking this link or right click on this link to save the mp3 for later.
Enjoy tunes by:
Joey Ramone
D.A.D
Capsule
The New Christs
Against Me!
AC4
Star Fucking Hipsters
Eddie & The Hot Rods
The Black Angels
Mother Love Bone
1969
Robert Johnson
Henry Rollins
Boom Boom Satellites
Undertone was a hardcore punk noise band from Adelaide, Australia. When the band started, they were originally called Bile Slime but weren’t really doing much. I met a couple of the guys at the Pizza Hut I worked for (true story) where all of us delivered pizzas. We all got talking about music and then it dawned on us that we should get together and jam. So I joined the band as a guitarist (the first time I ever played guitar in a band) and started writing songs for them and things really started to move. The band was taken seriously and the jamming was done regularly. On the weekends, Grover (singer), Matt (bassist) and myself would go into the city, eat food, talk music and go record shopping. We all listened to so many different things that I think it helped inspire the sounds that we brought to band practice which would explain why our songs seemed a bit mish mash. One song would hear similarities to Helmet while the next was in the genre of crustcore like Infest followed by one inspired by the straight edge hardcore sounds of bands like 7 Seconds and Minor Threat, yet somehow it all sounded like Undertone.
We decided that the name Bile Slime wasn’t so great and searched out a new one. Then after listening to the band Inside Out (Zach’s band before Rage Against The Machine), there was a song on the CD titled “Undertone”. That sounded like it fit us perfectly. As Zach screams “You can’t silence the Undertone!” we figured that it suited our sound just fine and BAM! The new band was ready to rock. After only jamming a short time, playing parties, scout halls and any other venue that shut us down after 15 – 20 minutes, we decided a proper gig would be good and Undertone played our first show with the bands All Flight Crew Are Dead and Price Of Silence at the Crown And Anchor Hotel on the 7th of May, 1995. People started talking and the band started playing more frequently and got established rather quickly in the process. We added a second guitarist, Mark, and completed the line-up. We wanted a heavier, crazier sound and I wasn’t a competent guitarist on my own to make that happen. Along with Craig’s tight and super spazz fast drumming, the band was now cookin’ with gas! On the 17th of September, 1995, we went into the studio at the School of Audio Engineering to record 4 tracks which can be heard at the band’s Myspace page.
Then, something happened, one day I just got fed up and walked out of band practice never to return. Something changed with the band’s direction and my interest. I loved this band, I loved the high energy performances, I loved the insanity and chaos but the band was changing. Crust core had become the “in” thing in Adelaide at the time and that wasn’t really my cup of hot chocolate. I mean, sure, 1 or 2 songs per set was fine but a whole set’s worth? It didn’t do it for me. So I parted ways with the band. Neither me or the band were happy with how things were so it was the best thing to do. I have no idea how much longer they lasted but it seemed like all this happened within a year… but I could be wrong.
I had always proposed to master the recording and release it on 7” for the world to hear but to this day, it still hasn’t seen light. I did a cover and had it all ready to go but the funding was the problem. Then my interest. Maybe when vinyl pressing gets cheaper (if it ever does) I can look into it. Or if someone wants to put it out themselves, let me know. It does need to be mastered though and I think it’ll sound sweet once it is. Maybe I’ll do that part just for kicks so I can hear it at its fullest sound.
Anyway, I have this video on YouTube as it gives a pretty good idea of how Undertone were as a live band. I have a bunch of videos of this band as I tried to film all of our shows but this one especially sticks out for me as my favourite. I may add some more videos later but for now, you can check out this video of these 5 songs all in just under 9 minutes. The songs played are:
1. Reason For That
2. Passing Unnoticed
3. Chunks (a cover tune originally by the band, Last Rights)
4. Your Continued Success At Being A Fucking Asshole
5. Sea Of Shit (a song I heard rumours was written about the crowd at the Adelaide Big Day Out who were watching The Offspring but I can’t confirm if this is true or not as I am no longer in contact with any of these guys)
On a side note, I think if I was ever to be involved with a reunion show from any of my past bands, this would be the one. We just had something that seemed to work. Craig ended up drumming for Gacy’s Place, I went and drummed for the Blood Sucking Freaks, played guitar in Blood Of Others and started Muscle Car, and Mark moved to Melbourne and joined a hardcore band (I think… but I don’t remember their name. Fallout maybe?). Regardless, enjoy!
I had always proposed to master the recording and release it on 7” for the world to hear but to this day, it still hasn’t seen light. I did a cover and had it all ready to go but the funding was the problem. Then my interest. Maybe when vinyl pressing gets cheaper (if it ever does) I can look into it. Or if someone wants to put it out themselves, let me know. It does need to be mastered though and I think it’ll sound sweet once it is. Maybe I’ll do that part just for kicks so I can hear it at its fullest sound.
