BLACK FORK

artist: BLACK FORK (Oakland, California, USA)
venue: 924 Gilman Street Project
location: Berkeley, California, USA
date: 199?
length: 14 minutes

HERE

LOST GOAT

artist: LOST GOAT (San Francisco, California, USA)
venue: 924 Gilman Street
location: Berkeley, California, USA
date: ?? (1999-2000)
length: 32 minutes

HERE

DYSTOPIA

artist: DYSTOPIA (Los Angeles/Oakland, California, USA)
venue: 924 Gilman Street
location: Berkeley, California, USA
date: 01 January 1999

HERE
A board recording that suffers slightly from over-dominant vocals, but DYSPOTIA were deadly at this show. "This is the birth of 1999 - a whole lot of shit's gonna break loose probably in the next year...but we'll all do it together, right?"

VIRGIL'S TORMENT

artist: VIRGIL'S TORMENT (??, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: ?? May 2001
length: 17 minutes

HERE

DOPESICK

artist: DOPESICK (??)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 20 November 2001

length: 32 minutes

HERE

So many bands played Mission Records in the early '00s. Every Saturday and Sunday afternoon there were local bands no one had heard of, touring bands who weren't yet well known but who would become famous, there miscreants and dirtbags and edge kids and teenagers and middle aged tweakers and posit-fastcore bands and stoner sludge bands. Many of the shows were totally "whatever" of course, but there were more than enough life affirming moments to keep us all coming back.  

NATURECORE

artist: NATURECORE (??, USA)
venue: ??
location: ??
date: 1988/1989
length: 62 minutes

HERE
Who knows anything about this band? the "With Love..." 12" has been in all of the bargain bins since I knew what punk was, but still I know nothing about them. 

spontaneous eruptions of sound

DAN MELCHIOR

artist: DAN MELCHIOR (New York City...or maybe North Carolina? I don't really know)

venue: Philadelphia Records Exchange

location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

date: 2015

length: 53 minutes

HERE

NARCOTICA

artist: NARCOTICA (??)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: ?? May 2001
length: 19 minutes

HERE
I swear this band existed in every medium-to-large sized North American city in the '00s, but I also swear that NARCOTICA, based on this recording, was better than most of them. 

ARTIMUS PYLE

artist: ARTIMUS PYLE (San Francisco, California, USA)
venue: Radio Free Records
location: San Jose, California, USA
date: 22 August 1999
length: 17 minutes

HERE
The bass sounds like total shit, and my vocals sound like I was a fukkn child (I was 26), but we were kinda on fire this night - especially Scottzy - and the fifth track is my four favorite pre-Jensen ARTIMUS PYLE songs all stacked on top of each other (though "A Man" was a FUCKFACE song that ARTIMUS PYLE rarely played live). 

AMERICAN HATE

artist: AMERICAN HATE (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA)

venue: American House

location: ??

date: ?? 2016

length: 13 minutes

HERE

BRAINBLOODVOLUME

artist: BRAINBLOODVOLUME (San Francisco, California, USA)
venue: 924 Gilman Street
location: Berkeley, California, USA
date: ?? 2000
length: 15 minutes

HERE
Short lived project I had with members of REINA AVEJA. We quit before making a proper recording (though the closest we got can be heard here), and three of us continued as LAUDANUM.

DENUNCIA

artist: DENÚNCIA (??, BRAZIL)

venue: ??

location: ??, Brazil

date: 04 May 1997

length: 21 minutes

HERE

ANTAGONY

artist: ANTAGONY (Concord, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: ?? May 2001
length: 31 minutes

HERE

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

artist: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? (San Francisco, California, USA)
venue: Radio Free Records
location: San Nose, California, USA
date: 22 August 1999
length: under 3 minutes

HERE
Everything else from this set got recorded over with unenthusiastic live audio from another one of my bands playing (sloppily) a few months after this show, so here you have our feisty rendition of a GORILLA BISCUITS track and me asking the crowd to throw money in the hat for a touring band from Oklahoma.

MINOR THREAT

artist: MINOR THREAT (Washington, DC, USA)
venue: 9:30 Club
location: Washington, DC, USA
date: 13 October 1981
length: 16 minutes

HERE

UXA

artist: UXA (Los Angeles, California, USA)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 06 October 2001

length: 42 minutes

HERE

The first time I played Los Angeles in 1992, we stayed with De De Troit in Hollywood and she kicked us out of her house in the middle of the night because our singer was a shitty sketchball who tried making moves on her while she was sleeping. I didn't mention that night when I saw this show in 2001...also - the "Illusions Of Grandeur" LP on Posh Boy totally holds up. 

DER SCHWARZE KANAL

artist: DER SCHWARZE KANAL (??, GERMANY)

venue: Zoro

location: Leipzig, GERMANY)

date: 16 September 1994

length: 63 minutes

HERE

DOUBLE O

artist: DOUBLE O (Washington, DC, USA)
venue: Wilson Center
location: Washington, DC, USA
date: ?? 1984
length: 20 minutes

HERE

LAST WHITE CHRISTMAS II

artist: CHEETAH CHROME MOTHERFUCKERS (Pisa, Italia); I REFUSE IT! (Firenze, Italia); TRAUMATIC (??, Italia)

venue: San Zeno

location: Pisa, Pisa, Italia

date: 04 December 1983
length: 77 minutes

HERE

Bootleg of a live release, the tracks here appear to be from the '00s CD reissue on Schizophrenic, while the copied cover is from the initial cassette release. Can you imagine being at this fukkn show....? Also, there is arguably no entity more instrumental in spreading Italian hardcore around the world than BCT - it blows my mind what that dude accomplished.  Respect.