Red Rockers-Condition Red

I am sure of that some of you might be familiar with this band. The song China was on MTV quite a bit in the early 80's. Blech......But really, this band had a very nice start. First they released a debut Ep that I have posted on here, and then this fantastic album. For those that dig The Clash or more locally, The Dils and Rank N File then you will dig this. These guys started out in New Orleans and moved to the hip and happening San Francisco punk scene in 1979'ish. This came out in 1980 on the local label 415 Records. 415 is the phone area code for San Francisco and at one time the Peninsula too. The guy that owned the label, Howie Klein went onto major label success and inking Green Day at their label or something like that. 415 had Romeo Void, Translator (Everywhere That I'm Not), SVT, Mutants, Offs, Wire Train, Nuns, Pearl Harbor (Drivin'), VKTMS, and others....Probably the closest SF had for a label that would put out punk/new wave in the late 70's. Trivia, The first real big show I ever saw was The Ramones and Red Rockers at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco...I don't know what year though. 1981??????


http://www.mediafire.com/?03q11129sohb3t8

Shattered Faith Vol. 2

Ok ok ok....I am going through a little mid life crisis here. I just turned 47 and I am looking around me and not liking the scene man! Seriously, it has been a little tough turning the page on another year. That said, today was the first day that it has felt like summer here in Santa Cruz, CA....tourists gong to the beach, vacationers hanging, schools out etc. Well my wife is in Michigan for a few days...So I am going to get drunk and wallow a bit. Which leads me to this post. I am a huge Shattered Faith fan. Some of you might know who Kerry Martinez is...he of The US Bombs fame. Kerry is one heck of a cool guy! My old band played with The US Bombs a lot. Like them, but I love Shattered Faith! You see, I am a fan of good, intelligent hardcore done with some melody. Agent Orange, CH3, Shattered Faith, Adolescents, DI, (early) Social Distortion, Vandals, etc.....are you catching a theme here???? OC punk or just good ole melodic Southern California hardcore. I grew up in the SF Bay Area where we had Christ On Parade, CD2, Bad Posture, Crucifix, Code of Honor, etc....though I like those bands, they did not have the sing a long qualities of our neighbors down south. So here I am right now drinking, and listening to Shattered Faith and just digging their tunes. Just an FYI, ignore the first track which is an insipid cover of The Vibrators Baby Baby...yuck.


http://www.mediafire.com/?46cipv8y7daf3g0

A New Twist

Been thinking about this for a little bit now. I want to pick a year and then post stuff from that year. So with that said, I will be starting off with the year 1983. Watch for some new posts here in the next few days!
Ken

Help

My page tells me to sign in...when I click on it to sign in, I am already signed in. I cannot post in the comments section nor can I comment on other blogs. I repeatedly will try to sign in and Google keeps bringing me back to step one...what is going on here??? Any thoughts?

Ok, thanks for the replies...I cannot even use the comment section to reply to anyone. I just emptied my cookies, and as Longy mentioned, I signed in at the bottom (how's it going Longy!) and both have not worked. Others are having this problem too, so it must be some kind of Google thing. On my page it say to sign in, when I do, I am already signed in. This is confusing the hell out of me.

Negative Trend-Pop Sessions

aside from the fact that Rozz sings on this, I don't really know much about this session. I do know that Negative Trend were a shit hot San Francisco punk band. They did not release a whole lot of material but there place in SF punk history is sealed.
Ken

http://www.mediafire.com/?474kw0yy903qu

Swingin' Utters-Here, Under Protest

Ummmmm....just perfection, that is all. Please do yourselves a favor and get this. This album will easily make my top 10 for 2011. I get to see them in Santa Cruz with Rev. Horton Heat in a few months!

RIP Poly Styrene

Poly, the world was a better place because of your existance. You will be missed.