This blog has led me to a podcast gig! A couple of months ago, Brian Cathy posted in a Dischord Records Facebook group that he was starting a podcast that would go record-by-record through the Dischord catalog. I got in touch with him to let him know that I was really looking forward to it & I pointed him in the direction of this blog, where a couple of years ago, I had made an attempt (quickly aborted) to blog my way through the Dischord catalog. He read the posts I made and liked them & mentioned this blog in an early episode of the podcast.
He & his original co-host made it through nine episodes (up through the Youth Brigade 'Possible E.P.') before his co-host decided to leave the podcast. Brian reached out to me about possibly guest co-hosting a few episodes with him, but I saw a window of opportunity and suggested that if it went well, why should it be a "guest" situation?
We recorded & released our first episode this past Monday - covering Side A of the classic 'Flex Your Head' comp. It went very well and I received a lot of positive feedback and tomorrow, the episode covering Side B will be released. I'm now on board for the long haul and look forward to bringing the same type of content you would have received here had I decided to stick with my original concept a couple of years ago.
The podcast is called 'End On End' - and you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts. A direct link to the episodes can be found here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/893587
As far as the blog is concerned, the next four posts are going to be reproductions of interviews done a long time ago for a one-off zine I did with some very close friends around 1996 or so called '3 Cynical'. We only did one issue, which I'm very proud of, although a second issue was completely done - but I wanted the zine to be free and I was looking at expenses I realistically couldn't handle to get it to the finish line.
The zine, unintentionally, turned out to be something of an Amphetamine Reptile Records fanzine. The issue that came out had interviews with Unsane, Supernova & Guzzard. The issue that never came out had interviews with Gaunt, The Cows and Hammerhead. Those interviews, unfortunately, are lost and were never published. I hope to find them some day - maybe they're in a dusty old box in my father's house somewhere. I don't know. I'd love to have them back. I'd even happily transcribe the tapes if I could ever find them.
But for now, I'm going to republish the interviews that were featured in issue #1 - which although published - so few people ever read them that I thought it would be fun to feature them here. Keep in mind the interviews are almost 25 years old and, to be honest about it, I wasn't the best interviewer. Aside from the three AmRep bands mentioned above, there's also an interview with Pacifier, a Long Island band from that time who were quite noisy and fit in well with the unintentional AmRep-thing. Those guys are also all close friends to this day, so I'm sure it'll be fun for them to read as well.
A quick shoutout here to the people who helped me with that zine - almost all of whom remain friends to this day: Lloyd Zare, Aaron Pagdon, Kerry Crandall Zion, Marc Lopez, Phil Lerman, Jen Maler, Ron Zion, Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Vinny Segarra, Suzanne Stillinger & Adam Zare.
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