tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616668004118927938.post6644784047791430211..comments2023-08-08T08:01:41.522-07:00Comments on 12 Notes is Enough: Dischord 1 - The Teen Idles - 'Minor Disturbance E.P.'captain2manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09547143878376088048noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616668004118927938.post-23774847312261493692018-04-30T12:48:56.233-07:002018-04-30T12:48:56.233-07:00Having this record and copious others over the yea...Having this record and copious others over the years show up in the mail was a magical moment. Give the mailman a high-five, right? (we did give him a glass of champagne when he dropped off the mail during my brother's college graduation party years later ...long overdue in my book!). So, yes, not the best record ever recorded, but crucial to us who craved anything on the HC front those days, especially from far-away DC (I lived in Redondo Beach, CA). I still get just as excited as ever holding the 7-inch EPs in my hands. This was one of the early ones for me --- and an important one. -- Andy NystromAndy and Cat Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01491754140293333304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616668004118927938.post-30943268358470287962018-04-20T12:43:47.745-07:002018-04-20T12:43:47.745-07:00Totally what I'm looking for Aaron. This is E...Totally what I'm looking for Aaron. This is EXACTLY the type of comments & conversation I'm hoping to generate with this blog. Keep 'em coming....I know we have a lot of shared love for these records.captain2manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09547143878376088048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616668004118927938.post-8077310786535895422018-04-20T06:34:04.083-07:002018-04-20T06:34:04.083-07:00There I was...a young kid obsessed with everything...There I was...a young kid obsessed with everything punk rock, transfixed, and staring at the wall of rare records in Vintage Vinyl of Woodbridge, New Jersey, in the summer of 1988. And there it was...the unicorn of all hardcore records: an original copy (though 2nd pressing, with the hand-drawn Black Flag bars on Henry Garfield's knuckles, because by the time the second press came out he had already joined Black Flag). I had to rub my eyes. Was it really there? But, my God, it was 29 dollars! 29 dollars! What an absurd amount of money to a 15 year old kid whose only job up to that point was as a golf caddie, slaving away in the hot sun next to miserly old men who would sometimes growl, "Thanks a lot, kid" and hand you 50 cents at the end of their back 9. But this was the Teen Idles record! The very first straight edge record ever made...to me and my crew of adolescent suburban hardcore kids it was the Holy Grail. I simply had to buy it. So I did. And it became, and still is, the crown jewel of my 30+ years of record collecting. Well, maybe the Bad Brains' "Pay To Cum" record is. No, wait, it's the first Bad Religion EP. Damn...record collectors are such scum. And verily, I am one. <br />But after all these years, the magic of listening to that actual wax, and holding the package in my hands, reading and re-reading every word, has never diminished. It was an important record in so many ways...it was the perfect document of youth in transition. The Teen Idles were kids leading other kids to a different way of seeing and being. <br />Jeff, I didn't mean to hijack your blog, but reading your blog really brought back some very real and excellent memories of this record and what it meant and means to me. Thanks for doing this great site!Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06803430015643530975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616668004118927938.post-30287321469120461232018-04-17T06:30:25.820-07:002018-04-17T06:30:25.820-07:00Good record.Good record.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com