I went to Hampshire College, just down the road. Pioneer Valley rules. Pixies were part of the UMass scene. I forgot to mention that Nate from the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones went to Hampshire when I was there.
Ha ha! Yes, the Pioneer Valley is a pretty great place to go to school. I went to UMass, so I was over to Hampshire here and there during my time. So, by the old Scooby Doo urban legend, you're a "Shaggy."
Right on. Oh, and as far as I know, no bands of any quality played around Amherst during my time there. A bunch of mediocre to crappy bands, but I don't tend to remember the names.
Except the Missing Lance Project. I was friends with a couple of them, so I don't want to necessarily throw them under the bus, but tepid white boy funk is as good a term as any. By way of the Spin Doctors.
i went to college in san diego and at that time there was a considerable amount of hippy jam bands ala grateful dead. i was friends with this one group "monkey" something or the other. i mean to say i used to play hackeysack in the quad with them dudes and they had a bong buried out behind the main library that theyd dig up every day around 4:20 and we'd do major bong hits bro. anyways, this one time one of the dudes who spent a year abroad in europe somewheres comes back and he knew i liked the records so he wanted to show me his awesome new record collection. so i went to their compound in university city and i shit u not there was all kinds of garbage on the floor of the whole house knee high and one of the band dudes was on the couch grating cheddar cheese onto his bare chest and he and his girlfriend were eating the cheese shavings straight from his chest. anyways, the one dude who just got back from europe, who btw sported a new baby braids and dread hairdo showed me his radical record collection which was mainly euro house and shit.
MC Felonious, his corny college handle, is straight outta cambridge. Dude taught me how to drink nyquil. Freshman year 1988, he was walking around campus with a patagoinia fleece with faux ermine cuffs, repping free your mind and your ass will follow on the back. In college we took a black expatriot writers class together and now he is an expatriot black artist (france). Funny. A cery cool brother.
Never saw smegma. If we start repping shows we saw in college or hometown shit could get crazy.
picking up from 93-97. bands i saw live in austin (for better or worse)
the motards the satans the primadonnas stretford carbomb andromeda strain the crying outlouds the inhalents glorium gut bucket windsor for the derby the 145s teen titans spoon el santo (sa) big drag (sa) jack o fire 8.5 souveniers wayne the train don walser golden arm trio power snatch gretchen phillips the adults trail of dead stars of the lid american analog set furry things bedhead desafinado johnboy gomez multitude of the slothful paul newman
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I did artwork for Man or Astroman?:
This thing was 6x8 feet and lived in my small apartment room with me for a while. The paint fumes were
Ha ha! Yes, the Pioneer Valley is a pretty great place to go to school. I went to UMass, so I was over to Hampshire here and there during my time. So, by the old Scooby Doo urban legend, you're a "Shaggy."
Right on. Oh, and as far as I know, no bands of any quality played around Amherst during my time there. A bunch of mediocre to crappy bands, but I don't tend to remember the names.
Except the Missing Lance Project. I was friends with a couple of them, so I don't want to necessarily throw them under the bus, but tepid white boy funk is as good a term as any. By way of the Spin Doctors.
OK, I guess I did just throw them under the bus.
MC Felonious, his corny college handle, is straight outta cambridge. Dude taught me how to drink nyquil. Freshman year 1988, he was walking around campus with a patagoinia fleece with faux ermine cuffs, repping free your mind and your ass will follow on the back. In college we took a black expatriot writers class together and now he is an expatriot black artist (france). Funny. A cery cool brother.
Never saw smegma. If we start repping shows we saw in college or hometown shit could get crazy.
Mars and Mystre
Darude
Sarina Paris
Rage Against The Machine
The Nonce
The Pharcyde
Jurassic 5
the motards
the satans
the primadonnas
stretford
carbomb
andromeda strain
the crying outlouds
the inhalents
glorium
gut bucket
windsor for the derby
the 145s
teen titans
spoon
el santo (sa)
big drag (sa)
jack o fire
8.5 souveniers
wayne the train
don walser
golden arm trio
power snatch
gretchen phillips
the adults
trail of dead
stars of the lid
american analog set
furry things
bedhead
desafinado
johnboy
gomez
multitude of the slothful
paul newman
Best band I saw at the '96 (or maybe '97, I can't remember) SXSW.
Here is the Texas Funk Compilation and the Sprawl - Heat Miser EP.