There Are Some Things That Never Die
Man, the amount of old school punk/hardcore media that’s been resurfacing on sites like YouTube and Flickr is becoming positively daunting. It’s like all the old Zines from the 80’s and 90’s got drunk on a few cases of Milwaukee’s Best one night and threw up all over the internet. I need to talk to my crack squad of scientists that I keep in the garage and see how they are coming along with that clone. I mean, I could kill days wadding through all these golden oldies. I need a whole team of myselves (with matching jerseys: ‘Team Skelton’) just to keep up.

One of my favorite YouTube finds as of late are thesetwo videos from the year 1812 showing NoMeansNo when they were just an experimental duo of young lions with full manes. For full contrast, fast forward a century to this video. NoMeansNo, are like a fine wine; the older the get the more incredible and delicious they become. They also never broke up nor cashed in on a ‘reunion tour’, they just stayed constant, relevant and important. A triphecta that’s extremely rare.

Recent Flickr finds include: This was DC/1980’s, Pre-IFC Rollins…, Ian MacKaye – Wilson Center, HR Bad Brains – Chapel Hill – 1980, Verbal Assualt.