Single and Double Nostlagia
First a single shot: The Evaporators are possibly the longest running best band you ever saw in high school. Other attributes: totally punk, nicest guys in the world, fierce regionalists, never give up, love doing what they do. This track never made it to any LP/CD release, although possibly to one of their many 8-tracks, but it is a fine testament to the previous sentence.
The Evaporators - Grouse Mountain Scenic Railway
Double: The Bonaduces classic western Canadian tour with ninety-nine. Was that a life changing event for anyone else? The music is just straight prairies pop punk
(the mellow 'inteligent' Winnepeg style, not that brutish Calgary strain) but it just sounded so good ripping up the Downtown Youth Centre gym and the next night at The Brickyard Pizza's backroom. Then there's Judy Blume - just her name brings back a million pages of amazing 9 yr old escape. Both of these tracks are from the famous CiTR Live at Radio Thunderbird Hell sessions, and this one takes a little while to get into, so have some patience.
The Bonaduces - Judy Blume Weekend
The Evaporators - Grouse Mountain Scenic Railway
Double: The Bonaduces classic western Canadian tour with ninety-nine. Was that a life changing event for anyone else? The music is just straight prairies pop punk
(the mellow 'inteligent' Winnepeg style, not that brutish Calgary strain) but it just sounded so good ripping up the Downtown Youth Centre gym and the next night at The Brickyard Pizza's backroom. Then there's Judy Blume - just her name brings back a million pages of amazing 9 yr old escape. Both of these tracks are from the famous CiTR Live at Radio Thunderbird Hell sessions, and this one takes a little while to get into, so have some patience.
The Bonaduces - Judy Blume Weekend
posted by david b at 10:32 PM
3 Comments:
you are *this* close to posting Royal Grand Prix - Well Oiled Machine aren't you?
i was actually supposed to interview Royal Grand Prix for a zine I did in high school but they showed up late so I just interviewed the opening band instead. i never really got into them although i was a fan of the pre-major label show buisness giants and I almost played a whole through the first tonics 7".
You're pretty spot on with the Evaporators as "the longest running best band you ever saw in high school" comment. When I was on student council in high school, I booked the Evaporators to play in lieu of a horrible video dance. Not many people ended up getting in to the show because the principal wouldn't let out-of-town kids in, but Narduwar did manage to get the school's elderly janitor to do a few dance moves. And I think the $1500 we paid them (the price of a video dance) funded their entire 1998 tour.
The band also stayed at my parent's house and Narduwar interviewed my dad about his copy of the Hi-Fives' 'Fujikami the Warrior' 7". When one of my friends ordered a Narduwar video a few months later he put the interview with my dad on it, which I thought was pretty amazing!
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