Pinhead Gunpowder (Green Day, Crimpmpshrine): Live

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Pinhead Gunpowder (named after a very strong tea) are a sort of Gilman Street super-group, the Blind Faith of NoCal punk, if you will. After all the band is centered around uber-sceneststr Aaron Cometbus and prominently features Green Day's Billie-Joe Armstrong and other Gilman/Lookout Records (more HERE) vets. Fortunately, the band always played it low-key - releasing records sporadically, rarely playing live - thereby  avoiding any vestiges of hype. They've released a string of albums, singles, split releases and compilation appearances in their twenty-plus year existence without ever becoming widely-known. The group's songs (mostly written by Cometbus but some written by Armstrong under the pseudonym Wilhelm Fink) consistently offer a cool mid-temp punk with sharp-eyed, narrative lyrics, as this live show from 2010 goes a long way to prove.

 

 

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Screeching Weasel: Screaming Otter in My Pants (1993)

Okay while readers are still offering some back-n-forth on how damaged Screeching Weasel's legacy is (see HERE), I'll offer a final bootleg of a surprisingly well-recorded 1993 show (circa Anthem for a New Tomorrow). Enjoy...

If you survived the late 80's, this is a pretty jaw-dropping line-up

Track Listing:
1. Veronica Hates Me
2. Peter Brady
3. Slogans
4. Falling Apart
5. Teenage Freakshow
6. Leather Jacket
7. I Can See Clearly Now
8. Every Night
9. Kamala's Too Nice
10. I'm Gonna Strangle You
11. The Science of Myth
12. Mary Was an Anarchist
13. Rubber Room
14. Cindy's On Methadone
15. Don't Turn Out the Lights
16. Ashtray
17. Joanie Loves Johnny
18. Totally
19. Let the Sun Shine In

Let us know you view on Weasel, live dead or zombified in the COMMENTS section.

Winepress: Complete Recordings

Winepress were a Chicago pop-punk band, who's catchy, fun and bratty songs bore a strong Screeching Weasel (more HERE) influence. Of course without Mr. Weasel's belligerence and with an upbeat Happy Days-ish lyrical outlook, another point of comparison might be their slightly-more well-known contemporaries, Weston. The band only released two singles and a split e.p. with The Fighters before breaking up, leaving a now out-of-print compilation called Complete Recordings on Harmless Records (home of the band Walker - see HERE) to remember them by.

This post is the product of a request by a reader and a upload from an anonymous donor.

Let us know what you think of Winepress and the bands that Screeching Weasel influenced in the COMMENTS section (where you'll find the Complete Recordings link).

Screeching Weasel: Punk Rock Superheroes (Demos and Live)

Yesterday's episode, The Tragedy of the Weasel - see HERE, generated some smart responses, so in hopes of furthering the discussion here's a bootleg that collects up the Screeching Weasel's 1986 demo and a 1992 (?) radio broadcast from the venerable WMFU.

Tracklist

1986 Demo

1         Society        
2         Serial Killer        
3         I Can't Stand Myself        
4         I Hate You        
5         Whip You/Shopping Spree        
6         Don't Touch My Car/Mother        
7         Fred Is Dead        
8         Fast Food        
9         In The Hospital        
10         Leave Me Alone        
11         Work        
12         Raining Weasels/Pick Up        
13         K-Mart        
14         Feel Like Shit        
15         Oscar Myer/Nothing Matters        
16         Devil At McDonalds        
17         I Hate Old Folks/Cows        
18         You're So Boring        
19         Stupid Hippy        
20         Bullshit

Live On WMFU Radio (1992?)

21         I Can See Clearly        
22         Teenage Freak Show        
23         Daddy Is A Whip        
24         Jeannie's Got A Problem ...       
25         High School Psychopath        
26         Joanie Loves Johnny        
27         Murder In The Brady House        
28         I Wanna Be A Homosexual        
29         What We Hate        
30         Don't Turn Off The Lights        
31         Guest List        
32         Veronica Hates Me        
33         Ding Bat       
34         Cindy Is On Methadone        
35         Supermarket Fantasy        
36         Science Of Myth/Crying In My Beer

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Screeching Weasel: Live on WZRD (1993)

Point One: Screeching Weasel were one of the most influential bands of the nineties.

Point Two: Ben Weasel's cowardly attack on two women in Austin in March of 2011 and his subsequent semi-apology and follow-up screed (which combined the self-aggrandizement of Charlie Sheen and the sense of victimization of Sarah Palin) have damaged his band's reputation, possibly forever.

As for point one, I'll still keep listening to my old SW records. But in light of point two, I will not support Ben "Weasel" Foster until he takes personal responsibility, rather then blaming others for the fall-out of his act, and stops hiding behind this mentally unstable idea that he's just playing a 'character'. I do believe the man can sort his shit out, he's overcome some serious problems in his life and he's done a lot of good things for people.





So in remembrance of the mightiness of Screeching Weasel the band, here in one of their primes with Dan Panic on drums, Johnny Personality on bass plus Jughead and Danny Vapid on guitar, is a live radio broadcast from 1993. The set-list, shows the band, and Weasel always needed strong back-up, leaning heavily on the then-new album Wiggle (on Lookout Records - more HERE) and giving those songs an edge that was missing in the recording studio.


1    Intro
2    I'm not in love   
3    Second Floor East   
4    One Step Beyond   
5    Jenny's Got A Problem With Her Uterus   
6    Achtung (Authority cover)   
7    Automatic Rejector   
8    Joanie Loves Johnny   
9    Radioblast   
10    27 Things I Wanna Do To You   
11    Slow Motion   
12    The Girl Next Door   
13    Sad Little Girl   
14    Ain't Got No Sense   
15    Cindy's On Methadone   
16    Danny Is A Wimp   
17    Murder In The Brady House   
18    Crying In My Beer / Interview


So do you care less about this Ben Weasel fracas? Is it old news or an open wound? Does it change your view of Screeching Weasel, the band? Do we need another post to talk more about the MUSIC? Let us know in the COMMENTS section (which is where you'll find Live on WZRD).