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A lot was happening in 1989, it seems. Probably the peak of the local St. Louis underground rock (for lack of a better term) scene. At the time, Ultraman was my favorite local hardcore band. This video features Pat Hercules on guitar, with Tim, Rob, Mark and John rounding out the rest of the lineup. Enjoy!

In the summer of 1989, before I left St. Louis for a miserable year in commercial radio in Chillicothe, Missouri, I wrote this scene report of the local punk/underground rock scene and submitted it to Maximum Rock’n'Roll. I was working at Streetside Records in Hazelwood at the time, had a weekly punk/hardcore radio show on KYMC in West St. Louis County, and was pretty plugged into what was happening locally. This piece ran in the October issue (MRR #77). Click here to download/read (PDF). Bands featured in the report include ULTRAMAN, DUCK DUCK GOOSE, WHOPPERS TASTE GOOD, LAFFIN’ STOCK, STRANGULATED BEAT-OFFS, THE JETSONS, SINISTER DANE, THE NUKES, DEAD PLANET, TUFF NUTZ, STONED WALLS (who would later morph into THE CRIPPLERS and then on to TOMORROW’S CAVEMAN and LONG JOHN THOMAS & THE DUFFS) and more. It’s pretty long! Enjoy.

Kudos to the PUNK ZINE ARCHIVE for archiving this one!

Raymilland will be playing at Off Broadway on Dec. 26 with Bunnygrunt, Medical Tourists, and a special appearance by the Welders. Mark your dayplanners.

Raymilland are a legendary St. Louis post-punk band that has not played live since 1981. All four original members will grace the stage and play loads of material from their about-to-be-released retrospective. The archival release, “Recordings ‘79-‘81,” will be available at this show on CD or as a limited LP/CD package!

The Welders are a late ’70s all-female Punk/Pop band that will have an archival release on BDR Records in early 2010. They will make a special, one time reunion appearance at this show as well. BDR Records co-presidential bands will open the show.

Simply awesome.

Next up in my short little series featuring music recorded by bands playing on my radio show at KDHX is a set by local garage-rockers Thee Lordly Serpents, featuring Roger Ward on drums/vocals, Mike McDaneld on guitar/vocals, and John Ebert on bass/lead vocals. I’m including five of the eight songs they played on the night of September 13, 2004.

Thee Lordly Serpents – Gonna Get You (Live on KDHX)
Thee Lordly Serpents – LSD (Live on KDHX)
Thee Lordly Serpents – Tomorrow’s Yesterday (Live on KDHX)
Thee Lordly Serpents – I Want You Day (Live on KDHX)
Thee Lordly Serpents – Not My Style (Live on KDHX)

T. S. Eliot

“It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one’s childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.” -T. S. Eliot

Check these out on Lo-Fi Saint Louis! There are actually two videos in the playlist. Here’s the first one, posted here from YouTube:

Poster by Potter

Our next TIRC live rock’n'roll event is scheduled for THIS Wednesday night at Off Broadway. Yeah, sorry, I’ve been busy and kinda forgot to post about this show ’til just now. So sue me. But c’mon, it’s not like most of you reading this have that much going on on a Wednesday night in the middle of summer, anyway, right? So it shouldn’t be too difficult to rearrange your schedule to squeeze this one in… I mean, really, when was the last time you got to see a great rock’n'roll band from Puerto Rico… or ANY kind of band from Puerto Rico? So, now’s your chance. And these guys are good, too. If they weren’t, I wouldn’t be messing with getting ‘em a show here and promoting them on my website. Life’s too short to promote crap, that’s my motto… or something. So anyway, you’ve got this great band from Puerto Rico, they’re called Davila 666. My guess is that has something to do with the devil or Satan or whatever. Kind of a goofy name, but whatever. Go easy on ‘em, it’s not easy these days to come up with a band name that’s never been used before. So these guys play the kind of music that Kopper (that’s me, duh) really digs… soulful, trashy garage punk. Sorta like a Latin American version of the Black Lips, for those of you that need me to pigeonhole ‘em for ya. If that sounds like it might be up your alley, then I hope to see you at the show. For more info on these guys, visit their Myspace page. Oh, and if what I’m telling you ain’t good enough to convince you to go, then rest assured that ANY band on In The Red Records is one that you should do everything in your power to see perform live at least once before you buy the farm. That, my friends, you can take to the bank. Old Larry Hardy, my friends, that man knows how to run a record label.

Opening the show will be Left Arm and the Nevermores, so get there early to get adequately LUBED for these rockin’ Puerto Ricans.

By the way, RSVP and help promote this event on Facebook… CLICK HERE. Gracias!

Saturday May 23 at Deluxe will see three local bands take the stage that each have TIRC Records releases under their belts: The 75s, who released their Stereo EP on TIRC back in February, Left Arm, whose Dissatisoul LP was the best local release of 2008 (if I do say so myself) and who will be releasing their latest 7″ single, “Electric Babies,” very soon, and headlining, veteran St. Louis rock-n-rollers the Nevermores, who will be celebrating the release of their first full-length slab, Nevereverafter. It should be a fun party and a fantastic night of St. Louis-style rock’n'roll, and I hope you’ll come out and support the label and the bands.

Poster by Potter

This is a great T-shirt (I love that logo on the back and have often admired it when I’m driving behind a STLFD vehicle). Just got mine in the mail yesterday, so you might see me sporting it around town soon. Get one!