I saw these guys play in 86 at the Olympic with a bunch of my high school brothers. I can't remember exactly with who but my crew was Deustche, Match, Enoch, and Ivan. This show headlined the English Dogs, along with the UK Subs, Youth Brigade and ARR openned. There may have been one or two more but I've already talked about how horrible my memory is. The English Dogs sucked I thought. The UK Subs were killer in that 70's punk kinda way. I never saw a guy more covered in spit than the singer of that band. Whoever thought of spitting on bands while they play was an idiot. Youth Brigade was my favorite. They just all around rocked the whole show and about the only time there wasn't fighting was during "Sink With California". Non stop fights at this packed show and just about every "punk" gang in SoCal was represented. LADS, Suicidals, Circle One and several skinhead gangs. Funny thing about these gangs is that at this show they didn't fight each other, they just did the old 5 on 1 to random people. Just like every gang ever, tough as hell when there's ten of them but quiet as a mouse by themselves. This was the scene though at shows during this time. ARR from Arizona, openned and I just dug them so I got this tape for a couple of dollars. Your basic hardcore band very typical of the time. The sad thing was that after the show, when we got out to my bug, the stereo had been stolen, so we couldn't listen to the tape on the way home. Give these guys a listen and maybe you'll like a song or two.
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