This one left me with perma-grin...reminds me of what all the women in my life must have experienced having sex with me. High expectations... disappointment... get as far away as possible. Maybe it wasn't all that bad. It doesn't matter anyway, partying was always more important to me throughout my life and then when it got really bad with the hooch, no woman could compete with the bottle. Now when all is said and done, my wife has the leftovers of a life like that, the "relics" you might say.
Picked up the Flat Tires vs. Asound 7" (with Jeff "Antiseen" Clayton cover art), I'm not sure when, but it must have been after 2010 when it was released. Was going through a stack of 7"s I hadn't listened to yet, believe it or not. Did a little searching for info on the bands and whatnot, and ran across a great review/site in the The Obelisk. The whole band rocks but the drummer is unusually insane in a 60's British drummer kinda way ala Mitch Mitchel, Ginger Baker, Keith Moon, etc. Best tune hands down on the split with all it's hard and heavy glory...
The Asound - Joan
Shit Happens, you knew that right?
In order to make shit happen, a person back in the day could have referred to the Anarchist Cookbook. Don't know where my copy went, they go for about $15 on Amazon and Alibris. Got a wild hair to see if there was a pdf floating around somewhere and sure enough this pirate of a site had the original 1971 copy, We Has Links. It's since been updated several times to go with the information age...easy to find a pdf of those updated versions if you want them too.
Picked up this LP a while back solely because I'd heard a member of Iron Lung had been in the band. The drummer of Iron Lung was the guitarist of Vae Victis, is my understanding. The bio at Discogs reads..."VAE VICTIS was born from the ashes of Reno Goatrock pioneers EVERSKWELCH. From 1997 until 2001 VAE VICTIS reigned as one of the best bands to emerge from Reno's underground punk scene. One of the more underrated bands of the time, VAE VICTIS is outlived by their legacy, members of VAE VICTIS concurrently played in, or went on to play in such bands as GEHENNA, CRUSHSTORY, REDRUM(reno), IRON LUNG, ARTIMUS PYLE, CRUCIAL ATTACK, COLD SWEAT, THE JENNIFER ECHO and more." If you're looking for another Iron Lung-esque band, then this isn't it. VV is more of a straight forward metallic hardcore thing, not so much start-stop-start. The tunes are more melodic, not in an Air supply kind of way (I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy), they swap hectic for driving. All the tunes shred, but if I had to pick one it would be "Hope"...
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