Warning?

 

Shiitake mushroom, a damn good album!

Circa 1991(?), my old pal and WD40 bandmate, Erio, checking out some band in Humboldt County. The scene was outstanding up there in those days and a real blast to be a part of. Well, life goes on and we go on to bigger and better (?) things. Some of us go on to have kids and then...BAM...they grow up and are doing their thing. Erio has always been good about keeping me in the loop on the escapades of his Son, Tiger. One of the many things he's doing, is being a part of this rad San Francisco based band, Warning? who just released a virtual album!

So tell me about your first experience with music and how that motivated you to play...not just play, but get out there with some other like minded folks and put your shit out there?

I didn’t really like music all that much until middle school, when I started listening to punk. I really just wanted to hang out and play music.  That got me to join a band, then learn guitar. 

What made Warning? happen, what makes the band tick, what are y'all about and how's that working for ya?

Warning? started with my buddies, Blue and Jess, in high school (2019). We had guitar, drums and vocals which, we all really began learning when the band was started. We booked our first show that initial month at The Phoenix Theater and wrote as many songs as we could. We just want to play as hard as we can and the harder we play the less it seems to matter how we sound. Our current lineup is Blue, Tiger, Dio, and Dono.

Give me the spiel man, I know it ain't about money, you're obviously not exactly Green Day material (hahah), but what are you out there for?

We want to have a good time and play shows. Warning? is a band that has songs, and it’s fun when we try to play those songs really fast live. It never sounds the same twice and it’s more fun that way.

I was thinking about it and your old man and I have known each other since about '88, up in Humboldt, playing music (he is top notch peeps). What kind of impact has he had on you musically and otherwise?

My dad always had punk around in his truck when I was little but I didn’t like it back then. I got older and when I asked him about it he told me to check out Black Flag. Since then, hardcore punk is most of what I listen to. 

When you're not involved in your music, what are you up to dude?

When I’m not playing music I draw and skate. 

Tell me about this virtual album that just came out, plans to make a hardcopy (cassette/cd/vinyl)? Gigging, touring?

Our new album is called Too Many To Count and we put it out on all the streaming services. We’re gonna release CDs soon but we’d like to do vinyl as well sometime. We’ve got gigs all around the Bay Area over the next few months. 

This last one I ask everyone...what's spinning on your virtual or otherwise, turntable at the moment, who's hot in the past and present that you're listening to?

Been listening to Grindline the Band, The Witless (sf), Agression, Gee tee, WD40

Thanks Tiger!

These guys definitely have it going on when it comes to highly diggable hardcore that is in the now! 2024 baby and the legacy lives on. Lots of influences but they do fantastic at playing their own brand of hardcore punk. Ahhh, to be back in the bay and catching one of their shows would be amazing, so if you live anywhere in the area, get yer ass on down there. Give 'em a listen,,,

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Mentally Murdered

 Here we have Erio of WD40 fame and his son Tiger, who's in this bitchin band called Warning? that will be featured on the next post!!! Be sure to check that, especially if you're in the Bay Area, as they are one of the hottest hardcore bands I've heard out of there since Filth..."you know I wouldn't trip"

I hadn't heard this tune by the indomitable Weedeater before because the original full show had this song cut out of the mix.

Ya ever read the comments on a video on (the) fucking youtube. I'm not the smartest guy in the world, But I'd have to try extremely hard, like constipated pushing, to be that god damn stupid. It's not just stupid, but the ignorance and lack of (musical) sophistication is sickening, and reminds me of how septically sick the human race is. The one advantage of being old (that I've found), is knowing you're fucking shit. Like knowing when to shut the fuck up, listen and do your homework, for example. You have to sift through these comments, like having to fish out something valuable that you dropped in a port-a-pottie. I did find that valuable object and it was in the form of a comment sending me to the above video of the band...soundboard quality fucking upload. I saw them on this tour in Denver. In fact Big Shawn & I drove in the same blizzard and on the same highway that the band did. I remember this fucking dickhead, I wanted to smother this guy, that was in the crowd. He wouldn't shut the fuck up and reminded me of 99.9% of the comments on (the) fucking youtube.

The other day Mr. P was pissed that I cut the ride short because I forgot my smokes and he wouldn't get out of the truck, so I left him to his own devices and came back with a smoke...and we had a chat.

Everything we do is an interpretation of something we experience...this guy's comment on the above video, "0:55 that stolen riff from Repulsion" reminds me of how stupid motherfuckers are that don't understand that. Music is this one continuous circle of experience. Think of the Napalm Death Guys, at this particular juncture of time, as eating a meal of life and regurgitating it into "their" sound. It wasn't stolen it was borrowed...hahah. This is my absolute favorite song and lineup of the band. They have "assiduity"! There were only three albums with this lineup, or should I say ones that were unique to the long history of the band with it's many musicians and incarnations. I don't trip that there wasn't any original

Your aspirations, unable to stretch
Beyond the barriers of what's expected,
As the free thought you were born with
Becomes externally polluted.
Lose sight of your ideals
In their brainwashing institutions,
Predetermine your values
To befit your substandard existence...
Discouraging creativity,
To aim for empty ambitions.
Living up to others expectations.
Takes hold of your assiduity.
Mentally murdered!
Always up to the mark,
Set the wheels in motion,
A fake sense of security
From your invariable position.
Sinking in the crowd,
A face minus expression.
A mouth that echoes words,
Recycled from tradition.
Your only contentness
Is in living a lie.
Mentally murdered!
Do you possess the strength
To re-create your own life?

Admittedly, I haven't listened to a very much of the later stuff from ND, but of that little bit, which isn't grindcore at all, more of a death metal type vibe, this tune nails it. Go figure though, you put Jesse Pintado (RIP) of Terrorizer in the mix and you're bound to get something special.

Played out, wide off the mark,

Mania develops,

Akin to fiction,

More than to a word of fact.

My own worst enemy.

My own worst enemy.

Lifes foul teachery.

My own worst enemy.

Dams of emotion build

A dull and turbid screen,

Cloudlike veils of black

In jungles of hopes oppressed.

So many times,

For no reason.

So many promised punches,

For what reason?

Ceaseless decay,

Parallel obscene and flagrant.

Ceaseless decay,

Restrained my mind coils.

So many times,

For no reason.

So many promised punches,

For what reason?

Ceaseless decay,

Parallel obscene and flagrant.

Ceaseless decay,

Restrained my mind coils.

My mailbox is about 2-3 hundred yards form my house and lately, in an effort to curb my uneasiness, I have been walking the dogs down there and back up the hill. With that, Mr. Pickles and I bid you farewell, but do stay tuned for the next post which will give you hope, as  far as what the younger generation is doing with their music.