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Guilty Face TPT

By cooch | Published 07/05/2011

Nice one here from groggyfroggy…

There aren’t too many 7″ releases from the early days of Boston hardcore, and I feel like this is the most underrated of the bunch. The Freeze really peaked with this release, the songs are absolutely shredding hardcore. I’ve seen a few of these test presses for sale, which is odd because I feel like Modern Method tests don’t ever turn up.

Side note: was the seller really not able to get the word TEST from the label into the photo?

DYS via Underdog

By cooch | Published 03/05/2011

Some nice auctions up courtesy of Russ from Underdog, aka onparole101.

Back in the late 80s/early 90s, my brother used to do a death metal zine and was always getting promos in the mail. Occasionally he’d give me a tape or two that he wasn’t into, and I’d trade them to my friend from high school’s older brother. In exchange, he’d let me take a record or two out of his old hardcore stuff, which he wasn’t all that into anymore. At some point he gave me his copy of Brotherhood, which at the time looked really cool, but I had no idea it was worth money. I didn’t find that out till at least 5 years later, luckily I didn’t trade it away or sell it in the interim. Strangely, this record NEVER turns up around Boston… I’m pretty sure it’s the X-Claim lp with the smallest number pressed (or maybe the worst distribution).

The much maligned second LP however, was a 99¢ staple at Newbury Comics for years, along with the 3rd SSD lp. It’s funny to see them for $20 in stores now on the odd occasion that they turn up.

more than the X’s on their hands!

By Josh | Published 01/06/2011

It seems as though DYS is back in action. When I saw them at the Gallery East Reunion Show a few months ago Dave Smalley said that it was a one time thing that they were playing, but aparantly that was not enough for the rest of the guys because they just played 2 more shows, one in Boston as part of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones 2010 Hometown Throwdown and one in NYC with Antidote.

When I was in NYC for the Sheer Terror show last month there was a HUGE video monitor behind the stage and during the opening bands sets they were playing rotating ads for other shows and I got to take a picture of Vinny Stigma with a huge DYS logo behind him which I thought was kind of funny.

Anway… I present to you an auction from unholybloodlust for the often laughed at SECOND DYS record featuring D. Christian Smalley on vocals!

bonus: on the Thorp Records message board we were talking about the first DYS show and Paul Bearer commented in to say “Ask him where his gecko is” and if you’ve ever seen the pictures on the back of this LP you know why that is hysterical!!

DYScography

By Josh | Published 11/06/2010

Its no secret that I carry the banner of Boston Hardcore pretty hard. I love NY bands, Detroit bands, DC bands, Cali bands, Texas bands etc, but theres just something about the Boston sound that hooked me right from the start and being so close I got to see more of those bands and it just became MY hardcore. Its also no secret that Slapshot is my favorite band, but I also really love me some DYS!

Wolfpack was the first DYS record I ever had back in 9th or 10th grade and I loved the real hardcore songs like True Till Death and Wolfpack, but I also loved the funny stuff like the Iron Man cover and the Rub-a-Dub song.

Not long after Wolfpack my friend Liam got ahold of ‘the 2nd DYS record’ which seemed questionable just by looking at the band photos on the back. I mean, D. Christian Smalley with a lizard on this shoulder?!

These days if you have any interest at all in hearing the 2nd record you may as well track down a copy of the ‘Fire & Ice’ record. I remember when Taang! put this out because they did some merch that had a cool crossed arms/Xed up fists graphic on it. This is the Dutch version of the LP that Taang! licensed to Roadrunner in the early 90′s.

I actually didnt really find out about the Brotherhood record until I started collecting hardcore records. I don’t have a copy of it, but it is on my list of things that I hope to get in the future!

Last but not least here is a funny little bonus item. Jonathan Anastis had these printed up for the ‘Gallery East Reunion Show’ on August 14th of this year. I HOPE that Jonathan had them printed up because he thought it was funny, but its possible that he just took it a little to seriously. Theres also a lot of irony in the fact that its got Straight Edge imagery on both sides and to the best of my knowledge the 2010 version of DYS didnt have one straight edge guy in the band. Oh… how the mighty have fallen!

This is Boston, No SSD!

By Josh | Published 07/23/2010

An awesome record and an cool story from nuttymad who we know was a member of SSD.

He explains that SSD was asked to be on the comp, but they didnt like the name ‘This is Boston, Not LA’ becuase it made it sound like there was a competition between the cities, which he says there was not. So it was the name of the record that caused SSD to make the decision not to be on it. Oddly enough, the seller ended up being in the photo used for the cover!

I’m not sure if this is the yellow label or the blue label, but if I get an anser I’ll add it in!

*edit: labels are light blue

BOY’S LIFE vs. OUTLETS split 7″ (boston punk v.5)

By cooch | Published 04/16/2010

Early (1980) release on Modern Method before the hardcore onslaught that hit a couple years later. Both sides are poppy, garagey punk, with the Outlets winning out with their classic cut “Knock Me Down Again”, which is said to be the song that inspired slam dancing in Boston. They even have a few songs (not on this record though) that were in the proto-hardcore vein, which they still play live these days. As mentioned in the auction, Outlets drummer Walter Gustafson (any relation to Stand Hard?) went on to join Gang Green (who he still currently plays with) and the Freeze, and the guy is one of the best and fastest hardcore drummers I have ever seen play. Also Springa from SSD was the Outlets roadie, so it’s cool to see where some of these old HC freaks got their start.