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Concert venue in downtown LA, it still exists but anytime I’ve been in the last five years it didn’t feel the same as it did when I went as a bleach blond 16 year old.
I would go three times a week, each for $5 a show, and feel so cool in this tiny brick warehouse and meeting weird people and developing crushes on random girls in the pit and getting stoned in the alley between sets (same alley that the cover of an old surf curse EP was shot in, for you real Heads).
I don’t live in LA anymore so I can’t really speak on what it’s like now, but some of my fondest teenage memories involve The Smell in some way
I would go three times a week, each for $5 a show, and feel so cool in this tiny brick warehouse and meeting weird people and developing crushes on random girls in the pit and getting stoned in the alley between sets (same alley that the cover of an old surf curse EP was shot in, for you real Heads).
I don’t live in LA anymore so I can’t really speak on what it’s like now, but some of my fondest teenage memories involve The Smell in some way
Feb 21, 2025
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😈im Thinking mainly of Summer Break here.
I woke up whenever I wanted to after a late night of watching cartoon networks adult swim which was pretty much just sexy anime back then interspersed with some music news and vibes. I drank a fuck ton of Coke Gold which I never see anymore but it‘s the caffeine free version.
I had keys to my apartment but no money so I’d take a walk and then come back home and watch more tv or draw and listen to my cd’s. I used my lunch money during the year to buy cds every other week from Best Buy or virgin records which was definitely the coolest it could have been in the early 2000’s - everything was red lighting and industrial steel and the Distiller’s first cd was $7. my parents sent me off to hang with some of their friends parents out of state and they let me have free reign over their golf cart and I’d drive around in it all day blasting NOFX and Crazytown and Alkaline Trio - definitely the reason all the boys wanted to hang on my golf cart that summer was the fact that I brought my battery operated boom box with me everywhere. The girls followed on their own carts and decided they didn’t like me even tho I always asked them to come hang.
When I got an older (2006?) and had more money I started getting loosies and beers at the corner store and would smoke and drink in the park with my friends and no one ever said anything to us. we snuck into MGMT in the park and did drugs under the trees and danced with glitter on our faces and stupid string bands around our foreheads.
There was this community garden in the East Village we went to a lot that had chickens in it so we called it Cock Park - they had a tree house we’d drink 40’s in and cackle until the park closed, then we’d move to the church yard.
I can’t stress enough how many underground music venues there were - none of them carded, all were illegal and all served jungle juice out of coolers. we got Fucked up, dude.
And the best of all was the fuckin house party. Someone’s rich parents were always out of town and we little assholes would swarm their teenager occupied brownstone like little monsters. Lots of drinking and drugs and sex all over the place. i Feel bad for the kids who had to clean their houses in the morning all hungover and stressing out.
But yeah, it was cool.
But yeah, it was cool.
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It was mere months before "Nevermind" would change the entire pop universe, sweeping away the hair bands, the bullshit, the last vestigial remnants of the 80s that came before like so many tumbleweeds.
THE SETLIST OMG: Aneurysm, Breed, Love Buzz, In Bloom, Stay Away, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, On a Plain, Sliver, I think Polly was the encore if I remember right (it was a long time ago).
Satyricon was a shitty, dumpy, dark little club (the CBGB of Portland basically) with smoke crusted ceilings and a permanent bad smell, I think it might have held 400 sweaty bodies, max? The venue handed out free bottles of champagne to celebrate new year and during the opening sets, a bunch of bottles had been thrown against the wall and broke -- Krist Novoselic came out onstage, swept away the glass, and played barefoot as he always did.
The year punk broke. It went mainstream. All my favorite noise/sounds were now headed to MTV and the radio and our little lives changed forever that night. (Supposedly Kurt met Courtney there so his did too, ha).
THE SETLIST OMG: Aneurysm, Breed, Love Buzz, In Bloom, Stay Away, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, On a Plain, Sliver, I think Polly was the encore if I remember right (it was a long time ago).
Satyricon was a shitty, dumpy, dark little club (the CBGB of Portland basically) with smoke crusted ceilings and a permanent bad smell, I think it might have held 400 sweaty bodies, max? The venue handed out free bottles of champagne to celebrate new year and during the opening sets, a bunch of bottles had been thrown against the wall and broke -- Krist Novoselic came out onstage, swept away the glass, and played barefoot as he always did.
The year punk broke. It went mainstream. All my favorite noise/sounds were now headed to MTV and the radio and our little lives changed forever that night. (Supposedly Kurt met Courtney there so his did too, ha).
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🎸i just went to my first punk show in my city, since a friend of mine’s band was playing and he invited me. it was at 8pm at a coffee shop, and i felt very out of place at first among these people who are so much more incredibly cool than me. then, the music started, and i realized that i was headbanging just like everyone else. girls asked me to hold their things when they went to mosh, and i helped people up off the floor when they fell in the pit. it was a very unifying experience and i met lots of real weirdos (which i love). highly recommend
Nov 10, 2024
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