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Hi. This is yet another MP3 blog. I decided to do this after seeing/reading a lot of other MP3 blogs but none of them focusing on punk and hardcore from the 1990's.

For me, the 1990's were a revival of sorts. I got into punk in 1983 or so, but lost touch with current bands when I went away to college in 1988. I realize that's sort of backwards from what happens to most people. But I went to college in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina.

Anyway, around 1993 or 1994, my friends did two things that changed my life. They asked me to play drums in their band Blownapart Bastards. Their drummer was leaving for a year to go to school in Scotland. I said, “Yes.” I had seen them play a few times before we were friends. Blownapart Bastards were exciting, political, and most of all, sounded punk as fuck. After seeing Blownapart perform I realized that you didn’t have to be a band like the Descendents, 7 Seconds, or the Dead Kennedys to be punk, and made a conscious decision to make friends with them. 

The other thing they did was they started having punk shows at their house, aka Dick St. At Dick St. I got to see bands like Dillinger Four, Indian Summer, Deadguy, and Los Crudos. I would go to every show and buy records from band I liked. Then we went on tour! I bought more records, saw more bands, etc… Since then I’ve traveled the world, recorded and release records of my own, I even ran my own record label briefly. I’m so lucky that I found a way to do all that.