The 2nd release by MINUTEMEN is entitled joy and that pretty much sums up everything. It’s joyful, a bit lighter and more accessible than “Paranoid Time”,the band’s first EP. More MINUTEMEN here and here.
Today would have been the 52. birthday of D. Boon, the band’s much too early deceased guitarist.
Three songs in three minutes , a three minutes write-up from my side and thirty minutes of work all in all. Pretty neat.
Joy.mp3
Black Sheep.mp3
More Joy.mp3
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What’s not to like about the Minutemen? When they played in Munich as support of Black Flag in February 1983 in the Löwenbräukeller (I’m not kidding you!) my friend Julian went to the lou after their set and while he was peeing D. Boon stepped up to the next stall, started peeing, too, and made small talk. He asked my friend if he liked the show. Julian was a little shit back then, so he replied: No, I fucking hated it. D. was taken aback and asked: So, what kind of music do you like. And Julian replied: Foreigner and REO Speedwagon! and stepped out of the restroom. True story.
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Erich, find the mistake in your sentence about d.boons birthday and then repent, sinner, repent!!!
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Admin Reply:
April 1st, 2010 at 18:14
Whatcha mean, Ringo?
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ringo reblaus Reply:
April 1st, 2010 at 18:16
D.Boon played six strings, not four!
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Admin Reply:
April 1st, 2010 at 18:26
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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the only blog in the whole wide interweb which would post diamond head / headcleaners / breaker / minutemen in a row. you totally rule.
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man this rocks. i’m trying to get everything these guys put out. funny thing i always thought they were a streightup hc band because they played with black flag. i actually heard the less hc stuff first and i was so happy they weren’t just another boring hc band that i went out and got double nickels that very same day! this band is just different but not in a bad way. thanks for this.
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mike watt still plays around long beach ca quite a bit, still in the small clubs and bars.
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One of the best bands ever. Amen and goodbye.
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Great band too bad right wind racist group had to steal this name. Viva San Pedro!!!
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people who like to hear more minutemen and other new alliance records, sst records, cruz records… weirdness are inivted to come to our two next sst records dj evenings on friday, 28.5. in hamburg (bar “hasenschaukel”) and saturday, 29.5. in berlin (bar “wiener blut”).
stone from trust will play his sst favorites along with dj schippy on the same sst matter. also some clips and movies from sst bands.
we got a very flattering statement from mike watt directly concerning these two upcoming evenings as we asked him if he is maybe on tour in europe during that time. we are allowed to use that statement:
“this sounds like a righteous event I would love to be part of but music obligations here in my pedro town keep me from being able to be there so damn, my most sincere apologies… I’ll be there in spirit though!”
Mike Watt
why sst? read here (sorry, all in german, short in english: trust fanzine did a special issue about sst at the end of 2008 and now we wanna celebate sst till the last zoogs rift riff has been played, haha) about the background and our second sst evening in cologne in march this year: http://www.trust-zine.de/sst-records-abend-in-koln/
thanks.
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(@thomas: is that you, t.s., former trust writer ? did you get the trust book i send ya
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Peter said it better than I ever could about this one, the only word I would add is , important. Did want to say that the flexi you have “on heavy rotation” blew me away. Ordered that from the ads in Flipside or MRR, best $2 ppd I ever spent and can not even begin to describe the holy shit moment in listening to it the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th…to the present time. Doesn’t sound as good on CD. Thanx for the reminder.
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Didn’t know about this one.. I thought the best Minutemen was their first EP + LP, but Black Sheep is an instant favorite over here! Killer!
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minutemen changed my life.
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