Real Screamo gear

[Ancient Astronaught]

Oh yea I forgot about CD Cellar out in Arlington, I've played there a few times/my friends play there a ton. Could do all ages stuff there.

They sparsely have shows anymore there, yet again got shut down my the cops for noise ordinance and underage drinking in the parking lot.

DC and NOVA cops do not like anything that gathers groups of teenagers, even if its to entertain them and keep them out of trouble for the night....

[Strange Tales]

Oh yea I forgot about CD Cellar out in Arlington, I've played there a few times/my friends play there a ton. Could do all ages stuff there.

They sparsely have shows anymore there, yet again got shut down my the cops for noise ordinance and underage drinking in the parking lot.

DC and NOVA cops do not like anything that gathers groups of teenagers, even if its to entertain them and keep them out of trouble for the night....

well fucking god damn hell. yea i don't know then.

i don't know how it took this long for CD Cellar to get shut down. whenever i played i'd stare at the people walking by and smile at them when they stopped to look in while hitting my bass.

[BoatRich]

DC9 is also all ages most of the time even though they have a bar? That place is really hard to book though. I have no clue why there aren't small all ages venues, the house shows issue is because the cops in DC and VA have cracked down on them hard due to entertainment tax/"underage drinking"

After the bouncers killed that one guy DC9 is no longer all ages from what I understand. I know a guy who books out of there so I can get shows booked there if I wanted too. Emphasis on the WANTED too. Those stairs man... those god damn stairs.... same with Velvet Lounge and the Pinch. I hate DC stairs....

They killed a dude? Holy shit. Also as far as CD Cellar goes, Nat (the person who books) is a friend and they do rad stuff, but like Skip said they barely ever do stuff anymore.

[Ancient Astronaught]

Yeah man almost 5 years ago:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime- ... ged-i.html

[daseb]

Man DC bands! Like if we're naming stuff that's well outside screamo (Damnation AD were so rad), shit...Nation of Ulysses are basically the best band in the world. Hoover. Q and Not U. Black Eyes. When I was a teenager I'd go to the record store and listen to basically everything that had the Dischord logo on it and was rarely let down there.

Stop it: whatever was cheapest. At the end one dude had a strat with one pickup/volume knob and the other a SG. Adams live bass tone was cheap basses (olp, epi thunderbird) into various acoustic heads that he would crank until they blew up then just buy another one into an acoustic 4x15 that I think Parker from cough now owns. Bass tone on the record was apparently line 6?! The bass sound on that record is to die for.

I thought the bass player was using a 370 when Self Made Maps came around and was using that for good? I can't imagine someone actually being able to blow a 370 up.

At various points a 370, 450 and maybe even 220? Adam was by all reports not a gear dude at all and would just buy whatever was cheapest, so, you know, I can see him destroying an already slightly wrecked head in that situation.

PS I blew a 370 up once

But according to the dude who recorded the album, it's all Line 6 bass pod. I know, right?

Stop It bass tone is like an obsession for me.

[casecandy]

Fucking Hot Cross. I have been arguing with Space Ritual about the merits of Hot Cross for like three years now.

And you are on which side of the debate?

[daseb]

pretty sure there's three sides to that hot cross debate. For, against, and 'for up until I heard the first bit of singing on cryonics and made a face like I'd just bitten into a lemon'.

[casecandy]

Ooh I like Cryonics though

[WORMDIRT]

pretty sure there's three sides to that hot cross debate. For, against, and 'for up until I heard the first bit of singing on cryonics and made a face like I'd just bitten into a lemon'.

[daseb]

honestly Cryonics is a record I'll put on just to listen to the guitar playing, which isn't something I can say about many other records. Just, you know, New Set of Lungs was a total mind melter when it came out (and this is coming from someone who hated Saetia when they were around and thought Billy sounded like a constipated duck), then they followed it up with an album that was all dick and no balls, kind of a let down. I heard that last record with the Myles Karr art is really good though? Never checked anything out they did past Cryonics.

[Strange Tales]

pretty sure there's three sides to that hot cross debate. For, against, and 'for up until I heard the first bit of singing on cryonics and made a face like I'd just bitten into a lemon'.

FUCK NOT LEST YE BE FUCKED.

I liked Risk Revival more than Cryonics, but the real answer is that Off Minor was infinitely better in every single way.

Stop it: whatever was cheapest. At the end one dude had a strat with one pickup/volume knob and the other a SG. Adams live bass tone was cheap basses (olp, epi thunderbird) into various acoustic heads that he would crank until they blew up then just buy another one into an acoustic 4x15 that I think Parker from cough now owns. Bass tone on the record was apparently line 6?! The bass sound on that record is to die for.

I thought the bass player was using a 370 when Self Made Maps came around and was using that for good? I can't imagine someone actually being able to blow a 370 up.

At various points a 370, 450 and maybe even 220? Adam was by all reports not a gear dude at all and would just buy whatever was cheapest, so, you know, I can see him destroying an already slightly wrecked head in that situation.

PS I blew a 370 up once

But according to the dude who recorded the album, it's all Line 6 bass pod. I know, right?

Stop It bass tone is like an obsession for me.

Damn that's impressive to blow up a 370. Also how is that a Line 6 bass pod, I feel like everything I know is a lie now.

[Ancient Astronaught]

Man DC bands! Like if we're naming stuff that's well outside screamo (Damnation AD were so rad), shit...Nation of Ulysses are basically the best band in the world. Hoover. Q and Not U. Black Eyes. When I was a teenager I'd go to the record store and listen to basically everything that had the Dischord logo on it and was rarely let down there.

Stop it: whatever was cheapest. At the end one dude had a strat with one pickup/volume knob and the other a SG. Adams live bass tone was cheap basses (olp, epi thunderbird) into various acoustic heads that he would crank until they blew up then just buy another one into an acoustic 4x15 that I think Parker from cough now owns. Bass tone on the record was apparently line 6?! The bass sound on that record is to die for.

I thought the bass player was using a 370 when Self Made Maps came around and was using that for good? I can't imagine someone actually being able to blow a 370 up.

At various points a 370, 450 and maybe even 220? Adam was by all reports not a gear dude at all and would just buy whatever was cheapest, so, you know, I can see him destroying an already slightly wrecked head in that situation.

PS I blew a 370 up once

But according to the dude who recorded the album, it's all Line 6 bass pod. I know, right?

Stop It bass tone is like an obsession for me.

Dude.... dude.... fuckin Nation of Ulysses?!?!?! I only heard of them from a random ass mix tape I found but HO LEE SHIT. That band was FUCKING AMAZING, kind of like Proto-hardcore to me. I'm very very VERY picky about vocalists I like, but him? Fucking unreal. Since I found them on a mixtape I had no idea how big of a band they are or anything about them, my mind is blown that someone else knows who they are. In all fairness I have never googled them to find out so I'm completely blind to them...

*edit* 5 minutes and a google search later and realize how stupid I am.... I had no idea how influential they were, or how big they were. I feel like a derp...

[Strange Tales]

I don't know, if someone told me they didn't like 13 Point Program to Destroy America I don't think I could be friends with them.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I don't know, if someone told me they didn't like 13 Point Program to Destroy America I don't think I could be friends with them.

We can be friends!!! YAY!!

[rainlet]

Dischord's one of those labels that are great because you can generally pick up anything they put out and know it's going to be good, but Nation of Ulysses was really (in my opinion) the best thing that ever came out on there. I'm really torn between Plays Pretty For Baby and 13 Point Program, I've never been able to pick which one i liked best.