15 December 2021

Nuff Said, NØ Sez - A Naterock Sampler Part 7...the Conclusion

 

About this time, the music scene in San Jose was changing. No more shows of touring bands at the Scottish Rite hall, the first wave of S.J. punk band like Los Olvidados (who broke up before releasing anything but a few compilation tracks) & Ribzy (with only one split w/Grim Reality & one EP on Rob Farmer's Vinehell Records) were on the decline, the St. Francis Hotel stopped locals night, & then the Laundry Works closed. 

 



 

The music scene moved into the clubs along South First Street like Marsugis & the Cactus Club. The Dinuba Embassy (upstairs from L'Amour porn shop) started having parties on the roof with bands like the FuckBoys, The ByProducts & other up-&-coming locals & S.F. acts. South First Street became the SOFA district. The music scene just exploded for a few joyous years. I spent a great deal of time there, got to know a tight-knit cadre of punkers, was made Ambassador-at-large for the Dinuba Embassy. Soon the local scene & local music was my life. 

 



'Zines were becoming prevalent in the underground music world & by late 87 I had decided to start EAT POOP! Our mascot was Farley Fly & he sniffed out the best POOP! (slang for information) coming out & we wrote about it. We did group music reviews with all the Ambassadors; bands were sending us their demos, tapes & CDs to get the word out; Food King, Mark Ritch, Frank Bella & Doc Anderson were the staff artists, & so it grew. 

 



 

We were in contact with other 'zines around the country, we got written up regularly in Factsheet Five, we started putting on shows at the local venues, & finally doing our own shebangs. The 14-band POOPapalooza show at the Works Gallery & the Clover Hall show are still legendary in the San Jose music footnote.



My life became filled with Black Dahlia & Lao as my anchor & the POOPsters as the wind in my sails, so this is as good a place to end as any. We worked the 'zine into the 90s & beyond. By then the internet was growing exponentially & music became a different animal than it had been in my formative music years. I hope you've found some music to enjoy on this protracted journey, & if not, you can just blame Jonder...this was his crazy idea (thank you, brother). 

 

K-Tel Records presents...Naterock Sampler, NØ Comps, 2021.
Vol. 7 - 1984 'til EAT POOP!/Nuff said 1984-1987
decryption codes in comments

Part One -
1984
Hüsker Dü - Turn on the News
Black Flag - No Deposit, No Return
The Minutemen - Corona (with a whole new meaning now)
Lee Perry - Mr Music
1985
Subhumans - Fade Away
The Nils - Freedom
The Pogues - Wild Cats of Kilkenny
The Fuzztones - Cinderella
Sonic Youth - Society is a Hole
Clan of Xymox - A Day
Public Image Limited - Rise

Part Two -
1986
Bad Brains - House of Suffering
Billy Idol - World's Forgotten Boy
African Head Charge - Release the Doctor
Skinny Puppy - Dig It
Concrete Blonde - Dance Along the Edge
Test Dept. - Fuckhead
Spacemen 3 - Rollercoaster
Throwing Muses - America (She Can't Say No)
That Petrol Emotion - Lifeblood
1987
The Tear Garden - The Center Bullet
Terence Trent D'Arby - Seven More Days
Renaldo & the Loaf - Dance for Somnambulists
Sly & Robbie - Fire (Ohio Players cover)
Opal - Soul Giver

Enjoy,


7 comments:

  1. Blame me, shame me, anyway you want me... this was a fabulous journey, with swell tunes.

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    1. No blame or shame, Jonder -- just gratitude for lighting the spark. This was an epic journey with great music that appears to be the soundtrack to many of our collective lives.

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    2. Sorry, everyone, but because of take-downs, there are now decryption codes.
      Pt 1
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      Pt 2
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  2. Another great collection of songs from the day, many of them MrDave Faves as well. As a zinester, I wonder if you ever came across my UCSB roommate and fellow Rawk Nerd zinester Jay Hinman who grew up in San Jose and moved to SF in 1990. He started the "Super Dope" fanzine and went on to do Dynamite Hemorrhage as well as some early music blogs; I have no doubt you too were at many shows together at the very least. My best high school friend, Steve Brown, also spent some time in San Jose in the late 80s and started a band ("Broom") with Eric Bloom while a student there but they may not have started playing gigs until they moved to SF in the 90s. Eric Bloom did the very cool, and well distributed, zine called "Great God Pan." If so, small world!

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  3. errr make that Erik Bluhm. I think he also had a radio show on a San Jose college station called "West Coast Fog" that continued as a podcast for some time. Maybe a little too far to the folk/psych/dead side of the spectrum for your tastes at the time however. Ima gonna shut up now

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  4. Both Links say that the file is no longer available :(

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