Spazz Records Reborn!!!!

Hey!! Its been awhile since I have posted. I opened my record store back up and no longer feel the need to blabber on this here blog as much since I can do it to peoples faces now. Come visit POPshop and Spazz Records here:

http://popshopspazz.blogspot.com/

Or, if you just happen to be cruising across I-20 through Louisiana, we are right off the highway:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS365US365&q=spazz+records+west+monroe%2C+la&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Cya later!

Ebay Misfits Record

Being a record nerd, I kept an eye on this Ebay auction just out of curiosity. This record below is the only 10" Misfits record that exists, they decided to release a full 12" record instead, naming it Horror Business.




Oh yeah, it sold for a measly $3,751.01!!!!

Dio vs. Carla from Cheers

Guest Post: Vegan Loves Metal

Hello br00tal readers! This is a cross-post from the unmetalest place ever, Pixiepine vegan blog. I've put on a hold on sunshine, daisies, and the like today to bring you so super evil sweets and treats.

Hail Seitan! Many dark and defiant vegans enjoy the subversive meat substitute that is seitan. Seitan is actually a very delicious food sometimes caled "wheat meat." It can be made like chicken, beef, etc. to bring a forceful presence to all your hard-hitting recipes. Vegans also wear their love like metal fans do:

Vegans also get in on that DIY spirit! The best vegan food comes from recipes in cookzines!
Please Don't Feed The Bears, Soy Not Oi, Hot Damn & Hell Yeah/The Dirty South!

Another very integral part of food blogging and the vegan world is cupcakes!! Much like underground musicians, some vegans want nothing less than world domination.
Check out these very metal treats from some innovative bloggers!

The Black Oven: Immaculate confections succumbed to northern darkness is a blog featuring all manner of dark and delicious baked goods.

Check out Le Petit Gateau, which Megan describes as "baneful in their absolute disdain for your tastelessness, and...misanthropes as far as baked goods go." Excellent!!

Here's a link to Metalcakes done by Kathy Bejma. This blogger is truly inpspired! A little press on Metalcakes is here.

Maybe not so metal, but still kinda rock-n-roll are these KISS cupcakes from Clever Cupcakes.



Thanks for reading! I'll leave you with Heavy Metal Cooking's Episode, Seitan with Satan.

Pacific Northwest Record Shopping Part 2

The second part of these inane record nerd posts has us going up the Pacific Northwest. First stop is Olympia, home of many bands my wife loves. The first place we spotted was...

Phantom City Records




Small but good record store. Picked up an awesome record I had lost along the way:





They also had the entire catalog of Insect Warfare on vinyl, but I settled for this 7" since I haven't heard it:




If you find yourself at Phantom, walk around the corner to this place, it was fantastic:



Next, we took a boat from Seattle to Victoria, BC and right across the street from our hotel was:







Wow, records are expensive in Victoria. New records are easily from $25-$40 dollars. Not quite sure how that works with the exchange rate and all, but I don't think it makes that big of a difference. I got lucky though and found this used for $10 and a couple other items:






which complimented this 7" I had ordered from Dr. Strange Records a couple months back. Its an awesome punk relic!

Back in Seattle, we were headed to check out Sonic Youth and The Gossip at the Capitol Hill Block Party when HOLY COW! another ...

This one wasn't as good as the Portland store, but I was still stoked as I found a Jon Spencer 7" I had never heard.

We kept walking around and ran into this store, which was just mind blowing in its metal-ness:

They had Slayer, like Haunting the Chapel-Slayer blasting from the speakers and a crap load of metal metal metal vinyl. It was too much, I was too broke and too tired. That store totally was the bomb, but I had to get out of there.

Record Nerd

My wife and I went on a birthday/honeymoon/vacation to the West Coast and I got in some heavy duty record shopping. Before we left I wetted my whistle by pre-ording this:

Purple? Hell no! Its gotta be green vinyl for Municpal Waste!

First we flew into Portland and we stayed two blocks away from this this place:

...Which is open from 9am to midnight!!!! Holy smokers was this place HUGE, I mean Amoeba huge. I went there everyday I was in Portland (actually, I went twice in one day) to check their New Arrival bin which was catorgorized by day. They also had the biggest collection of punk 7" I have ever seen and they were mostly $1 a piece! Woah!

I picked up this:

and a bunch of 7" records. Since they were just a $1, I got anything that grabbed my attention, but was pretty stoked to find Destroy, Snuff, Strawman, and a Blanks 77/Submachine split with Dwarves covers. On the Blanks side its got a picture of their bass player and says Featuring: Hewhocannotplaybass. Nice.

Their website says "Portland, Oregon's Finest Selection of New and Used Records, CDs and Collectables" Which is fine and dandy I guess, but I couldn't find a single thing to buy. Maybe its just the location but everything was expensive. I went there twice even and left empty handed both times.

Down the street though is Crossroads. Another huge store and the coolest thing was the old flyers of past shows on the ceiling. I'm a big Poison Idea fan, so I was stoked to see their flyers.

Next was Music Millenium, another huge record store. Its absolutley nuts how much vinyl there is in Portland and I never even had time to go to the other four record stores it has.

Their new arrivals were picked through pretty good, but I did find this for $5!

And my wife bought this:

Next post will have Olympia, Seattle and Victoria, BC record shops. If you are interested in more of our trip, you can look at my wifes blog here: http://cuppapixie.blogspot.com/

Vegan Up Yo Ass!

This post was originally for my wife's vegan blog here: http://cuppapixie.blogspot.com/

Hi Pixiepiners! I’ve been slowly educating Leslie on the most important subjects known to mankind and that is the history of punk/metal/hardcore. Sure she already had a fantastic taste in music and who would want to marry a woman that DIDN’T know every word and nuance of Bikini Kill’s “Suck My Left One?” Not me buddy, I ain’t no fool! Although she had some blank gaps in her musical knowledge when it came to “wind milling” and “breakdowns”, it’s just because she, unlike myself, has a more mature and intelligent taste in music. Well, except for Peaches, haha.

Leslie was unawares of the vegan movement in punk and hardcore and so I was showing her stuff on the Interbot one night and how even some metal dudes were all up in it. I offered to do a blog post for her and here it is. Now this is in no way Jose a definitive history or even factual, haha, so take it for it is. Come climb into the time machine as I set the dial to 1986…

Youth of Today

As far as I know, they were the first band to put vegetarianism into hardcore punk. I still love this video!! It’s so corny and hilarious and I still dig the music! Check out the T-shirts in it: Insted, Judge, SSD, Bold. Haha, I love it. NO MOOOOOOOOORE! BMX Youth Crew!! When I was a kid I had to tape a copy of this album off my friends record player and his record player always played everything too fast and I listened to that tape a million times and I still can’t get used to how it really sounds. So just in case you’re not old and getting crusty, like me, or have decent musical sensibilities and never listened to this junk, the singers name is Ray of Today and he went on to start Hare Krishna-core with a band called Shelter. It was a huge deal back in the day with religion getting involved in punk and MaximumRocknRoll had a 1,000 page article and everyone was arguing “scene politics” and crap. We went to go see Shelter play when they came to town and Ray told us about his stance against violence and told us he was now against slam dancing and stage diving. Then he tried to make all of us testosterone fueled teenagers take off our combat boots and sit cross-legged throughout the performance. My memory is a little fuzzy but of course he got heckled relentlessly by the crowd and my sister pegged him with a bottle or something, she had pegged an onstage Ian McKay with Chap Stick around that same time as well, I might be getting it mixed up. My friend Nigel told me that we ran into Ray of Today in London years later when I was living over there and I must’ve had too many pints as I can’t remember that at all, but he said I was nice to him though. I wish I still had my Youth of Today shirt…

No More
Meat eating flesh eating think about it
so callous to this crime we commit
always stuffing our face with no sympathy
what a selfish, hardened society so
No More
just looking out for myself
when the price paid is the life of something else
No More
i won't participate
we've got the power we've got the might
to take whatever is in sight
not even worried, it's an unfair fight
well we've got a heart to tell us what's right
our numbers are doubling in 88
cause the people are starting to educate
themselves their friends and their families
and we'll have a more conscious society



Another more popular vegan underground band in the 90’s that sang about veganism and influenced thousands of kids to kick the meat were Earth Crisis. I had heard their song Gomorrah's Season Ends and knew I had to go see them when I lived in San Francisco as I had been hearing about the East Coast militant straight edgers and plus they were playing with Madball who the singer is the brother of the singer in Agnostic Front who I saw sing one song when Agnostic played with Suicidal Tendencies and he brought down the house. Ok, I am rambling.. so anywho.. Madball were great and then Earth Crisis does their slow brooding thing and the pit is warming up when someone gets in the pit and unloads a bottle of mace on everyone and fights break out and the show is officially screwed up. If I remember right I think they battled through it all and got through a whole set. I didn’t really think San Francisco would be ready for NYHC in the 90s anyways. Econochrist was about as hardcore as the scene got back then.




Seitan Worship!

Carcass and Napalm Death

Both British metal bands are legendary in metal and they are vegan! Actually I think only a couple dudes in Napalm are vegan and the others are vegetarians.




These were the first two metal bands that I had heard about being vegan. There’s a lot more now as you can imagine, and there is actually a list here: http://music.vegan.fr/

Cattle Decapitation are one of the more outspoken metal vegan activist bands around these days.



I even saw that Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy is up for Peta’s “World’s Sexiest Celeb Vegetarian 2009”



Well thanks for taking the time to read my post, I hope that some of you were like Leslie and never heard of this stuff and maybe found it interesting or entertaining. My blog is http://whoaskedya.blogspot.com/ if you want to come over and visit.