yo dawgs and dawgettes and... everyone else, here is some of our fave flyers from back in the days. you will notice how goddamm important we are to this ridiculous bay area scene.
It is a little known fact, but SLOBBER was an integral part of the west bay hardcore scene. We supplied the underage girls, the other groups supplied the machismo we sorely lacked. But seriously, check out the "El Guapo" spilt on 625 Records or Slap-a-Ham's BLEEEEEAAAUURGH" comp if you want to see who we was down wit, it's fucking historical.
This was another flyer for the same show as above. I think Andy was on 25 doses of some bad acid this night. There's a good video out, that will be posted to this blog, of JP showing everyone his member. If ya know what we mean.
The Cupertino Library was the site of several infamous SLOBBER shows, most of which ended in the police raiding the place and us getting shut down. Makes you really want to book us now, eh? The real story here is the band that's crossed out on the flyer: Ragedy Anne - or that band now known as THE DONNAS. Back then they were just putting out seven inches locally and they were silly enough to put down their home address. We were silly enough to get a map, figure out where they lived and drive to their house and ask them if they wanted to play a show. They were silly enough to agree. We were silly enough to make a flyer with them on it and they pulled out of the show...last minute. LAST FAVOR WE DID FOR THEM...AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!
Another flyer from the Cupertino LIbrary days, this one with former member's of MOHINDER, calling themselves Jenny Piccolo. South Bay staple act the BARFOS (aka GODSTOMPER) played their brand of chaotic noise and all was well. The bottom right corner says "self disicpline" as the guys from the Cupertino Library really wanted all the Redwood City heads to not get wasted and set off the fire alarm like the show below....
Yep, the fire alarm going off was only the beginning at the Leechapalooza. MENJ10 aka SHEEP SQUEEZE played making this show one for the history books of Redwood City Dorkcore. AGENTS OF SATAN were still a 3 piece then and i think still wore black metal make up and Lord Ballsack was sporting his devil mask. Don't even get us started on the Fabulously Fanatastic Frying Farmers of Funk or those GREMIES.
Another Gilman show...I think this might be the one where a tuba player joined us on stage...
So after all our whining, Ragedy Anne aka THE DONNAS, did play a show with us. We repeatedly harassed them and their Stanford Football Team boyfriends making for some pretty memorable one liners during and after the show. ahhh...Good Times.
Our friend Morgan used to live in this super remote house in LaHonda and offered us a show at the biggest party thrown of the year. We came, we saw, we kicked some ass. Then members of the Shedwellaz commandeered our microphones while we provided the music to their freestyle raps. Well over 300 people were in attendance and this party is still spoken of today.More local flyers and stories of our legendary performances to come!
oh man, there was that one epic show slobber played at the old mission records with human beans and i think 50 million or maybe miami, anyway yer not on the flyer cuz i think what happened was my girlfriend at the time had set this show up and about a week before i was like "hey we really wanna do a show with our friends slobber can they jump on." or something to that effect. anyway, totally look forward to seeing you guys again cuz i only have the vaguest memories of all those shows in the 90s.
ReplyDeletei forgot to mention that part of what made the show so epic was all the assholes you guys brought from redwood who destroyed the place, long before it was used to being destroyed. oh and now i remember that the spawn sacs from florida and queen cobra (a bit of trivia, they were laurie sue from ludicra's old band) also played that show and it wasn't 50 million or miami it was that other band ivy was in with erica from lost goat and janis tanaka who now tours with the pop star pink. okay.
ReplyDeleteThe fire alarm was set off at the Exhumed / Spazz / Agents show at Cupertino library. I think it was set off during Agents or Pale Existence. The fire dept and police showed up while Exhumed was setting up and wouldn't let any bands load out until EVERYONE who wasn't in a band left the show. In the parking lot FRank announced that the show was moving to Chestnut Spot (!!!!) and Agents and Spazz played at Chestnut. Some guy that no one knew followed us from Cupertino to RWC and filmed it. There is footage somewhere.
ReplyDeletefuck man all these flyers remind me of the good ole days... loved seeing shows at the cupertino library and at the palo alto teen center... i still have that shedwellaz flyer and i was at that show... ragedyanne recorded their first 7" during my radio show at kzsu in studio b. i still have a copy. story was, i was at a show in pa, and recorded it on a mini cassette recorder... a fellow dj at kzsu was looking to put out an all female band so i gave him the tape... he played it on the air and said if you know who this is call the station... they heard it called, and the rest is history. fucking weird. - organdonor ex-kzsu dj
ReplyDeleteDid you forget about MAD MAN JOSE!! the Slobber cover band that drove all the way from VISALIA!!? That party had more than 900 people. over the course of the night. I found so many drugs the next day with Tommy. (and took em all before he got any too!) (BURN) hah hehahaee.. We found abandoned kegs. Other parties sparked up in the woods in peoples houses. Babies were conceived and aborted from the booze. No COPS!! All Based upon a glorious lie. I told people I was buying beer. (Ididn't) when there was only a hidden keg that got stolen.. I made the purpatrator get !! haha 2 KEGS!! and the cycle began. There were many many bands that played that night. New genras of music were formed. People came from LA Oakland Humboldt. SF SJ PA MP RWC SC .. everywhere. My dad took pics. There are some great ones. Mostly of hot chicks drinking beer and dudes giving the double thumbs up. The party broke up when my MOM came home!! (we had told her there was something wrong at her her work and she had better go check it out..) I have never seen 500 people run for their lives so quick. (wussies). sorry mom. Yu got PLAYED SUKKA!! Yea. That was one for the ages alrite.- I still. ? over a decade later. ? almost 15 years ?!! later. TO this DAY. get props for that.- THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ATTENDED. Fyi.. that was PORTOLA VALLEY Nukkas.-
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