I have a message: Save your generation.
Posted by Chopstick Sensei
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whateves on April 5th, 2008 @ 8:37 pm
Jabberjaw, circa ‘95ish. Photo by someone in Jawbreaker.
I was in the back somewhere. Damn, sweet memories.
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Dude! I was at this show as well. I was on the side, of the stage. I actually remember Blake taking this photo… and if memory serves correctly Tanner opened for them.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane
I miss shows like this. The latest shows I’ve been to are nothing like this.
Jabberjaw was a scary venue. 13 years ago.
The jabberjaw was my all time favorite venue followed closely by the PCH club. Why isn’t going to shows dangerous anymore? thats where all the awesome happened. Anybody remember the alligator lounge? that place was pretty amazingly dicey too.
Your right, all the venues I used to go to were either far away or sketchy. I just drove by the PCH Club yesterday. I didn’t even recognize the building. I shed a lot of sweat in that gross, dingy venue.
Does anyone remember The Smell, Toe Jams, Koo’s or the Empire Club? They are all gone too.
I just heard last week the the city of Corona is shutting down The Showcase Theater.
Let me ask this question… where do all the bands play now?
The smell is still around, it just moved downtown, but it still has shows. All the punk bands play at the knitting factory in hollywood these days. The PCH CLUB, had some of the best shows of my youth (tight bros from way back when with Unwound) and I’ll never forget Beard sitting on Daniel’s face with his bare ass. Huntington Beach Library and Koo’s Cafe also had a memorable existence.
Kids these days have about 10x the music collection yet will never have the music community that was spawned by shitty, I mean DIY venues. Come see my band pay to play Chain Reaction, bro.
chain reaction was THE WORST. Oh god. and btw, who didn’t witness a stabbing at the Showcase? Everyone I know who is from here has seen someone get stabbed there. When I think of all the great shit I saw at the huntington beach library I cry a single tear.
I didn’t see a stabbibng at showcase, but I was at both stabbings (Vandals and Ignite) at the Ice House in Fullerton. I also got burned by a huge Cigar from a skin head that night. Was anyone at the show where they threw a dead fish in the mosh pit?
“We’re killing each other by sleeping in”
2 things stand out in that photo: 1 - no whacked out hair. We kept it clean back then. 2 - nobody trying too hard. There wasn’t a Hot Topic to tell us what was cool. I grew up in Florida, and we got to see more than our fair share of great shows, mostly because bands didn’t want to freeze their ass off during the winters when they toured.
My 3 stand outs:
Fugazi on the “in on the kill taker” tour in 91 when we ran out of gas on the beach, got some gas money from some kids we had to then drive to the show and then watched in horror as they kept the lights on the ENTIRE show because the skins were destroying people in the pit.
Rancid in ‘93 when they played Channel Zero (which is now an Italian Restaurant). Its a HOT night in July and they are playing a completely sold out show (about 400 peeps) and they have on the leather jackets, braces and jeans the entire show. Its so hot INSIDE that there’s condensation on the OUTSIDE of the windows of the club, I think i puked as soon as I walked out of the show.
Seeing Sense Field & Texas is the reason at The Refuge in 94. The Refuge was a christian homeless shelter, so the show was at 4. They kicked the kids out and let the bums and transients in at 6.
i am damn old.
Most of these people are not on Whateves, but I can name a handful of the kids up front: Sarah Scherer, Steve O, Mike Burton, Anthony Lukens, Matt Guy, Matt Guy’s older brother, Cody Cho, Jim Slay… I dunno who else, but maybe if they google their names they’ll find this someday.
I think sarah Scherer’s sister Molly still works at Golden Spoon at Ocean Ranch.