If you like ‘power violence’ or 90s DIY hardcore in general, then you are most likely already very familiar with SPAZZ. I was probably the world’s biggest (and most annoying) SPAZZ fanboy in high school, but in my defense I feel like I had good reason. They were essentially the blueprint for everything I cover on this site, mixing brutal music with dumb inside jokes, and sprinkling in graffiti, hip hop, skateboarding, and streetwear– extremely advanced material for 1994! And on a srs note, they were all incredibly nice guys who tolerated what I can only assume were a lot of dumb questions from the 15 year-old Sergeant D, which was really cool of them and I appreciate very much.
The entire “Dwarf Jester Rising,” which is my personal favorite SPAZZ release. WORSHIP OR POSE.
Seems like this is as good a place as any to post this, my favorite song from the incredibly underrappreciated EMETIC. Dat cover art, so advanced o__o
This one is extra long, but SPAZZ is one of my favorite bands of all time and Dan is a very interesting dude to talk to so I think it’s definitely justified and turned out really well. We chatted about what Dan’s up to these days, 90s hip hop and graffiti, some forgotten West Bay bands like RADIOACTIVE LUNCH and EMETIC, and I asked him to explain a few of the stories behind SPAZZ classics like “Thrice The Hiney,” “Box” and ” and “Hairfarmer.” (PS I was wrong, “Gnome Servant” is not rly an instrumental, I had it mixed up with “Precision Fastening”)
Thanks to Dan for everything– holler at him on Twitter and remember: if you wanna step to OAK, be prepared cuz we’ll take no shit!!
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Spaz: better than your band.
Or ‘Spazz’ as the case may be. >__<
Cant wait to hear it. Dan posts on a forum that I read. Seems cool as hell.
He’s a Sockeye fan too, how could anyone hate on that?
This is ur most epic podcast yet, fucking flawless.
I knew it was just a matter of time b4 Neil Nordstrom & Don Kim were mentioned on SYWH, as they’re the epitome of IMN-collector nerds. I was “phased-out” of working @ blackmetal.com after I put “you suave bastard” in the tracking # of Neil’s order (prolly Immortal picture-discs & Mercyful Fate demo bootlegs).
It’s too bad You didn’t get his thoughts on how much we all hated Yohannen.
What’s IMN? I’m a collector nerd, not a texting nerd.
I actually remember that packing slip. I thought Eldon did it.
I have nothing but respect for Tim Yo although I’ve heard ridiculous rumors about my quitting MRR. MRR was the internet before the fucking internet.
internet metal nerd
Haaaaah, that’s so rad teh “Earl of Suave” reads SYWH! Neil frequently came to shows str8 from work, in a suit & tie (sometimes a Members-Only jacket), cutting a path of suave-ness through the sea of crust-mehtul-doofus’. All your satisfactory orders were filled by me Neil, If they were incorrect then that was either Mr. Hate (Noothgrush) or Brandon (Bone Awl). I remember @ one point Elden (or Brandon) & I reworked a Necrophagia logo to say “Nordstrom”, we were going to pitch an office-appropriate cologne to you (prolly Perry Ellis Gray Flannel, def NOT Drakkar Noir). I hate to bum u out but I packed everyone’s (troo-kvlt) Black Metal orders for YEARS while only listening to Angry Aryans, the Mentors, 18 Visions, Hatebreed, Throwdown, Morrissey/Smiths, Fischerspooner, Ladytron & TONS of NarcoCorrido’s (ok maybe some Angelcorpse or Blasphemy).
I prefer to think of MRR as a “how-to manual for butthurt fggts incapable of independent thought” but then again I’m the dude who came to Epicenter to play pool, not listen to Neurosis or Antisect or whatever shitty communist-scabies-dog-on-a-rope-panhandler band most MRR “volunteers” were championing… (no FLOMO)
If Jim Mack is a SYWH reader I will eat my hat. If you see Don Kim tell him I said 당신이 가운데서 하나님 왕따!
Don’t ever stop being suave Neil, and if u want to buy like, 1,000,000 “Dawn of the Blackhearts” picture discs I can totes hook ur IMN-collector nerd ass upp!
This is my favourite nustej comment ever for so many reasons
Makes me very nostalgic for the vacuum/epicenter/gilman/slapaham scene of 93-97 or so :( that was an awesome group of people that doesnt come along very often
Nordstrom wields the sword
i was a major spazz fanboy as well, i even pretended to interview max for my non existant zine just as an excuse to talk to him, and he was really cool to annoying 15 year old me as well.
not only were they a great band, but back then being into grindcore and not being a crusty political activist was very frowned apron, so many people hated on spazz for that reason, which made me like them even more. i went to all kinds of shows in the 90′s, street punk/oi!, crust/grind, screamo/diy etc and was pretty much treated like shit by everyone cause i didn’t have the right look. Spazz were and are a big inspiration to me for not only not giving a fuck what people think, but also for actively antagonizing stupid people, a sentiment that i think is carried on with SYWH.
Best new band name “frowned apron” inb4 copycats “tortured culottes” & “morbid smock” pop up spawning sub genre “powerhaberdashery”.
Thank U autocorrect.
625 used to be very popular in Australia. I went to a few shows with thrash/powerviolence bands back in the day and was amazed by the mixture of crusties, street punx, straight edge youth crew fanatics, drunk bogans and the odd metalhead. Makes me a bit of a nostalgic oldfag to think of because I thought that was what hardcore would always be.
although i don’t think this is the type of bag he was talking about, i’m picturing a young dan walking down the street with a plastic shopping bag full of cheap, greasy pizza slices and it’s a little too funny to me.
for added comedic value add any of the following to this mental image:
- an EMETIC-brand weed bandana
- a kid in line going “IMAGINE THE MERCH!”
- x number of grunts and at least one guy vomiting
” plastic shopping bag full of cheap, greasy pizza slices”
i’m dying
now i’m imagining him going back to his buddies and just throwing them slices out the bag
no 13th podcast?
Whoops
So stoked to listen to this, Spazz fucking rules.
Just finished listening. Awesome job. His memory is pretty nuts.
That was the first time I’ve thought of a pause tape in years lol
So Emetic is a poor man’s Cephalic Carnage?
Also great interview man.
I liked the part about having to yell at idiots when he’s trying to plug in his guitar, because I’ve seen that before and it drives me up the fucking wall. People who need to be seen or noticed so fucking badly that they try to make the show about them instead of the band playing need to be lobotomized.
New Spazz song “lobotomized dwarf attention-whore”!
Fuck yeah, a Spazz post. I couldn’t get enough of Spazz or Charles Bronson when I was younger, I remember bussing it to a crapload of random ass stores on Melrose thinking I was the coolest there because I was looking for some goddamn powerviolence.
Hardcore before Mark McCoy was emo semen
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>That feel when your pack of groupies consists of a 15 year old Sergeant D.
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i sent vaccum distro so much of my money. i wish it was still around. dan describing deshko and shanky from emetic reminds me of some dudes i knew from independence, or. i have that gory melanoma/emetic split cause i was pen pals with someone from atascedero. good luck finding it today.
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