Morrissey said we hate it when our friends become successful, but I always thought the Smiths were shitty, so when my friends accomplish something, I think it’s awesome. For example, I am very proud to say that I’ve known all the guys in CHAMPION for 10+ years, who began as a humble TRIAL spin-off and ended up being one of the decade’s most influential and respected hardcore bands. They’re not only a great band, but genuinely nice, good-hearted dudes, which counts for a lot in my book.
As I’ve mentioned before on here, I went to high school with their drummer Todd Preboski and I count him as one of my top bros. The year or so that we lived in a giant house on the University of Washington’s frat row is one of my fondest memories, and I’m really happy that we’re still friends after all these years (no homo). In this edition of the SYWH TODDCAST, we talked about old NWHC, dumb shit from high school, and did a little Loveline-style advice segment- 90s minutes of pure gold, my friends!
Since we referred to a lot of obscure shit that you won’t know about unless you are an old NWHC bro and/or went to high school with us, here’s some audiovisual reference material so you can follow along at home. Sorry if TL;DR but I feel like this is as good a place as any to give props to some of these criminally underappreciated, ahead of their time NWHC bands:
My favorite song by FORMULA ONE, Todd’s old nofxcore band (I don’t think he played on this recording). The drummer, who is fucking sick, made me cry in 5th grade when he threw a green apple at me and it hit me in the balls really hard. The singer’s mom had a bunch of chihuahuas, one of which got its period blood on my shirt in 6th grade. And if you remember me joking about my friend who drank peach Fresca in high school, he played bass in this band.
“Fingerprints & Sandpaper” by LEFT WITH NOTHING. This has Nicky Platter on drums, who was the original drummer for CHAMPION and previously in TRIAL, and Paul DC on guitar, who played in TERROR for a little bit and is the guy Todd Jones asked about changing his strings. Brian Redman played bass, who was also in 3 INCHES OF BLOOD and died very tragically in 2009– best dude, RIP brother :(
And finally, my personal favorite NWHC band EVERYTHING WENT BLACK. Guitar: KC (HIMSA, BALANCE OF THE WORLD) & Josh (HIMSA, TRIAL). Bass: Soto (also from BALANCE). Drums: Ryan Murphy of UNDERTOW, ENSIGN, TEN YARD FIGHT, and (briefly) SHIFT. Vocals: EGO (Seattle graffiti OG). These guys were way, WAY ahead of their time, and it’s fucking tragic that they don’t get more recognition for it. I was going to put this recording out as a 7″ but I flaked on it for reasons I can’t remember.
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Youtube comments from the Warped Tour documentary trailer about Forever Came Calling?
Also, the latter two of those bands you posted were (sic) as fuk. Feeling a bit of a proto entombedcore vibe, very nice.
Thats from like 2000 btw. Very advanced!
Left with nothing also seem to have basically the same cover art as ‘Unsilent Death’, with the added bonus that it was obviously recorded before pinch harmonics became untr00.
Can’t listen right now, but definitely will at the next opportunity. Even though I’m a fggt skrambro a lot of the time, Champion is still my number one band.
Also, the guy covering his face getting hit with splooge is a nice touch, well done.
Thx, those kind of details are what my art is all about
when he threw a green apple at me and it
hit me in the balls really hard.
when he threw a green apple at me and it
hit me in the balls really hard.
literally spit out my pizza roll
It hurt really, really bad!! Also, his dad ordered a ‘dr pecker’ by accident, which we found very amusing
@ ‘dr. pecker’: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
http://img2.ranker.com/list_img/3903/522788/full/the-best-of-the-immature-high-schoolers-meme.jpg?version=1335846567000
#srs
the one on the right looks a lot like Todd in 9th grade, akshually
lol at you guys arguing over the Bloodlet snare. Love it’s uniqueness, but gotta go with Todd that it’s pretty wimpy sounding compared to the overall vibe of their sound. Have to go with Snapcase as my favorite piccolosnarecore band from the 90′s.
Snapcase’s set on the 2001 (?) Warped Tour was possibly the best live drum sound I have ever heard. Dat Noble & Cooley kit– the snare sounded like a fucking rifle.
got real stoked when he shouted out go it alone as a band that did it later and better, their drummer was a beast and also played on the carry on LP.
My old band’s demo was recorded with a piccolo snare. I was like “nooooo!” but the asshole drummer insisted on using it. What a shithead.
I LOVE the talk about the different types of bros. It makes me thankful that I don’t live anywhere near any of them, but I’m unfortunately surrounded by Zoey Dechenel hipsters/American Apparel hipsters/dream of the 1890s hipsters :(
i know that feel bro. #415 :(
PUERTORICAN SWASTIKA
Just bought the Formula One record on iTunes, and it is fucking great! The NWHC historian/90s revivalist in me is geeking out over this episode.
How often do you change your guitar strings?
I just put these on
That’s not what I fuckin’ asked!
HB bro’s listen to bands like PEPPER and SLIGHTLY STOOPID, and are of the surfbro variety. they drive non lifted ford rangers with REEF and HURLEY stickers on the back. they most likely also have a bob marley “one love” poster in their bedroom.
More raging version of SOTO – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1MC5EtEgs8
Nah brah the demo/Moses version is weak