As regular readers may know, I consider the San Gabriel Valley (aka the 626) my home away from home. Just east of Los Angeles, nestled between the San Fernando Valley (the 818) and the Inland Empire (the 909), the SGV stretches from the quaint-but-hip shops of Old Town Pasadena to the oceans of Chinese assholes in Alhambra, all the way to the unassuming city of Pomona. It’s not just a paradise of hot pochas and a great place to raise a family, it’s something of a secret ‘mecca of mosh’!
I ur weiner lieks this bish as much as mine does, it will explode with delight the moment you set foot in the 626 because there are literally hundreds of thousands just like her. Sup, Diamond Bar High class of 2008?
At first glance the SGV is basically just a giant sea of strip malls and big box stores, but the thin veneer of crass commercialism hides what is easily the world’s largest concentrations of breakdowns per capita! That’s right, the SGV has been bringing the mosh for decades: back in the day UNASHAMED brought epic mosh4christ from Glendora, Redlands’ XDEATHSTARX moshed the fuck for Jesus, OF MICE & MEN hails from Chino Hills, poppy moshers SUCH A MESS are from Walnut or something, and last but certainly not least there is XIBALBA, who are from Pomona and go harder than any SGV band before or since.
That awkward moment when 30 seconds after pressing play on this joke song, you think to yourself ‘akshually this song is pretty sweet; wood definitely mosh to this if GOLIATH re-recorded it’ (although they are an 818 band they have the SGV sound down perfectly)
This is all a longwinded way of saying that there is definitely a ‘SGV sound,’ and it is the sound of moshing. Which explains the joke behind this song called “How To Get Big In The Pomona Scene (ft 30 Bass Drops).” Check out his Soundcloud page for more hits like “Wut” and “Dat Pattern”!
Suga Free reps Pomona…http://youtu.be/I9b9TsToils
Hahaha I know that breakdown around the 2 minute mark is supposed to be a joke but I can never forget how there is a Recon song with a breakdown that ACTUALLY sounds like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKo6HnfyG-U&ob=av2n
I fucking love Recon. None more ignorant
AND I WOULD HAVE TO SUFFOCATE MYSELF
AND KILL EVERYBODY ELSE
JUST TO TOLERATE THIS HELL
FUCK! THE! WORLD!
Fuck Recon had some good breakdowns, including my all-time favorite breakdown in ‘Deceiver’. Get this joke song up to that quality, add 30 more bass drops, then you got an instant classic.
Kinda like how That’s Outrageous! started as a joke but crabcore bros for real dig it.
It’s not even funny how much I love legit songs that sound like this. Probably because I live in Glendora.
jelly :( need a roommate??
Ugh, rather die than live that far east. 818 wutup la crescenta 4real
pshh… reppin’ dat ghetto 323 eastside/central el-lay up in this shit!!!
oh god…. now im turning like an insecure betafag by aligning myself to this shit just like some of these fuckers said a post ago lol
Dude, what’s the scene like (if at all) in La Crescenta? I know La Cañada has had a decent couple of bands, but still pretty low-key.
Haha if at all is the right phrase. No shows here, gotta go to East LA/Boyle Heights/Downtown. Or South Central if you want to get your straight out of 1986 mexi-thrash on.
Sarge , I’ll set you up out here in Moreno Valley.
PLZ HALP, who is the bish in dat picture? If she does porn I am going to have callouses tomorrow.
Cierra Spice– good luck with your penis trauma goals for 2012!
Thanks Sarge, she looks like a chunkier Ariany. #HNNNNNGGGGHHHHHH/10
Wood fawn over her and turn her off with my needy beta faggotry/10
Only problem with SGV, is there literally TONS of bands, of every genre, but few gain even minor sucsess, A few that come to mind are Confide (Pasadena), Winds Of Plague which are technically 909, but everyone is the valley holds them close, and the drummer is 626 from el monte. And Xibalba, which you already mentioned. Such A Mess is from differnet places, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Arcadia, ect. I think one of the newer members is from Wal Nut, but their mainly SGV. You really gotta look for bands, some are great, others are worse than scum haha, There are so many bands per capita, their aurora of sucking drowns out the better ones sometimes. Kinda like looking through a huge pile shit horse shit, because theres a couple small pieces of gold in there. As for chicks, there is a huge varitey of hot bitches here, so many of them are willing to put out at college parties without you even learning their names, its ridiculous haha. Plus its a great suburbia for those ‘I wanna a house and kid’ types, if you can find a wifeable bish. MOAR LIEK ‘SLAM GABRIEL’ VALLEY AMIRITE!???
My azn grew up in west covina and alhambra… Its liek paradise to me <3
meh…. gimme dem gueras from da LBC or da rich westside hehe >;-D
HERE WE GO ONE MORE BREAKDOWN!!
why do i hear this in david lee roth’s voice?
That song kicks ass by the way, i would fuck shit up if i saw that band live haha
U forgot abt Winds of Plague brah, Upland High class of 05/06!!!! My buddy went to school with Johnny Plague hahaha
Upland is 909 brah
boo!!! ground zero for racist skins/bro’s and hot ass bro hoe’s….
wood smash dem bro-hoe’s N-E wayz No fux given/10
I was born in Fontana, ca
That’s prob the only cool thing about me
lol @ “slam gabriel valley”
Yo extra srs, somebody who knows shit about management and has connections or whatever needs to hook these kids up wit Above This for a split EP. They have already put this theory into practice thrice over. http://www.stuffyouwillhate.com/2012/03/above-this-needs-to-get-with-a-pro-producer-stat/#comment-41067
Im psyching myself up imagining the astronomical number of bass drops their powers combined would wrought.
Double-cd + downloadable extras. Put it on endless repeat, never buy another piece of music, ever.
pics from the graduation of Diamond Bar High class of 2012 looked like it could have been snapped at any given day in my old neighbourhood in beijing.
I associate the San Gabriel Valley with 18-year-old Mexican American males playing “thrash,” and by that I mean really awful hardcore punk played lightning fast, not thrash metal like Anthrax.
I associate the 909 with bass drops 4 christ.
“Chicano males playing thrash” = thats everywhere in el-lay brah…. such shittiness is not a crime btw… unless you’re drinking a 40 or two and they cover(butcher) a thrash song you like and get into it!!!
gonna have to agree here. lived in Monrovia and El Monte my whole life and in prog and thrash bands myslef. The closest to this we have over here are Job wannabe’s, thankfully. This ‘music’ sucks ass and shows no talent or creativeness.
yee Glendora. I didn’t even know we had any musical talent in this town
holy fuck… the giggles this song gave me.
It is very advanced art
Pomona brah here. meccaofmosh4lyfe
Sorry, what song is this? Must must must buy.
sarge, if you’re gonna pose like a socal resident, or are planning to move here, you should at least get the geography right.
redlands = 909/inland empire.
yes, upland is technically inland empire due to being in san bernardino county, but it’s west of fontana/rancho cucamonga/15 fwy & next to montclair so people usually think of it as part of the pomona valley area.
SGV does not include pomona because anything east of the 57 or the kellog interchange is pomona valley. conversely some people consider pomona part of the IE, but that’s highly debatable since pomona is actually in LA county.
my bad, for some reason i thought redlands was further west!