post pictures of your old bands

trycycle, circa 2002
https://www.angelfire.com/hiphop/djlife/pics/tricycle.jpg
l to r: rajbot, emic, me ("dee jaye leyefe")

yes, my shirt says "i'm a cult hero" lol

GAHHHH NOOOO

https://i.imgur.com/TXtmNT0.jpeg

Boardwalk Elvis, June 1994

https://i.imgur.com/Wct5u06.jpg

I'm the 6 foot tall, 15-year-old hippie with a beard, playing ska-punk on a Les Paul into a Fender with the reverb cranked all the way up.

far right, hush puppies, frog shirt.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7380/9043656286_04b266343a.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/rKfC0b1.jpg

Young me, far right.

(Young Me would be a great name for a band.)

Ha, great photos

boardwalk elvis looking very classy with the plant by the kick drum. "place order here" lol

think i've seen that hush puppies photo on the back of an old cutout lp😀

josh that's not a real band on account of no guitars in photo.

You look like Pat Smear, Josh in Chicago, or at least you did whenever that pic was taken.

The Roswell Incident, sometime in 1998, recording in Ned Raggett's garage.

https://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/roswell_droning.jpg

I'm on the far right.

in Ned Raggett's garage

which one of you is reciting pi in this photo?

Zezo zece Zadfrack & the Dune Buggy Attack Batallion (1986 or 7)
https://imgur.com/xm0bsTx

crap

https://imgur.com/xm0bsTx

try https://i.imgur.com/xm0bsTx_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

or maybe https://i.imgur.com/xm0bsTx_d.webp might work

either way, i'll just assume you're the shirtless bloke down front👍🏻

thx! i'm Hawkfan in pic
https://i.imgur.com/xm0bsTx_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Sadly no extant photographic documentation of Parallax, the short lived metal "band" I was in with a very excellent guitar shredding friend and another decent bass playing friend. I played "drums", in that his "kit" consisted of one snare and one cymbal. Basically an excuse for said friend to shred on guitar without having to do it alone.

That is an amazing band photo and I want to party with you.

(Young Me would be a great name for a band.)

lol

in Ned Raggett's garage.

Truth or an oblique joke?? So cool if true!

Also nice Moog, btw

I want to party with you.

― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Wednesday, September 14, 2022 9:43 AM

truth

I'm not here for all these bands that looked cool. I don't have any pictures of my high school metal band handy, but we did not look cool.

This is the oldest-school pic I can think of online, I'm on bass drum and big pants.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CV3EYyJLlL-/

As with a lot of things, David Berman said it best:
What's with all the handsome grandsons
In these rock band magazines?
What have they done with the fat ones?
The bald and the goateed?

Handsome Grandsons also a great band name

Yeah, that's great!

offshoot of the Handsome Family

in Ned Raggett's garage.

Truth or an oblique joke?? So cool if true!

Truth! At that time it was also the home of former ILXor Donut Bitch too.

Also nice Moog, btw

thx! that Moog is still working strong (along with the Farfisa it's sitting on)

which one of you is reciting pi in this photo?

Ha! Jake (on the drum at the far left) would eventually release Ned Raggett Reads The Almanac on his label Tape Mountain.

Oh wow! A very awesome crew.

I can't be arsed to go looking through my old photos right now so I'm just gonna post up the one from our last.fm page. It's kind of crappy quality but it is suitably old.

https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/770x0/218cc3521f1543bdb72c8abb2bcd2b5d.jpg

Played at this same club this past weekend after a decade-long break from bands. Early or mid-00s shot of band called Blackstrap.

https://imgur.com/a/qFQ4pe9

https://imgur.com/a/qFQ4pe9

or just

https://imgur.com/a/qFQ4pe9

Great thread.

here's one from cbgb, probably 1978? broken hearts.
https://i.ibb.co/W3MsRhD/jeff-and-mark-at-cbgb.jpg

Thanks Austin this thread is a balm. (I had no band or music career sadly)

🙂☮️

That's a great photo, TSF.

we are not worthy!

I'm second from the right here.

http://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/ar0/7cbbc8f1d4454ae59151b33923954889.jpg

That's a great photo, TSF.

― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Wednesday, September 14, 2022 5:57 PM

yep, def winner of thread so far

loving this thread.

never been in a band, but there was the one time i ended up in a studio as football chanting/backing vocals with jim fry (earl brutus etc) and friends :

http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/wp-content/prenew_the-joint-8.jpg

and no, i can't fit into the spiderman t-shirt these days.

bugger.
direct link : http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/wp-content/prenew_the-joint-8.jpg

I said it last time you posted it but that is clearly Steve Pemberton and you were conned.

haha.
yeah, there is a resemblence, but i suspect jims stories are a lot more entertaining.