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This page is a growing sub-collection containing the most interesting comments that you people posted. We listen to this stuff every day so let’s give it a face by your own portraits of past!
| Life Was Excelent Then |
| “I was around in the early 90′s when this scene was just taking off. There’s something so honest & healthy about it. The best music, zines, & scene EVER!!! We had so much fun here in Detroit with all the awesome midwest emo bands: SPLIT LIP, CURRENT, FALLING FORWARD, ENKINDEL, ENDPOINT, ROOSEVELT’S INAUGURAL PARADE, etc. All the great record labels and ‘zines. Just such a fun, productive time. I wish I could go back. Had the coolest girlfriend & friends. Life was excellent then. Everything on your blog and here, I owned. Different colored vinyl 7″s every week from the shows. I used to buy about five or six records a week.” |
| vadermask on youtube.com/user/VonLarkin |
| Chino Horde + Portraits of Past |
| “I had this after I saw them at Gilman. Wow, what a trip, you posted PORTRAITS OF PAST too ! my friend Vic produced them :D ha that is rad !” |
| tinyvox on youtube.com/watch?v=dy-KuXXHEh8 |
| Sold Off |
| “Good old days. Thanks for uploading! I thought I would never hear these songs again… as a former room mate up and stole / sold off my record collection to cover their drug addiction…” |
| Luxbroden on youtube.com/user/VonLarkin |
| Thru Phoenix/Tucson |
| “It’s amazing how I’d forgotten about so many of these songs. Probably saw 90% of the bands on this channel when they came through Phoenix/Tucson in the mid 90s. I sold off all my records of this era but I never forgot about how I felt when I listened to this stuff. I don’t relate to the music now as I did then, and that’s okay. It’s a relic of a very specific period of my life and I’m amazed at how good it still sounds.” |
| Mithering on youtube.com/user/VonLarkin |
| I Hate Myself |
| “i really miss this era of “emo” hardcore as easy as it was to clown on this stuff back in the day, at least it was sincere, and not a ploy to get laid.” |
| snakesforteeth on youtube.com/watch?v=4rsP5OV11lM |
| Cannot Die Like That |
| “haha, I found it funny that I read a article about “emo” yesterday and it said that people stop listening to emo after they turn 20 or something because they don’t “emotionally connect” with it the same way or something. INMO, real music CANNOT die like that, because the beauty of these lyrics is how open ended they are, u can always intepret them to mean a variety of things, real music NEVER gets old.” |
| Devaprakash777 on youtube.com/user/VonLarkin |
| I Hate Myself |
| “this is actually my favorite song of all time. the song that changed it all. made me a record collector. made me the dj and engineer i am today. this is the definitive moment of passion that motivates me to spin records every single day. Maybe I’m right. Maybe there’s no such thing as brighter side.” |
| aaronactual on youtube.com/watch?v=4rsP5OV11lM |
| Bay Area |
| “Hi VonLarkin, thanks so much for all the great uploads! I am a Swiss guy who was lucky enough to live in the Bay Area for 4 months back in 1994 before driving south to stay at Kent’s house (of Ebullition Records) in Isla Vista for some more weeks. During the whole stay, I could see so many live shows including most of the bands, you have posted on this channel. It simply was the best time of my life and it will never be forgotten. A typical day included skateboarding, seeing live Emo/Hardcore shows and meeting great friends and bands. This may sound boring to some of you, but it was such a life-changing time for me which I will never forget in my life. Thanks again!” |
| kaleidoscope74 on youtube.com/user/VonLarkin |
| I Have Dreams |
| “I see happy people walking around my school who have everything while others clearly don’t and yet they swear by the name of Emo but in all seriousness who the fuck do they think they are with they’re mainstream crap and they’re attention seeking ways they’re not sad they’re not broken they’re just kids who just wanna be different by conforming to a dead subculture which has been zombified into everything it stood against in the first place it makes me sick… They make me sick…” |
| Valikiyro on youtube.com/watch?v=8_-BhO0IojY |
| Benchmark |
| “hey, i played bass in benchmark. i can’t believe we recorded this 15 years ago! glad someone is still enjoying it. three of us still play together in a band called burned up bled dry, when we get the time (we all are spread out around the country)…other two guys i dont talk to much or at all anymore but i think they were playing music for awhile..” |
| str8ev on youtube.com/watch?v=k6Gqx1afoLQ |
| Saetia |
| “discovered saetia in 2002 through a random stranger when i took a trip to vancouver, i wish after all these years i could tell this person just how much they have done for me.” |
| drquantum84 on youtube.com/watch?v=2ZVXNas1wI8 |
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Listening to the FRAIL “Make Your Own Noise” CD presently. I wonder what the singer is up to these days? I wonder if straightedge is still relevant in his life? I wonder if hardcore matters to him anymore? I wonder if it matters to ANYONE anymore? Most of the time I think it matters to me, but I often second guess myself. In the early to mid 90′s people would often write about how much they loved hardcore, how much it meant to them, & how important it was in their lives. How it kept them from sinking into addiction or depression, & how it showed them there was a way out of an abusive situation. Kids credited hardcore for opening their eyes to animal abuse & cruelty, and the radical idea that you can exist without mindlessly consuming animal products. For many people hardcore was the first positive thing that they ever became a part of. Man, reading through these boxes of old ‘zines is a trip! Looking at all those photos from Dayton Fest ’93 on Josh Trustkill’s Facebook page is a trip! I love 70′s punk –THE CLASH will always be my favorite band ever, hands down–they were the greatest rock-n-roll band that ever was. They influenced my life in so many ways. Their music never gets old. I love 80′s hardcore, punk, & oi as well. But man, hardcore from 1992 – 1997 was just absolutely, positively monumental!!! Such an honest movement! I’m afraid it can never be replicated, and that’s a good thing! Hardcore seemed so much smaller & more underground then. It certainly was more naive & innocent. We really thought that there would one day be some kind of ‘Vegan Revolution’ or at least a mass awakening! Many, but not all of us, believed in straightedge, animal rights, equality for all, & DIY ethics. Whenever I see old hardcore videos, with all those bleach-blonde bowl cuts, choker necklaces, overalls, giant hooded sweatshirts, & backpacks, I get a warm nostalgic feeling in my gut. Shows were abundant, the kids were printing ‘zines & stickers & flyers, we were cooking giant pots of vegan stew & eating it while reading Animal Liberation Front pamphlets. And people cared–or at least they seemed to. We openly proclaimed how much hardcore meant to us. We talked about where we would be without hardcore, if we would be ANYWHERE at all! For many of us hardcore saved our lives! I know it did for me. It kept me going & breathing, through some of the most troubling, dark, negative, depressing, painful, lonely, scary & horrific times in my life. It helped me find a way out of addiction & suicidal depression. It taught me about the suffering of animals & people as well. It taught me that anyone can start a band & book a show & publish a fanzine & press a record or CD. We had friends in Chicago, Detroit, Louisville, Boston, DC, Tampa, Memphis, Syracuse, Buffalo, Toronto, Windsor, Madison, Boise, Austin, Tempe, Las Vegas, Oakland, San Fran, Seattle, & Portland. I always had a floor to crash on after the show in your town & you always had a floor to crash on after the show in my town! For the majority of my life hardcore has meant the world to me! I love it!!!