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RaceU4her said:
i have a bunch of shows of all those bands from the qe2 and other places up there from back then on VHS ive not seen yet on youtube i gotta get uploaded one of these days. did you ever go to that max trax studio where they all recorded?
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Lol that place was legendary i suppose. I actually took part in the gang vocals there for Dying Breed, I think it was at Max Trax but not sure/can't remember. My band recorded with Johnny "bip" down the street from the Qe2 and again can't remember the name of the place. This was almost 30 years ago. Bringing back some memories.

If you know who Ted Etoll is. In my opinion he was majorly responsible for the music scene being as good as it was back then. I've played dozens of shows maybe even hundreds, all over the country and to this day nobody took as good of care of bands and booked as many great bands as that guy did. As far as I'm concerned he was the key ingredient of having such a great music scene and probably didn't get enough credit, although everyone knew him.

If you have some old Q videos that would be amazing to see. My first show ever was there. I was 14 and scared. It got pretty insane at that place.
 
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RaceU4her said:
i have a bunch of shows of all those bands from the qe2 and other places up there from back then on VHS ive not seen yet on youtube i gotta get uploaded one of these days. did you ever go to that max trax studio where they all recorded?
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Some other maybe lesser known bands to check out for you from that area if you can find them online.

Comic Arson
Organ Harvest
Traumacide
Street Sweeper
Balls Deep
Tentacles

Mostly death metal type bands above.

But also some more hardcore bands:

Stigmata/Cranial Abuse
Straight Jacket (my former singers first hardcore band)
Wrath
End of Line (definitely check these guys out)
Flat Broke (legends of Troy)
Held Under (killer metallic hardcore, surprised they didn't go big)

There's a band that still plays now I believe called The Final Sleep, has the guitarist Mike Stack from Dying Breed and the Singer from Held Under on vocals/guitar. Pretty cool stuff. The only other bands from that particular scene that I know of who are still doing it (besides a few random reunion shows) would be the final Sleep and Skinless .

There were so many more bands that I can't even think of right now. It was a huge scene and that's just what people did there in the area at that time. Troy/Albany/Cohoes are all shit holes in the armpit of the world. There was nothing to do except crime, party be poor and metal.

It was the type of thing where any venue would be packed any night of the week. We would probably go to 3 shows per week, every single week for years. Even a show with bands you didn't even care about you would still go to. That's just what people did back then.

There were a few DIY venues around but the Qe2, Bogies, Winners were the main places. Really early on like very early 90s maybe even late 80s they had the South Troy community center and would get bands like Biohazard to come up.

I kind of miss it there and definitely miss the people but it's really no place/way to live life as an adult or to raise a family.
 
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OldGtrGuy said:
Some other maybe lesser known bands to check out for you from that area if you can find them online.

Comic Arson
Organ Harvest
Traumacide
Street Sweeper
Balls Deep
Tentacles

Mostly death metal type bands above.

But also some more hardcore bands:

Stigmata/Cranial Abuse
Straight Jacket (my former singers first hardcore band)
Wrath
End of Line (definitely check these guys out)
Flat Broke (legends of Troy)
Held Under (killer metallic hardcore, surprised they didn't go big)

There's a band that still plays now I believe called The Final Sleep, has the guitarist Mike Stack from Dying Breed and the Singer from Held Under on vocals/guitar. Pretty cool stuff. The only other bands from that particular scene that I know of who are still doing it (besides a few random reunion shows) would be the final Sleep and Skinless .

There were so many more bands that I can't even think of right now. It was a huge scene and that's just what people did there in the area at that time. Troy/Albany/Cohoes are all shit holes in the armpit of the world. There was nothing to do except crime, party be poor and metal.

It was the type of thing where any venue would be packed any night of the week. We would probably go to 3 shows per week, every single week for years. Even a show with bands you didn't even care about you would still go to. That's just what people did back then.

There were a few DIY venues around but the Qe2, Bogies, Winners were the main places. Really early on like very early 90s maybe even late 80s they had the South Troy community center and would get bands like Biohazard to come up.

I kind of miss it there and definitely miss the people but it's really no place/way to live life as an adult or to raise a family.
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yup, i had the three hour drive circle up to Boston, that whole western mass scene over to up by you guys and then all the way down to Philly, with Jersey and NYC in between, as soon as i got my license three shows would be considered a slow week lol. i remember leaving right from high school at 2:15 to beat the traffic through nyc to get down to NJ on school nights reading a hagstrom map trying to find these towns, then getting there and trying to find a cop or someone to give us directions. its funny how every area was like a little different but at the same time the same shit just with different faces. then myspace came along and everyone now was connected and actually knew each other and it was just wild. i feel like i could write a sopranos style tv show based around everything i have seen, good and bad LOL

ill have to find an Albany blog or something and find all those bands. i really only made it up there a couple times and i honestly dont even remember the club names, id usually just hit up poughkeepise which was like two hours closer. that place was fucking grim lol.

another great thing about the vfw's and other unmic'd shit holes was getting to hear and analyze amps at volume lol


edit: just found this, he talks about section 8 being huge here. had no idea they were a jock band up there?? haha


https://tickinginmyhead.blogspot.com/
 
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RaceU4her said:
yup, i had the three hour drive circle up to Boston, that whole western mass scene over to up by you guys and then all the way down to Philly, with Jersey and NYC in between, as soon as i got my license three shows would be considered a slow week lol. i remember leaving right from high school at 2:15 to beat the traffic through nyc to get down to NJ on school nights reading a hagstrom map trying to find these towns, then getting there and trying to find a cop or someone to give us directions. its funny how every area was like a little different but at the same time the same shit just with different faces. then myspace came along and everyone now was connected and actually knew each other and it was just wild. i feel like i could write a sopranos style tv show based around everything i have seen, good and bad LOL

ill have to find an Albany blog or something and find all those bands. i really only made it up there a couple times and i honestly dont even remember the club names, id usually just hit up poughkeepise which was like two hours closer. that place was fucking grim lol.

another great thing about the vfw's and other unmic'd shit holes was getting to hear and analyze amps at volume lol


edit: just found this, he talks about section 8 being huge here. had no idea they were a jock band up there?? haha


https://tickinginmyhead.blogspot.com/
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Lol I'll read that in a minute.

The only time I went to Poughkeepsie was with Section 8 at a place called the chance I believe. But yeah man tons of awesome venues in a small area.

New England is cool like that. You're like 3 hours away from many major cities. Providence to Springfield to NY to Philly. Good times.

And yeah when section 8 first came out it was all the Albany hardcore kids but after a while they somehow started getting jocks to show up. We called them Whitehats because every single one of them wore a white college hat. My friends wore different hats :)

But yeah maybe it's because all the girls s8 would bring too idk. But the jocks threw down in the pit too.

Edit: after reading that post most of it is pretty spot on. Section 8 had a huge following, was musically much better than Hatebreed imo and could have done something with the band. Their second album however was a flop. It just got way too soft.

The one thing that bothers me about that blog post is this lol: loved the band, but getting caught up in a push pit at the QE2 when the place was beyond the point of capacity was to much for me to deal with.

I'm calling BS ive never seen a push pit in my life until I moved to the Midwest and any show at the Q was the absolute farthest thing from a push pit. I've seen dozens of people knocked out, bloody faces and what not. It was a very savage place.
 
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I know we've gotten way off topic here but notable mention. They weren't from Albany (Bronx) but one of my favorite NYHC bands we used to play with was Irate. Guessing you've heard them but if not check them out. They were heavy, tons of groove, a little metallic and some of the coolest guys I've met in the music scene back in the days.
 
OldGtrGuy said:
I know we've gotten way off topic here but notable mention. They weren't from Albany (Bronx) but one of my favorite NYHC bands we used to play with was Irate. Guessing you've heard them but if not check them out. They were heavy, tons of groove, a little metallic and some of the coolest guys I've met in the music scene back in the days.
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i still listen to Irate pretty much regularly :ROFLMAO: for whatever reasons though, they did not do well in CT at all back in the day :dunno: thinking about it now, there was a ton of great bands from nyc and nj that didnt do very well here and it never made sense to me id say till about the mid 00's.
 
Speeddemon said:
Interesting to see that TDS has a handmade Driftwood thingy. Pretty sure he had some beef with them in the past, where he returned his (Mini?)Nightmare, because it kept failing or something.

The vibe I get from him is that he's not gonna reach a high age... :rolleyes:🍔🥩🍟🍕
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RaceU4her said:
yup, i had the three hour drive circle up to Boston, that whole western mass scene over to up by you guys and then all the way down to Philly, with Jersey and NYC in between, as soon as i got my license three shows would be considered a slow week lol. i remember leaving right from high school at 2:15 to beat the traffic through nyc to get down to NJ on school nights reading a hagstrom map trying to find these towns, then getting there and trying to find a cop or someone to give us directions. its funny how every area was like a little different but at the same time the same shit just with different faces. then myspace came along and everyone now was connected and actually knew each other and it was just wild. i feel like i could write a sopranos style tv show based around everything i have seen, good and bad LOL

ill have to find an Albany blog or something and find all those bands. i really only made it up there a couple times and i honestly dont even remember the club names, id usually just hit up poughkeepise which was like two hours closer. that place was fucking grim lol.

another great thing about the vfw's and other unmic'd shit holes was getting to hear and analyze amps at volume lol


edit: just found this, he talks about section 8 being huge here. had no idea they were a jock band up there?? haha


https://tickinginmyhead.blogspot.com/
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Have you ever been to the Princeton Arts Consul (I think that what it was called) in central NJ? Saw a decent number of hardcore shows there back in the early to mid 90's.
 
RaceU4her said:
i still listen to Irate pretty much regularly :ROFLMAO: for whatever reasons though, they did not do well in CT at all back in the day :dunno: thinking about it now, there was a ton of great bands from nyc and nj that didnt do very well here and it never made sense to me id say till about the mid 00's.
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I don't listen to much hardcore anymore, a few old bands here and there. As far as anything new I'm out of the loop. I like Borstal (nik barker) and Phil from Irate, his kid plays guitar in a band called Brass Knuckle Brigade.
 
OldGtrGuy said:
The one thing that bothers me about that blog post is this lol: loved the band, but getting caught up in a push pit at the QE2 when the place was beyond the point of capacity was to much for me to deal with.

I'm calling BS ive never seen a push pit in my life until I moved to the Midwest and any show at the Q was the absolute farthest thing from a push pit. I've seen dozens of people knocked out, bloody faces and what not. It was a very savage place.
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I can verify that. I know at least one guy that lost a tooth in the QE2, lol. Those were the days. 🤣
 
MetalThrasher said:
Have you ever been to the Princeton Arts Consul (I think that what it was called) in central NJ? Saw a decent number of hardcore shows there back in the early to mid 90's.
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i dont believe so, but i didnt get my license till i guess 98 when i was 16 though so that could have been before my time. Venues in NJ as most places didnt last too long with hardcore shows lol. there was this wild riot at a place called the Wreck Room i remember with swat teams and helicopters and shit
 
RaceU4her said:
i dont believe so, but i didnt get my license till i guess 98 when i was 16 though so that could have been before my time. Venues in NJ as most places didnt last too long with hardcore shows lol. there was this wild riot at a place called the Wreck Room i remember with swat teams and helicopters and shit
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Lit, it wasn't a good show without sirens of some sort.
 
Erock said:
I can verify that. I know at least one guy that lost a tooth in the QE2, lol. Those were the days. 🤣
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i dont know how dudes didnt lose their lives let alone a tooth with some of the shit ive seen at shows, like literally half our scene went away for years for brawling. I was at the section 8 shows here the dude talks about in the blog and it being an actual hardcore show, they must have dragged five or six dudes out of the place who now needed reconstructive surgery, and that was just the first song, college jocks would have had no chance lol
 
RaceU4her said:
this channel has a bunch of shows from back in the day up there like this gem

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Thats awesome to see man, that's my hometown and some of the guys in grew up with in those videos.

I see they have some live war time manner videos too. Those guys were probably the heaviest hardcore band in the area. There have been a few guys from the area to go on to play music for a living like the guys in skinless, or Jay Bittner but the Drummer Bobby Agars from War Time was a complete monster and one of the best drummers around. Him and Rick Rigney
 
OldGtrGuy said:
Thats awesome to see man, that's my hometown and some of the guys in grew up with in those videos.

I see they have some live war time manner videos too. Those guys were probably the heaviest hardcore band in the area. There have been a few guys from the area to go on to play music for a living like the guys in skinless, or Jay Bittner but the Drummer Bobby Agars from War Time was a complete monster and one of the best drummers around. Him and Rick Rigney
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i know war time manner, they did a split 7" with Two by Four from here which was Hatebreed with a different singer. Bittner i actually hung out with a bunch, i had a few buddies on shadows fall's crew and got to hang with them on their rise when they were around. he was great in stigmata.
 
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