V/A Drinking Is Great
Portland hardcore comp Drinking is Great is dedicated to “the great boozers throughout history” - an appropriate soundtrack for weekend in which the wife and I will be heading out to some of New York State’s finest wineries on our annual fall booze run. Released on Poison Idea’s Fatal Erection label, Drinking is Great is a snapshot of the hardcore scene in the Rose City circa 1985. 4 bands, 4 tracks, the highlight being Poison Idea’s “Laughing Boy” - possibly my favorite track by Jerry A and Tom Pig. The E-13 track is solid, with a great mid-tempo feel. The other two tracks aren’t bad, but fall into the vast morass of unremarkable metallic hardcore. Eh, decide for yourself:
Poison Idea - Laughing Boy.mp3
E-13 - Pankreatitis.mp3
Lockjaw - You Dick.mp3
Final Warning - I Quit.mp3
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We are in sync on the PI song - my take on it.
HAH!
I was wondering when or how I’d hear this one again!
Pig Champion played this on his radio show alot, and would complain about the sound of the Poison Idea track.
Final Warning were P-Town’s answer to GBH, complete with Great Big Hair. I don’t think they recorded very much.
Lockjaw was a skinhead band with a big contingent who would cause a lot of trouble at shows. Such was(/is) the punk rock soap opera, back in the day.
Lockjaw eventually became the much better Tattoo’d Corpse, featuring former Lockjaw vocalist Del ‘Sgt.’ Carter.
laughing boy is definitely one of the better PI songs if just for the intro alone
Hey, I was just doing a search trying to find another copy of Drinking is Great and i ran across this. I was wondering who Chardman is? Did you live in Portland? Where did you get your info? lol. Del Murray (not Carter) played guitar, Tony Arcudi was the singer for Lockjaw. C’mon Tim, Simon and Jeff never had hair that big, the only GBH similarity was that the hair was bleached and spikey. I never heard Toms radio show, maybe he fed everyone a bunch of crap, but I doubt it. I knew him from the old PDX days and he was super duper cool. Sorry, but the memory of those days are cherished by me and probably a lot of other kids that grew up in the early 80’s in “P-Town” when punk wasn’t cool. It just breaks my heart to hear someone talking crap about the old days there. I’m sorry you weren’t there to see what it was really like. KKT/PDX Girl www.myspace.com/cyberhansa
sometimes you forget just how good the bad old days were, and how good the music was…the P.I. tune is awesome, but i gotta give e-13 props, they, during those days gave tom and the boys a definite run for their money as the best punkers on the block…absolutely incredible live, and completely horrible drunken retrobates, personally. the lockjaw track is really cool, too.
definetly captures their meat-headed approach to any form of social interaction.
one of my friends in high school went out with the bass player of e-13, she was always crying cuz he was always in jail, and not for little things, for assault and burglary, things like that.
i had a date with john, the singer once, i read him my poetry, he ridiculed it until i cried.
i thought we were gonna make out! lol
i didn’t go to another punk show untill all those guys were dead or in prison.
-and all you macho jerks wonder why morrisey is such a turn on?
fuck e-13.
E-13 was crazy, we would spit on the floor and they would lick it up. Eugene was crazy back in the day, I didnt think most of us would make it. Final warning was nothing like GBH, Blond spiked hair was the only common thing.