Straight and Alert!
I swear must have entered some kind of time warp or worm hole back to my senior year in high school, because there it was in front of me - Gorilla Biscuits and Murphy’s Law playing last night at the Country Club in Syracuse. It’s like it was fucking 1989 all over again, with the exception that I’m a lot older, fatter, and just plain disinterested in most NYHC these days. So yeah, I passed on the show. Instead, I spent some time pulling together a couple of my favorite pisstakes on straight edge from years past….
And oh man, I’d forgotten just how ridiculously funny The Posi-Machine was, and just how much it pissed off some of my most enthusiastic SXE friends (except the “slow” girl we hung out with, who thought that Crucial Youth were dead serious)
Crucial Youth - Caffeine.mp3
Crucial Youth - Big Mouth.mp3
Crucial Youth - Scarlet M.mp3
Buddyhead has the lowdown on Gayrilla Biscuits. Their first 7″ featured 8 homofied covers of straightedge/tough guy classics by the likes of Sick of it All, Minor Threat, Bold, and Gorilla Biscuits. Crude and retarded, but entertaining in junior high kinda way.
Gayrilla Biscuits - Flaming Ass Still Burns.mp3
Gayrilla Biscuits - Nailed in the Ass.mp3
I really don’t know much about Grudge, other than they were from LA and released their Project Ex 7″ in 1989.
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you missed out on the gb show. need to get your old punk ass out!!!
Love it. GOOD CLEAN FUN, XONEWAYX, JUD JUD, and BROKEN TRUST have also milked the straight edge spoof angle. Somebody should compile oi! goofs like HARDSKIN, OIL!, and JEWDRIVER.
be straight, don’t be late, bench your weight, don’t masturbate.
something about my 4 rules. my sister went to high school with the really tall indian dude who played bass in crucial youth. woohoo!
oh yeah, can’t forget chicanochrist. god i’m behind on my blogging.
Straight Youth from Florida is a another great SxE parody. That one is worth tracking down. I’m pretty sure Grudge were members of Half-Off.
Thanks for these. I’ve linked your site to my blog.
I heard Grudge was people from Unit Pride?……
Oh, Don’t forget Uniform Approach from Bristol in the UK (from aprox 1990), members of Heresy/Ripcord. The old demo came out on a 7″ on Aussie Clint Chapmans Shotfuse records last year, well worth picking up.
Great post!
Actually went to the GB/Murphy’s Law show in Asbury Park over the weekend. Pretty awful. A lot ex-straight-edgers drunk off their asses and tons of overgrown meatheads beating the shit out of each other. Sad.
Be just like me and Mr T…Be just like me DRUG FREE!!!! mwahhahahahaha!!!!!!
Grudge was formed by brothers Jerry Holman (drums) and Greg Holman (guitar) and Ake Arndt (vocs) in 1989. Jerry and myself were very into the local HC scene in Long Beach and OC. We would go to shows at Fender’s Ballroom and Hangout at Zed records all the time. The straight edge shit was really taking over all the local HC shows and was becoming very incestual and ruley in our eyes. One day Jerry and I were joking about starting a fake SE band while in our high school govt. class, and we came up with the name Grudge (after Judge) . We did a fake interview with a guy named Igby who did Whats The Pont Fanzine out of Long Beach. Big Frank who worked at Zed Records and started Nemisis Records read the interview and thought it was hilarious, he asked if we were a real band and we said yes. He then wanted to hear a demo. So Jerry and I spent about a week ripping off popular SE song and re-writing them for Grudge. We gave the demo to Frank he liked it and said he would put it out. Billy Rubin (Half Off) also worked at Zed Records and said he and his roomate Maynerd G Krebs (Crucial Youth) would help us with recording.
A month later Grudge Project Ex was Recorded and released on Jism Records on Beer Colored Vinyl.
Grudge played one show at Fenders Ballroom on the 5th of May with DI and infest among others. We dressed like the back of the record and had a pinata filled completely with beer bottle caps. It was ripped to shreds and bottle caps were everywhere by the end of the night. Grudge was just a joke we were never a real band, but it was a good time and I’m glad to have added to the history of that scene. My friend sent me the link to this sight because it had mp3s on it of us and said I would get a kick out of it.
Thanks The End
Carl Of Tomorrow
Hey Carl of Tomorrow - Maynard G krebs here - how the “heck” have you been ? Nice post - always nice to see some other spoof bands out there - I somehow missed Gayrilla Biscuits. When CY stopped playing in 1989/90 - we briefly contemplated reforming as “MANDATE” - a gay punk metal band - sorta combining the sounds of Sabbath/the Dead Boys and the lyrical sensibilities of the Village People. However, those euro-boy geniuses in Turbo Negro beat us to that punch, and the rest is history.
Anybody out there know where Bill Rubin is ? Oh and in response to some post way up at the top - there were two really tall indians in CY - myself on geeetar and the might Melvin Berkeley on drums. Rumours that we may be related are greatly exagerated.
Holy crap! I haven’t even thought of Crucial Youth for years and now this! Hahhahaaa! Thanks, man! Do you remember Stikky? Another funny punk band from late 80s.
Holy shit!
What a blast from the past. That Grudge 7″ was the shit!
Now I feel all old n’ shit… thanks.
“When there is conflict, I will drink!”
Words to live by. I always loved that Grudge 7″.
Yeah, Stikky was great. Their LP is pretty good,
but my favorite was always “demo #2″.
This shit rules. My old band (broken trust..suprisingly mentioned above) released “straightedge across Americe” and featured a edger skin in a bar with x on hand as cover art…Straight Edge Beer Barrel Polka to all!
I haven’t heard GRUDGE in ages, I got the 7″ and my friend Carlos listened to it over and over and we were laughing so hard we fell out of out seats.
YO FATASS YOU GOT BIG BUTT! BRRRRRR BO!
Really great stuff, from the hardcore days.
I think Jerry went on to play drums in Chorus of Disapproval(!?!?!) and then in One Step Ahead (another great and overlooked SoCal band!)
I haven’t heard GRUDGE in ages, I got the 7″ and my friend Carlos listened to it over and over and we were laughing so hard we fell out of out seats.
YO FATASS YOU GOT BIG BUTT! BRRRRRR BO!
Really great stuff, from the hardcore days.
I think Jerry, uhhhh I mean Slammy, went on to play drums in Chorus of Disapproval(!?!?!) and then in One Step Ahead (another great and overlooked SoCal band!)
My cousin chip had this e.p. and I used to play it all the time, I thought it was real funny! still is, I wonder what those dudes are up to now?