Quite a show for DC punk rock old-timers on Sunday night

[swag]

If you lived in DC during the 80s and early 90s, and paid attention to independent music and art, you will recognize some of these names. Wow. Amy Pickering from Fireparty (and also of her memorable live performances of "Suggestion" with Fugazi). A 9353 reunion. Kind of amazing.

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. Damn, at first I thought it was in PDX..

I would have went.

[swag]

2. Sorry. Anyway, isn't most of Poison Idea playing yet again this weekend?

[mikeytherat]

3. Wow! I Am Eye and The Pietasters! I have not heard those in a LONG time!

Very cool!

mikey_the_rat

[seemunkee]

4. Tiny Desk Unit

I remember Tom T from the WPFW days. I'll have to see if I can't get one of my old 9:30 club buddies to go.

[swag]

5. Okay, got email from Amy Pickering. Turns out that she is emceeing

along with Dody Bowers who did (still does?) own the 930 club.

Should be cool.

[smtpgirl]

6. I remember those days

Black Flag
Bad Brains
Black Market Baby
Minor Threat
The Obsessed - punk/doom

[Patsy Stone]

7. Oh, how I wish I could be there.

dc space was also partly comprised of the barber shop owned by Judge John Sirica's father.

Factoid.

9353: :loveya:

Iron Cross
Government Issue
Fugazi

Those were good times.

[swag]

8. Wow. Look what I just found.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=144146670

Looks like Bruce and Vance are at it again. Sad no Jason or Dan.

[HuskerDU]

9. 20 years ago I saw Fire Party open for Marginal Man

at the DC Space Arcade.

[swag]

10. Wow, how fun.

I used to work with Kenny Inouye at Metro Messenger.

Never saw Marginal Man, though, sad to say.

Knew all the Fireparty people except for Natalie. Amy's in upstate New York now, last I heard Kate was in Louisiana (but that was 15 years ago), and I last saw Nicky about 10 years ago (she was in a great Seattle band called Mavis Piggott for a while).

Did you used to live there (or do you now? I guess I could check your profile).

[HuskerDU]

11. Yeah I lived in DC for about a year and a half.

I was 15 and had heard all about the legendary harDCore scene before moving there. Sadly, I only went to a couple of other shows while out there.

[swag]

12. Must have been 1985-86ish?

What neighborhood did you live in?

[HuskerDU]

13. End of '86 to around the middle of '88.

Lived in McLean VA. I don't like advertising it, but my step-dad was a Dem congressman at the time. He was one of the good guys!

[swag]

14. Pretty cool.

I was out in McLean once, blazing on LSD. Marveling at the manicured lawns and the lack of a soul in sight.

I may have met your step-dad; it's possible. I used to organize these big things at the Cannon House Office Building for AARP. Mostly they were feedfests for staffers and our national legislative volunteers, but a lot of bigshots would show up. Pete Stark, Paul Simon, etc.

[HuskerDU]

15. McLean lacked 'soul' pretty much 24/7! I had never been to a

place that didn't have corner bars or mom-n-pop stores. What McLean was then, most of the rest of the country is now unfortunately.

I hung around the Cannon House Office Building quite a bit. My step-dad's office was there and I worked 3-4 nights a week there. I really don't have a single contact in DC today, but back then it was nothing to chat with Senators and Congressmen every day. It was a staffer who took me to the DC Space Arcade to see Marginal Man.

I wonder if the place in the add is the same place I saw MM and FP play? I remember it being called the 'DC Space Arcade II' I believe. I do remember it having 2 sections- one for shows, and one strangely decorated like a 50's diner IIRC.

[swag]

16. Yeah, same place.

Part was the diner, and the other part was where they did shows.

I used to go down there for lunch sometimes.

Kind of a legendary place. I wonder if you've seen this book:

http://www.southern.com/southern/band/CYNTH/banned.html

The publisher and main photographer used to manage dc space. A few photos from dc space in there, I think.

[HuskerDU]

17. Were there 2 of 'em? I seem to remember the one I went to

being called DC Space Arcade II.

Looks like a cool book. I'm still pissed that I wasn't in DC when Minor Threat was around. They were the kings of hardcore IMO.

[swag]

18. I'll ask the experts.

[swag]

27. The former manager tells me

that there was only one dc space, and that was at 7th & E Sts. NW.

They may have advertised weirdly. I remember that as well. Shows were always at the same place.

[enigmatic]

19. wow

Something like that might actually get me to step foot in the US again; what a show!

[stuntcat]

20. ooooo thanks!!

I'm gonna show this my husband, he grew up here in Arlington and he used to go to shows in DC all the time! Mostly he moshed I think but he also saw Fugazi a lot of times which I'm totally jealous of. We go to concerts still but it's usually my idea, I'm gonna talk to him about this, I'm glad I saw the post.

[bikebloke]

21. What? No Betty!

Or Love Tractor?

And I'm sure there are others from the old 9:30 Club that have been buried with time.

*I read that Betty moved to New York.

[driver8]

22. Betty!!

With that hot bassist, Allison.

I did a college internship in DC in 1985...I used to go to the 9:30 Club all the time!

[swag]

23. Betty is still going.

My mother-in-law recently saw them in Helena.

I saw them open for 9353 when they were still called On Beyond Zebra.

Those crazy Ziff sisters (one used to work at the Olsen's records/Ritz Camera in Georgetown) and of course Alison Palmer, the bartender at the 930 on whom EVERYONE had the biggest crush.

[bikebloke]

26. Allison used to like dancing with me.

I didn't even have a sack over my head. The last time I chatted with at her was before I made my trip across South Asia back in the mid-80's.

[swag]

24. Here ya go.

http://www.hellobetty.com/

[swag]

25. Anybody remember the Dischord band The Holy Rollers?

Their drummer was a pal of mine back then, who later moved to SF and drummed for Tribe 8.

Now she lives a couple blocks away from me and we're roller derby buddies.

She's threatening to ask me to jam with her. She's a hell of a drummer, though, probably too good for me to play with.