xjustinxschwierx

Justin was my SS and sent me some pretty cool and random stuff. 

 

 

1) A Pirates Press 36"x48" 1500 piece puzzle with a very large poster. 

2) 2002 Remastered Version of Dag Nasty's "Can I Say"

3) Cheap Trick's "In Color"

4) Cheech & Chong's "Sister Mary Elephant / Wink Dinkerson"

5) Journey's "Separate Ways (World/s Apart) / Frontiers"

6) The Venture's "Hawaii Five-O" 

7) A long note with explanations of each item which said there was a mix CD in the package but I couldn't find it - was it stuck in somewhere?

 

Overall I'm pretty happy with the package. The puzzle is really sweet, I wasn't expecting it. That Dag Nasty album is one of my favorite punk records of all time as well - it has been on my eBay save list for a while now as I want the original copy, but I never wind up winning it. You really hit the nail on the head with this album, it is my favorite work from Dave Smalley. I am interested in how the remastering sounds. I heard bad things about the Dischord repress hence why I keep trying to grab an original. I actually tried my damnedest to get reasonably priced tickets for their show with Shawn in DC for my birthday this year, but wound up in Asbury Park for the Bouncing Souls festivities instead. I actually never really gave Cheap Trick  a solid chance, but I do like the song "Hello There" so I will give a spin. Cheech and Chong 7" reminds me of my Dad as well, he got me into them and Beavis & Butthead at a young age much to the dismay of my Mom. Journey is one of those ah what the hell 45s I can throw on randomly. The Ventures "Hawaii Five-O" is a pretty sweet surf song and I haven't heard the B-Side yet. 

 

Thanks, Justin! And let me know about that CD I'd be interested in listening to it. 

Ah crap, I must have forgotten to put it in there, my office is a mess, i'll find that and send it out right away!

 

the Journey 7" was pretty random, and was one of the first things I found and was hoping to find a bunch of cool random singles. It's a fun song.

don't forget the punk-ska band the Supaflies! (FBR001, if memory serves)

 

There's a Pilfers 7"??!!

 

the only series 2 records I've received are

 

Vic Ruggiero / Chewing on Tinfoil

Green Room Rockers / King Django

Dave Hillyard / The Fad

Suburban Legends / Five Iron Frenzy

 

 

anxiously awaiting the last two

Pilfers / the Snails split 7"!

STOKED

found this site hosting these tunes:

http://captainsdead.com/bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-live-at-the-main-point.html

fuck.

well, I'm delivering the Pilfers 7"s to them in Chicago today, I assume Flood has mailed out all the subscriptions.

Not sure if anyone here would be interested in this?

 

hit me up with some offers.

 

waiting to hear back from Fifth Element, Rhymsayers merch company about a wrong item in an order, 2 emails in, waiting.................

I was hoping I would like Pity Party more, but the VBS songs are awesome.

PP songs will grow on you - I think they're great, plus the song on the comp rules too.

Yeah, that's how I saw it, too! Doesn't seem too bad at all. What's Kickstarter's rate?

 

 

i think it's 5% +you lose 3-5% to amazon payments for the transaction processing.

I think GGR has overcome a lot of the aforementioned issues people have had with them in the past.

I've done a handful of records with them and they always turn out great.

Capital's Givers Takers LP

Cutman's Universal Laws LP

the Heat Tape's 7"

Olehole's Guacamole 7"

Eastland Disaster's 7"

the Vacation Bible School / Pity Party 7"

 

one time, part of a pressing of 7" was warped and it was immediately fixed/replaced

anyone have a copy they want to part with?

These Vacation Bible School / Pity Party split 7"s on color vinyl are up for sale now!

clear blue & brown, each /150

Distro: http://undercomm.storenvy.com/collections/127987-newest-releases

Streaming, digital purchases: http://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/vbs-pp-split

Seeing them on Saturday!

i'll walk down to the one in downtown Chicago are report back...

Infest was a solid record, singer was really nice when I ran into him outside a show once, he ended up getting me and some friends in for free just because he remembered meeting a friend I was with at the Warped Tour.

We’re letting the cat out of the bag! Yesterday I posted this picture on the label Facebook page, dropped a few hints, entertained some guesses at what this might be:

Well today, we’re going to just get it out in the air and let you know that we are officially re-releasing the WiNEPRESS discography – a classic nugget of early 90′s Chicagoland pop punk for the first time ever on vinyl…well… as the collection – It’s an exciting day!

Our forefather label Harmless Records originally put together this compilation back in 2001 and it was released on CD only, the band played a few reunion shows around it’s release as well. At the time I was working at Ryan from Winepress’s store in Lansing, IL called Bossa Nova, and until the show(s) happened, I only barely knew who the band was. That first reunion show at Off the Alley strongly cemented the band deep in my head and in my heart. A perfect example of why I have such a fondness for weird band discographies stems from this era (not long after this I started wearing down the Ambition Mission folks to let me put their discography out, come to think of it – the picture of Jake and Bryan in drag in the CD is from that same weekend at Off the Alley). They were a band from Chicago that I knew more in a historical sense than their music, and having a guy like Scott @ Harmless helping get everything in one place, reminding anyone that cared to track it down that yeah, they did some cool, fun songs, now you can hear them in one place. I always appreciated these efforts.

I reconnected with the guys at the 2010 reunion show with the Mushuganas at Windy City Sound Clash Fest, where they played a mesmerizing set. I hadn’t seen any of them in a long time, but it was like a day hadn’t gone by. When it was announced that Winepress was going to play Ian’s Party 2013, I reached out to Ryan with the idea of “wouldn’t it be cool if we put the discography out on vinyl for the show?” He told me that would be amazing because the band wanted to bill this as their 20th anniversary show too! Excellent! So we were off and running. I quickly made calls, send masters off to the plant, got the records pressed (we made 100 blank label copies for the show) and that pretty much brings us up to today.

Never a dull moment in UnderComm-land…

I owe Ryan big-time, through his store (that I was a customer first and an an employee second) he made me buy Jawbreaker’s “24 Hour Revenge Therapy”. I’m pretty sure I bought Pegboy’s “Strong Reaction/Three Chord Monte” CD there too. Monumental. Life. Changing. Music. Came into my life at that time; Ryan will always have an association with those things, so to me this is just another part of returning the gift. It’s also Ryan’s birthday today, so this all worked out pretty conveniently, don’t you think?

I couldn’t be more honored to

a. re-release this into the world

b. directly re-release a Harmless Records album

c. Get to see some old friends smile and see them play some songs for old times sake – for many people that never had a chance to see them in the first place (it’s important to remember that I was in those shoes in 2001 too).

Here’s the new cover art:

We made a facebook page, please go LIKE that if you’re into that sort of thing: www.facebook.com/winepressband

I put up the album streaming on our bandcamp page: undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-recordings

Once we finalize the insert art I’ll put that up with the album as a pdf attachment and I’ll enable the download/purchase ability of the digital version, and I’ll keep you all posted on when you can pre-order the LP – I’m going to order a few hundred more after Ian’s Party with printed labels too.

hey, yu! everything is good over here! i hope all is well with you, too! i've missing your smiling face! :]

i'm glad that my existence is still a point of contention! (though both sad and relieved that i don't see a giant allison face in your sig every time you post now bahaha)

the same person who posts all my responses on here, runs my twitter account, and posts innane status updates about Buffy on my facebook is also in charge of penning witty responses to any text messages sent to me. ;]

It's true I always look forward to the "Shit Allison's Parents Say" tweets

girl, you never left (my social media universe)

Les Mis is bad, saw a portion of the screener of it last week that the gf was watching while I was wandering the house working.

 

DU was fucking rad, Tarantino has never lost his step.

I occasionally follow links other people post, but I almost never go there on my own anymore.

 

Dying Scene does a good job too, but too much of their content is re-postings from other places.

GOING TO SEE M----F'N DOOMTREE!

Happy Gilligan's Island will be included. Wasn't sure if it was gonna be kept off or not for legal reasons.

We'll be seeking out and paying the royalties on that song...

i totally missed reading that the Bruce Lee Band reissue would have bonus tracks.

 

They're actually on the CD, just unlisted tracks.