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But did you eat lasagna with marks mom?

Man +44 videos take me back. I love that band and that era so much. Still heartbroken that I never got to see them live. I missed a couple shows in my state but I assumed there would be another chance to see them later...

I still remember those AOL sessions with The Game he did with 1 hand too. I also love how he used to smoke a cig (which he said had weed in it) at the beginning of “No It Isn’t” during the slow part, then would toss it and go OFF. I am +44 life for life, no doubt.

Yeah I always try to play the songs the way Tom plays them when I play blink songs on guitar, even if playing them differently would be easier in some cases and sound just as good. Lots of downstrokes/plucks mostly. It's just fun to try to do it like the person who wrote it.

You can even see in the video, he has the drum part down so well, that he is 100% focused on the stick twirl. Thats so tough. Meanwhile Matt can't even learn a couple fucking lyrics.

I am trying to learn the drum part for Darkside and play it like Travis does in the video. I have pretty much given up. In theory its very simply. Bass/snare Bass snare with a little tom tom action thrown in. But Travis makes it complex by playing the entire thing with his left hand which is generally very weak especially with Hi Hat work. It really forces you to work the left arm and train it. The Tom tom part is slightly different on the second fill than the other fills. Travis substitutes a Tom for a bass hit. I got all the above. The problem is the stick twirl while doing all that. They are like polar opposites. Imagine patting your head and rubbing your stomach times 1000. I don't think I will get it unless I want to devote 8 hours a day for a month to practice. Even Travis, as amazing as he is, struggles to keep the stick going as it starts to slow when the camera comes around the kit. Travis does not play the song live in this way. This is the type of genius and analysis that the non musicians simply can't appreciate. Because the music itself, in my eyes, is only half of it. Actually understanding it, opens to the mind on a whole different level.

They were CPM songs that were, I believe, unrecorded by them at the time and they had broken up. Chris played drums for them for a little while, I think their drummer went away to college. They sang backup on a few JCCC recordings including Niagra. We (JCCC) had signed to BYO but didn't have enough songs for the album so we did those with CPM's permission. I think they got back together later and recorded them on their own album. Sorry again about before, I've taken my meds so I'll be good.

the claps are the best! In other news, i got the neighborhoods vinyl i ordered and listened today to that bad boy. Fucking hell, that album ages like a fine wine. Love everything about it, including the struggle they had back then which is audible in the song arrangement. But it's an exact display of what blink was at that time and i fucking love it!

scott briefly left the band that year to move to reno, nevada with his family. they briefly had tryouts. the only person that’s previously been known to have drummed with blink was a guy named mike krull, who is thanked in the cheshire cat liner notes. scott rejoined the band, IIRC, in early ‘95, flying in for shows. later that summer, he moved in with mark at mark’s moms house and that’s when the band began to take off.

So excited for the battle of old dudes to prove who was really in the scene when it was a happening.

The dude is just a beast

My favorite Saves The Day song ❤️ The chorus is insane, love it so much especially the "Did you know my sweet ?" part

oh they weren't manufactured all at once. both tom and mark are quoted as saying they would go to the plant and pick up batches at a time as they were made. pat just said that, in total, about ~1,000 black / white tapes were produced. anne elaborates on this in her book.

given your pics and your backstory, i'd say the discogs listing should be amended to include the translucent red tape. what do you think @boxelder? the reason the other listings were taken out is the number of tape runs cannot be confirmed, and that affects the way people price items on discogs. so if we don't have any information on the run amount, one shouldn't be made up, but we should list the red tape as authentic. BTW the lyric sheets for the mass black tape w/ white text run from 1994 (the one pat secor says was ~1,000) were on lavender paper. here is mark assembling them in the spring of 1994, and a pile of the tapes on the floor (both pics are from anne hoppus's book): what you've told us suggests that mark gave you a buddha of a shorter run with impromptu inserts. i would think these were duped in smaller amounts, ad hoc, for say, securing a new drummer in your case or booking shows or for friends or what have you. the main run of ~1,000 as shown in the pictures which pat financed were the ones sold at shows.

Off-white, kinda greyish. It's back in the box, I'll have to dig it out again to be sure. It's thicker than regular paper. Thanks for the postimage site. I'm going to take photos of all this stuff with my wifes camera. I'm selling my 1961 Slingerland set and the 1977 set I played on Niagra Falls. I've got JCCC posters and stuff that probably aren't worth anything. I don't know.

Those are from my phone, I tried to minimize the reflection from the metallic red on tape.

@ChuckDee that's the insert alright. there are two versions; one with a blurry performance shot by kerry key, and the other is the goofy band shot with the fence. what color paper is your lyrics sheet?

found other event to add for this date (as well as the letter promoting Apple Shampoo) 4/7/1997 : Apple Shampoo is released as a CD single in Australia via Thru Rapido.

you're mike mcauliffe? i still have 'Til Niagara Falls... love that record. i saw JCCC at SOMA a few times. i don't really understand the hostility from all these posts. i relied on pat secor for my info, and i try to steer collectors clear of fakes. that's it. if we have detailed information from you that clears up the record on the red variant tape, mike then that's terrific. could you does us a favor and post a lot more photos, at better quality?

Deducted points for not actually using a picture of JR and Jerry Lawler

Davey dooby doo where are yewww. I don't doubt the legitamcy this is really cool @ChuckDee

All The Small Things also aged well. It was only hated on because it was so popular. It's actually pretty chill.

It's aged so damn well.

There was a period when Scott moved away.

This is wrong 6/11/1995: Punk Sucks, a compilation album featuring "M+M's", is released. It's later the subject of a bitter dispute on the newsgroup alt.punk between Mark, Tom, and the CD's distributor, Dave Quinn. Dave of Liberation Records is NOT Dave Quinn. You are also wrong about the Buddha tape.

No offense but DaveyJones is wrong and he said he didn't see Blink until 1995. How would he know about the tapes the band sold in 1994? There were definitely multiple runs of tapes. The black and white tape is probably a 1995 run, this red tape is from 1994 before DaveyJones ever saw the band. Remember, in just a matter of months Blink went from playing small sideshows to playing Main stage shows. Len Soma had every person entering his club name the band they were there to see and that's how the bands got paid and how they moved up to mainstage shows. The color inserts from 1994 were printed on a inkjet printer and not a professional offset printer. Nothing like people who were not there in 1994 rewriting the history they weren't a part of. Davey Tiltwheel could verify me, and probably Jay from Spazzboy he was around back then too. I think Jay worked at Soma.

Yeah, using drum triggers. Its pretty cool. Also amazing how much more confidence Mark exudes back in those days. What happened?

I'll never forget when Travis played with two feet and one hand with +44.

Just listened again and my god I need to hear First Time/NHTSO live. I will go nuts in the pit on NHTSO tbh lol

Thanks @Ghent I about had a heart attack when I scrolled past that at work yesterday jesus christ haha

i know his range doesn't really vary, and he keeps returning to familiar melodies. but damn part of the appeal of jimmy eat world has to be the passion with which jim sings.

I remember really liking the singles from that album. I definitely need to give it another spin too, I barely remember it. edit: just listened to it again. I forgot how much I loved The End Is Beautiful!

Anyone remember these?

He's furious that he missed out on all those blink groupies.

Run Away

Ransom has slowly turned to ashes It takes 10th place. Here are the remaining songs off Nine: The First Time Heaven Darkside Generational Divide Run Away Black Rain Pin The Grenade No Heart To Speak Of Hungover You Hungover You kick it down

This album thoroughly fucking sucks. My god. Mark, be ashamed of yourself.