After I moved to Richmond I was still eager to keep my Williamsburg roots intact (being that Williamsburg is the home of rock and roll after all) so my friend Mike Mehigan and I put out a cassette on ish west records, which was a spin off of the record label another friend, Joel Lindelof, had started up way back when. The ish tradition was one of home recording, quickly written and recorded songs, and a certain je ne sais quoi. These songs carried on in that tradition as most of them were by side-projects, a dying art form, I'm afraid. So without further ado, the Richmond side of "We're Not Dead Yet."



The Nordberg Redemption-The Chicago 7
Mechanical Parrot-Codename: Pegasus
Cream And Satan-The Vatican
Dehydra-David DiDonato
Disilluminati-Ebonite
Launch Of Saturn Rocket I-Perrier And The Perrys
Sean's Interlude-Sean Sutphin

Back in Williamsburg where I originally hail from, there's a long tradition of being bored out of your skull and needing entertainment so badly that you'll do whatever to get it. While old people get a kick out of prepackaged pseudo history, the seething underbelly needs more. It is in this spirit that I offer the next batch of songs. They are three covers done by some friends of mine. They bring back that innocent age, the 80's, when we were in elementary school and puberty was still a few years off.

Abracadabra-Mike Chapman
Easy Lover-Mike Chapman
You Belong To The City-Tom Jeremiah

When I first moved to Richmond in 1992, I met a lot of interesting people. Being from the sticks and not so sophisticated I knew nothing about such social movements as the Riot Grrrl phenomenon. I lived in the dorms with a womyn whom we nicknamed Mary the Militant due to her outspoken detestation of the patriarchy. She's the type of girl who would put out a zine on home abortion techniques, or deconstructing why in those little welcome kits the university gives new students the girls get pink razors and the boys blue. Anyway she hooked me up with Heavens to Betsy's demo tape. It's real primitive and raw and definitely much "punker" than a lot of hardcore music I've heard. Some of you might recognize "My Secret" from the split 7" K records put out with Bratmobile on the flipside.

Never Going Back
Shame
Haunting
My Secret
Factory
Baby's Gone Away
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There have been a lot of great bands to have come out of Richmond over the years and as a regular feature I'm going to profile some of them. For the premiere I'm going to share some songs from Chutney. This is their final recording circa 1995 featuring David LaDuke singing instead of Jay Seay. The rest of the line-up is as always, Rydell Bixby on Drums, the Professor on Guitar, and Clint Bagwell on Bass. I have no clue what any of the songs are called. Sorry.

Chutney 1
Chutney 2
Chutney 3
Chutney 4
Chutney 5

So I decided to start up a blog to go along with the radio show. For the first post I'm going to put up some of my favorite songs I've recorded over the years. In no particular order.

This Pants-The Bunny Rabbits
Hot Love-Kojak
Wired Shut-Triskaidekaphilia
Bloodbath In Shafer-Typecast
Livin' Fat-Black Emmanuelle
Grudge Match '94-Jolly Mortals
Most Murderous-John Swart