More Scans of KL

Most pics posted here were scanned with a high quality scanner.  Feel free to take em!

This last pic is just a cool pic of Mike from COC.  I found it on the internet and just thought it looked cool.

Intentions of Hate- First Year of Hate- Demo 1993

        I forgot I had this demo.  Found it in a case of old tapes.  I think Ryland Luss gave this to me or left it at my house.

        Intentions of Hate were proof positive that there was still a LVHC scene happening after Fuck Shit Piss broke up.  They've even got the LVHC logo on the demo!  Released in 93 but sounding firmly entrenched in 80's hardcore.  Speedy hardcore with attitude.  Pretty fuckin tight too.  Speed was the name of the game with their sound and in many ways their lifestyle.  


       These guys were the anti-thesis of another local band back then the Wholes.  Where the Wholes were a band on acid and downers IOH was a band on speed.  Everyone was on some drug back then.  As innocent as it seemed it later ended just like it always does.  Still the music has more personality then that straight edge shit so I'm not complaining.  But it was a bad hangover and Hardcore was on it's way out with death metal soon to take it's momentum as far as fast hard music is concerned.


         Some may argue that the death/grind/black metal scenes that would come later were an evolution of the sound.  Maybe that's partially true. Hardcore could never lay too much claim to innovation.  But I think IOH and some of the Vegas bands from that distant past were able to distinguish a voice and sound that was unique.  I know it's got more for me to identify with than the death metal formulas which would later become codified and rigid in the ensuing years.

       Intentions of Hate had all the elements of LVHC style.  A freak scene of a band with a commitment to speed and energy.  Nigel, obnoxious, drunk, with solid beats.  Sean Patrick with the snakelike bass.  Kyle with maniac eyes throttling his guitar at 90mph.  Paul French delivering the hardcore goods vocally.  I totally get the Born To Lose, don't give a fuck, Motorhead vibe from these recordings.  


      While this demo doesn't re-write the rules of hardcore it still holds up as a good document of the time.  It was a fractured time and IOH was one of the few bands still flying the hardcore flag.  These guys might have been among the last practitioners of this sound but that's generalizing.  I'm sure there were dozens more bands like these guys who were burning the candle at both ends and to this day I'd imagine there's still hundreds of these types of bands floating around which you'll never hear about.  Well maybe dozens anyway.   
      

    IOH had a practice space in Nigel's garage known as the Schmegma or less formally the Schmeg.  He lived there with his Aunt Wheezy.  Maybe it was his stepmom?  Great place.  I hung out there a few times and I'm sure I saw IOH practice there.  I accidentally threw Nigel's bass drum on the ground after drinking one too many beers and then taking a dose.  I could swear I still owe Tim $5 for that dose.  Sorry Tim, get in touch I'll send you the $5.  Did I ever see IOH play a show anywhere else?   There weren't many shows at that time anyway although it seems like the Las Vegas Music Co-Op was still promoting shows at the Henderson Elks Lodge although I don't recall ever seeing IOH play the Elks.    

      It seems like the tensions brought on by the Nazi invasion of the scene were starting to subside.  Maybe I just think that because I stopped hanging out with my anti-nazi friends and so I stopped seeing it.  These same "anti-nazi" friends made claims to the affect that IOH was a "nazi" band.  Those anti-nazis were an ignorant bunch not much different from their nazi counterparts.  This band didn't give two shits about politics.  They were into drugs.  


       At that time I was disgusted by the whole nazi/anti-nazi/us versus them bullshit.   Hanging out with these guys was a good anti-dote to that.  We never talked politics there.  We just smoked weed, drank beer and listened to hard fast music.  There was a whole scene based around the Schmeg but none of the band names are coming to me right now.  Nice Sucks/Leper Bureocracy shit I know there were more.  There was also a glam rock hair band that practiced next door to the Schmeg for a bit which was kind of hilarious.

      I haven't seen any of these guys in more than 15 years.   I know nothing of the whereabouts of these characters.  I hope they are still kickin it.  Someone out there will appreciate hearing this again.   

Download Intentions of Hate Demo  


If that link doesn't work download each song individually here:


1. intro
2.  Don't Tell Me To Smile
3.  Bad Neck of the Woods
4.  Enforce the World
5.  Intentions of Hate
6.  Madder Than Mad
7.  Self Exploitation
8.  IOH insert
9.  IOH Lyric sheet
10  IOH cassette cover

Running out of material and time.

        I might be going back to school next week.  I haven't fully decided so this blog might see a lot less activity in the next few months.  You know how these blogs go.  I see one that's cool and then it's suddenly gone!  I suggest downloading what you can while you can because it might not be here tomorrow!  So yeah blogs are todays zines!  Pretty fucking cool!

        Hopefully the effort I put into this might start a ripple effect and get other people to digitize their old music.  You don't have to send it to me just post it somewhere yourself so I can get it!  If this does motivate you and you have something you want to submit here then it would be really cool if you digitize it and send it to me.  Otherwise it might take me a while to get to it.  Still waiting to get the Substance D demo and some other stuff from Zack Arnold.  Maybe it will come in the mail next year sometime?

        I'm running out of stuff to post anyway.  Hopefully I'll get the Leap Frog Society/Catapult split up here sometime soon?  This zine isn't a blanket Vegas thing.  I only post ridiculously obscure shit that I want to hear.  Not shit that's solely obscure.  So don't send me the Junkie Nuns demo.  Don't send me the Atta Boy Skip demo.  Don't send me the Doom Snake Cult demo.  Actually- strike that.  Go ahead and send the Doom Snake Cult Demo.  Why not?

        Anyway stay tuned for more music sometime in the unforeseeable future.  Current want list:  Blue Ruin demo, Foot Long Demo, Atomic Gods demos, Disrupt demo, Hairball/Forehead split demo.  Any surprising recordings from 91.5 KUNV circa 84-95 especially Rock Avenue shit.  In the meantime enjoy these scans from old issues of Keep Laughing.

Lady "Trike" demo on green vinyl

    Lady was one of the more unique bands around 92-94.  Somehow I never got to see them play.  The band was Checko Salgado ex-Schizoid-Bass, Greg Higgins ex-Schizoid- Guitar, and Mike Taf Drums.  This was their first demo that came out in 92.

    I never got to see em but I really loved their second demo "Vicki Campbell Live"  I think that's what it was called.  I'm posting this mainly to see if someone else will post their second one.  I'd really like to hear it again.

    I recall hearing that 2nd demo and seeing comparisons to "shoegazer" bands like the Swirlies which seems really funny in retrospect.  Super pop sounds but obnoxious and raw as fuck.  There was another mystery local demo "released" around that time from a band named Foot Long who also had a similar Swirlies vibe to them.  I want to say that Todd Flanagan was in that band but I' unsure.  Wish I could hear that one again!
 
    This first Lady demo has some of those pop qualities and the music is good but it sounds like a band just starting to find it's sound.  Some good standout songs especially Pinto Bean and Don't Crumb.  Lady was not a hardcore band in the strictest sense of the term but what else could you call it?  Certainly not metal.  It got a good review in the Maximum Rock and Roll demo reviews at the time for those of you keeping score.

    It sounds like the band let the tape roll and did the whole thing in one take.  I broke the songs up when I transferred it so it kind loses some of that feel.  Hopefully I put them in the right order.

    Checko gave me this tape years ago.  It has some cool stickers and a photo negative of the band.  That's the pictures you see here.  After Lady broke up Checko and Mike went on to form Catapult, another stellar Vegas band.

    I heard that they sold out the Huntridge which was quite a feat for a local band back then.  Again, another show I missed.  I think I was busy listening to Carcass and Geto Boys while working at Odyssey Records.

Download Lady- Trike Demo 92
if that don't work for ya download each song individually below.

1. Cut Off
2. Yes We Have N Donuts
3. Hurtin For Certain
4.  Pinto Bean
5.  Don't Crumb
6.  Big Stu's
7.  Bonus