Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments appreciation thread

[Swampy]

Bradx's Joyless Knothead would be Wisconsin's response to Ohio's Ego Summit...  A supergroup of Wisconsin losers!!!

[Swampy]

The sad thing is, I've been thinking of it:

Get together:
me (naturally)
Kevin De Broux
BradX
Mike Zink
Casey Buhr
Gustav Graf
Pete Hendricks
etc.

and just play eachothers songs and make a record. It'd be tits. But to get everyone to do it...

[grandmaster satch and the bi-curious five]

aluminum krypton poopshovel?

eh, but it doesn't really matter, killdozer still trumps anything the other 49 states can offer up. 

[Swampy]

eh, but it doesn't really matter, killdozer still trumps anything the other 49 states can offer up. 

True on just about every level possible.

[Swampy]

To add to the orignal idea of this thread, "Old Guy Lo Fi Cry" is really fucking good.  TJSA rule again. Never put out a bad record, even at the end.  I wish I'd seen em' more than just once (especially since I only seen em' in the echo pit of Chicago's Cabaret Metro.. an upfront small bar experience woulda turned my nipples into rockets, bitch!!!)...

[Swampy]

Let me tell you a story...

A day after the only day I saw Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Aluminum Knot Eye played a gig to mostly straigt-edge skinheads.... A fight nearly ensued because we "didn't play fast enough and were drinking onstange"... It was a fuckoing basement!  Just when things were getting violent (1997 was a difficult year for straight-edge-skins, I guess), a friend of ours escorted the potential brawlers outside and when they came back in they were crying... What the fuck? Oh well!  We continued on with our shit (and,  at the time it was shit)...  But the next day we got burglarized, losing instruments and recorded documents and such...  Shit happens, and we dealt with it...  TJSAments are/were gods!!!

[erickelric]

and when they came back in they were crying...

Oh, those were some of my EmoSkin crew.

Reminds me of hanging out with a skinhead buddy of mine just post-high school and watching him drink a 30 pack of Coors, eating a hit of acid, and then falling asleep. Years later he almost beat a dude to death.

[erickelric]

I only saw TJSA once, when I lived in Columbus. It was AnywayFest. Gaunt and Geraldine were also on the bill. Well, I might've seen 'em once more at Bernie's but fuck if I can remember for sure. I do remember a Cheater Slicks show there and getting crazy drunk and screwing the scene queen. Memories!

[Swampy]

It sounds like you had more opportunities than me, so fuck you!

[Swampy]

THis whole thread was created for what I like to call a REASON!!!

[mikehunchback]

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments are nothing short of amazing.  "Bait and Swith" is masterful.

Killdozer is still beyond though.  The greatest band of all time.

[IS]

Shave the Baby comp staid in the car cd player for weeks. There's one song on that comp though that's really really bad, don't remember the bands name now and I'm too lazy to look it up.

greenhorn? 

Pica Huss?

I was referring particularly to Big Red Sun. God, what garbage. But yeah, you could say there's quite a few weaker tracks on the comp, but then the good one's are so great that they make up for it. Besides the TJSA tracks I really dig that Great Plains song at the end of the cd.

[Scrod Prickknee]

Me 'n a few others here have been very impressed with/well-schooled in all things Ohio, so when I drove Pink Reason to Columbus, everyone was looking at me weird when I was rambling about "there's Mike Rep! There's Ron House!" and all that. They didn't seem to share the thought that Mike's not just some weird old wasted dude, he's a legend! To me! I got to hang out with him quite a bit, smoked his j's and Shaun & I finished off his whiskey flask and talked about the Packers with him for an hour. A serious high point for me in terms of meeting people I never thought I'd meet. Never got around to Ron, and was bummed. But I saw him! He looks like a science teacher now. Awesome! Some buddies & I listened to Great Plains all the time in college, and when I moved back to 'Point a few years later, we blasted TJSA all the time and Skaught & I played 'em on our punk show weekly and got the other doofus jocks to play 'em on regular rotation ("it's a major label release, dude, people love this shit!"). Long live Ohio, hi in the middle and round on both ends.

[Swampy]

I really wanna try to go to Columbus this year.  I've never been...

[Scrod Prickknee]

By "jocks" I meant "DJs," I've always loved sports and have no problem with people who play 'em or watch 'em all the time. Jocks rule! And yeah, you should go to Columbus some time, make sure the people you wanna meet show up and you'll have a wondermous time.