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    time Posted July 6, 2008 * Comments(1)

    OK, so I haven’t actually gotten around to doing much of anything here yet. My initial goal was to go through my enormous 7″ collection of records from Florida (and non-florida) bands I acquired at gigs in the 80’s and 90’s when my band was playing with a lot of other Florida bands as well as national touring bands.

    Call me a purist, but for me, the Florida bands have always had more heart, originality and true DIY ethic. Maybe it’s a symptom of growing up in South Florida where national touring bands only venture with caution due to the agressive sun-drenched Florida crowds full of surfers, skaters, dopers, moshers, skinheads, fashion punks and whatever else crawls out in the middle of the might to go see shows at some dive. One thing I do know is that Florida bands are always more interesting, even if most of them break up before they ever get an ational exposure.

    Currently, I’m up in the Philadelphia area for the summer and my vinyl collection is down in Florida, so I’m going to have to wing this for the moment and rely on the contributions of YOU PEOPLE out there to help out with some information and history about punk bands in Florida from the 1960’s until today.

    If you have any information on the following bands (or any other bands not listed here), please either post a comment here on this article or contact us via email at floridap [at] floridapunkrock.com with any links, show memories, flyers, information, pictures, cover scans, mp3’s, video etc… All contributors will receive full credit for whatever they send in, so if you have a website or are in a band yourself, please inclde a url so we can link back to you.

    So, Here’s the list of bands FPR is currently seeking any information on:

    The Nightcrawlers The Eat LOAD
    Postface Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa Public Execution
    Freaks With Beaks Holy Terrors Ed Matus Struggle
    Rugged Edge The Cichlids Gothic Playground
    The Abusers Rock City Angels Failure Face
    Dead Patriot Against All Authority Less Than Jake
    Pink Lincolns The Crumbs Chickenhead
    Flaming Midget Jac off Jill Collapsing Lungs
    Charlie Pickett Rat Bastard The Stun Guns
    The Slut Boys Jobbernowl Nobuhjest
    Secret Service Los Canadiens Cavity
    Harry Pussy Childress Timescape Zero
    Hudson GraveTree Radio Baghdad
    New Found Glory Trash Monkeys Slinky
    Flying Popes The Bad Habits Irish Car Bomb
    Gus Candy Snatchers Fuck Boyz
    No Fraud Red Soda Snatch the Pebble
    King 7 & Soulsonics Medicine Ball Radon
    Floor Blanket Anchorman
    Tension Nipple Splat
    Bingo Mut Out of Spite Nuclear Beer
    Vacant Andys Drive Choir US Decline

    If you know of any other great Florida bands who aren’t on this list - contact us.

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    FloridaPunkRock.com is Launched

    time Posted August 2, 2007 * Comments(1)

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    Mark this day on your calendar because it is the beginning of a mind numbing journey into the past, present and future of all that is punk in the backward state of Florida. Many of us who have found ourselves stuck in a land that time didn’t forget, it just ignored it, have only our music and like minded friends to alleviate an otherwise tragic existence. Most people in other parts of the country don’t realize how desolate the true underground music scene is when you live in an area so far off the beaten path that the majority of touring bands don’t want to bother venturing into the wasteland. For nearly 3 decades, the outcasts, miscreants and deviants of Florida’s nether regions have amused themselves with their local music scenes populated with bands that don’t give a rat bastard’s ass about the quest for fame and fortune instead choosing to drink themselves into a blissful oblivion with ears ringing from high decible squalor and unabashed raunch.

    Yes, I love the Florida underground punk music scene (or lack thereof) and all of it’s strange and beautiful nocturnal inhabitants who have laboured on shitty sound systems in dive bars in the middle of such exotic locations such as Little Hati and Ybor City. One quickly learns it’s not all about braving the shotgun toting rednecks or the quasi-nazi skinheads or even the hair twirling, spandex wearing metalheads who will stop at nothing to disrupt the pleasures of being engulfed in a wave of mutilating noise. It’s about the passion, drive and originality that separates those who think in pack mentalities from those of us who think for ourselves.


    With that in mind, I’ll leave you with a few quotes to ponder….


    bullet “What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.” - Henry Miller

    bullet“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.” - William S. Burroughs

    bullet“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live” - Charles Bukowski

    bullet“The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstone.” - Bob Marley


    Cheers,
    David X. Smith

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