Conflict - Live At Fenders Ball Room - Long Beach Ca. 1985

why the fuck wasn't i alive in 1895 again.

 

Because your parents were not even born yet

 

And somehow I doubt you missed much punk then... 1895.

Working on the second part of a documentation about political punk in the early 80's in our area, like the mythical "freizeit 81", I found lots of footage in the archives of local tv-stations and the bavarian state television. It's quite some efford to convince them to contribute stuff for free, but I'm still surprised what gems of my long forgotten youth are catching dust in deserted basements - maybe it's the same in Long Beach?

 

fuck me :/.... 1985

 

If "mia san dageng" is what you call the "first part" - I would love to know where the politix/freizeit part is hidden?

And STEAM-PUNK - I wonder that somebody remembers it too - too bad that it was more for the girls...

 

Is there any footage or recordings of Body Count at all? (The Punk one obviously, not the "Cop Killer" one)

 

Fooling around with google for "Fenders Ballroom" I found this one:
http://tribes.tribe.net/47b97d83-0dfd-4 ... 53-f479c72

It already started some years ago, but there are still replies: they found Fender's daughter and the manager of the Ballroom, lots of people who were at gigs there are still around - maybe they know someone who knows someone who...

 

any luck yet punkmar?

 

I take it no one has responded to your emails? all I still can find is just the damn conflict part which we've all seen a million times...

 

haha wow, that fucking figures. it's always something ridiculous like that. well, best of luck!

 

Have you asked colin jerwood? only contact i can find is on FB worth a try

 

Dunno if anyone got back to you on this, but if it helps i have a compilation tape from 1984 called 'Inner ear damage' that has 3 BODY COUNT songs on it ('Deadly Reign', 'Slaughterhouse', 'Honorable Death'). The comp was put out by a guy called 'Steve' who also did a zine i think, did a few other comps (eg 'Sanitized for your protection' which i think had The Iconoclast on it). He was also involved in trying to get an Anarchist centre up and running in the LA area. The 'Slaughterhouse' track also appears on the 'The A.L.F. is watching and theres nowhere to hide' comp lp (has local and overseas bands, 'Naturecore' are on there and a copy is currently for sale on Discogs). I was told by a friend of the band that the 3 tracks recorded for 'Inner ear damage' was pretty much their 'demo'. GLYCINE MAX from Long Beach used to cover the BODY COUNT song 'Unaware of mass destruction from the sky', and the drummer ('Rick' i think, nice guy) continued to play in bands, i think he did a stint in FINAL CONFLICT and was in BEAT TO DEATH the one and only time i saw them (also featured ex-GLYCINE MAX). Get in touch if you want a copy, i am trying to digitise some old So Cal peace punk from back then just to keep it from dying, i am not selling it.

 

I Knew DEADLY REIGN from Texas had some connection to BODY COUNT, thanks for filling in some details regarding that!