MNPunk

Post #100!

No music today.  Just an update on the future of the site, and a look back at the first 100 posts.  Not bad for a site that got started just a few months ago.

Looking back, I’ve posted a lot of the bands that I grew up listening to, and found a few that were either after my active time in the scene or that I had just plain missed out on the first time around.  One of the first posts is an exclusive to the site (meaning that I ripped it myself and I’ve never seen anyone else with it, and that was an early demo tape of the 4 piece St. Paul version of The Strike.  Great early recording that I bought off the band after playing a show at Hamline or Macalaster or something.  $2 back then.    There have also been a few good YouTube posts as well; The Dirt Poor U-haul stunt from the 90’s, and the 2000’s version, In Defense playing inside a Taco Johns are both classics.

Looking forward, I’m just now starting to crack my archive of demo tapes.  I’ve got about 5 ripped now, and more planned.  Lots of punk and metal type stuff.  It’s becoming obvious now that I need to get those demo tapes transferred soon, as my cassette deck is not long for this world.  If anyone has some suggestions on what software to use to rip these tapes and records, quicker, please leave it in the comments of this post.  I’m currently using a 10 year old copy of Sound Forge that I bought way back in the day.  There has to be something more automated than this by now. Also on my list of things to do is to scan in all my old show flyers.  I’ve got a box of them in the basement so you’ll start to see those show up in the coming weeks as well.  once I’ve gotten through that, then I’ll move on to the vinyl.  I ripped most of the stuff I really like (and assumed would never make it to CD) a decade ago, so that stuff is ready to go now….even if a lot of it has made it to CD anyway.  Anyone that knows me, also knows I’ve got a TON of video footage.  I plan to rebuild the BasementShows.com site similar to this one soon, so that stuff has a permanent home on the interwebs.  Don’t be surprised if I re-skin this site too….I can’t stand the way the posts look.

So while a lot of the stuff I’ve posted so far, was linked off of other sites, a lot of the newer stuff will be my own rips.  For anyone wondering why I linked back to the original posting site, rather than just downloading their hard work, and re-posting it as my own….I just don’t think that’s very cool.  Plus I hope that you’ll visit the other sites and find more stuff that you like.  Anyway,  I hope you enjoy the site.  As always, if you know of any of these posts being available commercially, or if you’re in the band, or ran the lable that put them out and you want me to remove the links, just say the word.  I’m not trying to take a buck out of anyone’s pocket.  I just don’t want some of these great bands music to disappear with time.

Stay tuned.  Good things are ahead!

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