Away Awhile

It’s Porcelain Boys week @ MNPunk.com!

It should be no shock to anyone that knows me that the PB’s were my favorite local band back in the day.

This is the second incarnation of the PB’s.  Tom moved to Duluth, Erik switched to guitar, and Jason Knutson took over on drums.  So they suck right?  Reunions…especially with different band members…never work out, right?  Wrong.  This one CD gives a proper recording to many of the songs from the original lineup.  They even made note of Tom and included a picture of him in the CD.  Class act.  Musically it’s true to the original lineup if you account for the natural growth of the band.  Great mid-tempo melodic punk.  Pick this up now!

As a bonus, the link to the site below has also posted the Jettison CD, which is really the same band with a different drummer.  Quality pop-punk!

More PB’s tomorrow!

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Anyone that knows me, knows I love the Porcelain Boys.  I’ve shot hours of video for them.  I helped record their  second demo tape.  I even almost released a live record/tape  (which I years later finally edited down into what would have been a pretty great live record) that I recorded.   CD’s were really expensive back then, that’s why I say tape.

Anyway, Jettison is really just the Porcelain Boys.  I love these guys to death, but could never figure out why they would change their name just because they changed out one member.  The original PB’s was a 4 piece. Scott on Bass, Eric & Tom on Guitar and another kid (Brian maybe?) on drums.  I don’t think the drummer lasted even a year.  Eric moved to drums and the power trio line was cemented…at least for a few years.  Right before they broke up and Tom left the band, they brought in another guitarist, slowed everything way down…honestly…they needed to break up for the next phase of the band to happen.  Anyway, a few years later, with Tom gone,  Eric moved to back to guitar and they reform with the one and only Jason Knutson on drums.  What more could you ask for?  Jason is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet and a massive pop-punk nut (he did the cover art for the final Doc Hopper album) !!!

This lineup recorded the "…Away Awhile" album which saw re-recordings of some of their previously released tracks plus some new stuff.  They also toured a bit…outside of the midwest building up their name.  I have no idea why Jason eventually left the band (school?  work?), but he was replaced on drums with this guy and they changed the name to Jettison.   As far as I know, this was the only release under this name.

They have reunited as the Porcelain Boys since then, but I don’t know if much of anything became of it.  Check out their MySpace page that is run by a close friend of the band.

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