{"id":625,"date":"2010-03-02T02:24:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2010-02-28T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:50:40","slug":"iron-fist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Iron Fist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Live Shows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iron Fist holds a special place in my music collection.\u00a0 They were one of the first punk bands that I saw in Minneapolis.\u00a0 I know two of the four singers, and quite honestly, there is no greater punk rock demo tape, in the history of punk rock demo tapes, than &quot;Crucify Me&quot;.\u00a0 I found my 47th generation copy of that awesome piece of history just the other day, and once again, I can&#8217;t stop listening to it.\u00a0 Amazing is the only way to describe it.\u00a0 <em>(I&#8217;ll be posting that later in the week!!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Among their greatest accomplishments is\u00a0 really bridging the gap between metal and punk in the Twin Cities. \u00a0 For a time, they were Impaler&#8217;s personal warm up band, or at least that&#8217;s the way it seemed.\u00a0 These two tapes are essential, but seek out the studio recordings.\u00a0 Well worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>2 great live shows from 1986 &amp; 1987, from a great Minnesota hardcore punk band.\u00a0 Both of these shows appear to be with the second singer, Jay, that went on to play guitar for the Loudmouths in California.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reocities.com\/SunsetStrip\/Studio\/6504\/IronFist\/fist.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-archives.com\/band.php?id=3540281311\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Get it <a href=\"http:\/\/lockjaw-yappy.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/iron-fist-live-shows.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Shows Iron Fist holds a special place in my music collection.\u00a0 They were one of the first punk bands that I saw in Minneapolis.\u00a0 I know two of the four singers, and quite honestly, there is no greater punk rock demo tape, in the history of punk rock demo tapes, than &quot;Crucify Me&quot;.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[146],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iron-fist","tag-iron-fist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39jV0-a5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}