Sunday, January 20, 2019

This is Bako Motherfuckers

                                 
                                                                                                                                                                    In the middle of the summer in the armpit of Central California lies a place where while one is driving tries to avoid stopping at , situated between L.A. and FresNO lies Bakersfield . the place may not seem like much and you would expect some Hee Haa country music coming from here but believe it or not the music scene extends beyond Buck Owens and Korn and there is a varied of music here from the mainstream to country , pop , metal , emo punk , grind/power violence , goth , punk , hardcore , straight edge  and just pure shit music =  Passive Resistance (just kinda joking there , Nah not really) . I know the punk and metal scene has been here for a while here but i didn't move here until 1992 so  i'm just gonna go with what i remember from there .                                                         When i moved here the only place i found that played punk music was at a little place on the corner of 20th and M St. called Bam Bams (later called the Zoo and i don't know what other names it went by)  ran by John Bentley , a crazy place and a scary place . The most famous is Jerry's Pizza , then there is the infamous Munoz Gym where the bands would literally play in a boxing ring which was pretty much ran by Ronald who also runs Going Underground Records here and now in L.A. , and Going Underground Record label  also he booked shows at Babylon . There was the Marqee , Montgomery World Plaza , Chaos Coffee , The Killer Klam and a bunch of other places i don't remember .                                                There are many band that didn't really ever make it out of here but damn did they leave  a mark or just disappeared from memory .                                                 
                                        MTV tried to come and record the punk show going on at Jerry's Pizza ( when they were doing that reality bullshit program)  well things didn't go the way they wanted . The band getting ready to play ( The Riot Kids ) told everyone that if MTV came downstairs to film for everyone to sit down and the band was not gonna play until they left . While outside in the alley someone asked the MTV crew if they wanted to see a Bakersfield street fight and a nasty fight did happen while MTV was trying to get away and someone tried to steal their camera and equipment .

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this is when they (The Adicts) finally played , it was booked 3 times but because of visa's or something it got cancelled twice before this .



                                                                                                                                                                    
The Heretics , Family , Grossman , Ghost Nation , Litterbox , Ghetto Cracker , Misbliss , Gelgod , Urban Scum , The Kill , The Dabblers , Four More Feet , The Riot Kids , J.F.U.K. ,The Black Jerks , Death Valley Driver and so many more . Currently the are a lot of bands  some good and some bad , I'm not gonna go on and on about this band and that band , I'm just post some video's and the few recordings i have of local bands .                                                                                                                                                               These are a few stickers i still have of local bands       

This is actually a business card they gave out at shows

 

 

 H.P.R. was internet radio station and a record label ran Greg lord Loony

I don't really keep up with what bands are still around , the few i know of are The Withdrawals , The 08 Orchestra , Aggravated Friction , The Noktornals , Tanked and The Iron Outlaws (who were the last band to ever record in Buck Owens recording studio before they closed it) .In fact there is now a little music documentary about Bakersfield called Bones Of Brundage produced by the same guy who gave us Floradora Nate Berg (musician for Sharon Tate , promoter , and now producer)    Bones Of Brundage trailer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Well here are a few video's of some local bands and of a few some gigs here and i am gonna start with The Iron Outlaws great guys and a great band The Iron Outlaws                                        
Aggravated Friction                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                              
Carcinogenz



                                                                 The Noktornals



Well anyhow here is the few recordings that i have                                                                                    

                        https://mega.nz/#F!4Xox3CSR!vQlSBOf5vh3t90Yy6RGdrQ
2 recordings in this folder
                                                                                                                                                                     
                                         https://mega.nz/#F!dGg3HYKY!YT82E9z4z0fPld_R8b4ksw
                                         Demo and there is another recording that i don't have
                                                                                                                                                                   
                                        https://mega.nz/#F!kP41WSTL!rIl-09yxZyxxUloTwGkiRg
                                        2 albums in this folder                                                                                                                             
                                      https://mega.nz/#F!JSxVHKQQ!trPaeGNPSURm8p9XMrr2tg
                                      this is just their cd  , don't have their ep
                               
                                       https://mega.nz/#F!Ue4FXaQQ!YverO67A0pv6Hw_lMpnC-Q
                                       there is also a live tape out there that i don't have anymore , very raw and and                                        in your face .
                                                                                                                                                                
                                     https://mega.nz/#F!tX5jyYLI!EyWZ2nvbHYVclJvNRWbeug
                                    Contaminators - 2 recordings                                                                                                                                
                                        https://mega.nz/#F!0exRlQLI!EMBccmQkg1pf-yGUwnuIxQ
                                       this is the cover to their tape and not the 1st and 2nd cd's in the folder
                                      
                                       https://mega.nz/#F!gf4BXAiY!hYamNXS_rU7ETANCDBCiIA                                                                                                                                        
                                       
  This is just the tape cover , i don't know of anyone that still has a copy of this so i will leave you 2 live recordings of the band , 1 gig in Bako and the other is at Koo's Cafe                                               
                                              https://mega.nz/#F!VDhBkIxJ!TKREQJwGd6W-s1cgg_4uoA

                                            
                                         The Iron Outlaws                                                                                               https://mega.nz/#F!oPxlWI7T!_Is6GZ6lUq1CZjVSDjMZdQ
                                                                                                                                                                             
                                        And there is a live recording from 2000 in this folder
                                        https://mega.nz/#F!pf4z0YaY!SEBP9Jk_qKML8mxgimQDcQ       
                                             Demo                                                                                                                                         https://mega.nz/#F!VP4TCaqB!tSen3B-35KQ0Xuokrq-CCA
                                       One of Big Rich many bands                                                                                                                                                              https://mega.nz/#F!VTpxGArT!YV_qscTJ7iiWSKJ9rOGosA          
                                           2 recordings by Bako trad skins                                                                                               https://mega.nz/#F!RehnVaAT!2qdwbXJ2Y3DK1sVAS-aoxg                                   

                                                                                                     
https://mega.nz/#F!0SwjzYQJ!_UcPZQJJC6J-DGkXcTt2aw   
                                                                                
                                     Grind Violence ripped from my cd by for some reason the majority of songs didn't transfer so i leave you the songs that did .                                                                                                     https://mega.nz/#F!YHpXDK7D!R7TQQYSFhwnidC-V8Y2TQA                                                                                                                                                     

                               https://mega.nz/#F!Za4zwCiC!MbaX9QWwn1_NbABx_gdoSA                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               More Bakersfield Flyers                                                                                              
 


 


 


 


                               This was taken from out of the window at Jerry's Pizza when L.C.B. played                                                                                                                                                                                                    Friend's of ours that are no longer with us                                                        Mikey Murdock
 

                                      Big Rich and Laura
                                                                                                                                                                              Jimmy Hathoway
 
 Brian Turner
                                                                                                                                                                                  Jasmine Hill                  



Dert

 Spike and Dert The fucker in the middle is still alive Adam Ant

                      Butch " Hey got a quarter"
 



A few pics of Munoz Gym and a big thank you to Ronald of Going Underground records for bringing us so many good bands over the years and his grandfather for letting us have gigs there   
       

           Axiom                                                               Wolfpack
                                                           Death Valley Driver
                                              
 






































           Here's some stuff i still have cd cover and a few tapes but i have no way to convert them over             but whenever i get a chance to finally do so i'll post them to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Grassroots - pre Loser Life                                                                                                                  still have the cd but it is beyond fucked up and scratched so here is the cover              
                                                                                                                                                                       
Hossbruten tape

 

                                          Huka Puka tape comp
 
 

                                         Cradle Of Thorns tape



and finally Melted Gumby . it's a recording of a recording but i still have it
   I know that i have missed a lot of bands and so much other stuff , so if anyone has any recordings or pics , video's etc i should know of or have and would like to share them , contact me


                                                                                                                                                                 

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