THE
MUMMIES
KEN SALERNO
Circle Jerks (City Gardens Trenton, NJ)
Pocked to the rafters, 800+ people turned
away three prs and about 106
Agnostic Front (Akport Music Hall
Allentown, PA) As rod as it gets without
anyone geting killed! Word
Fugazi (Marquee NYC & Oy Gardens
Trenan N) the toughest thing was
holding back the energy.
Laughing Hyenas (Maxwes Hoboken, NJ
& Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ)
Older crowd lots of sweet and brew
Always a rod show.
Vision (CBGB's. NYC. The Channel Boston
& Cry Gardens, Trenton NJ) Slamming
diving and big pies. Feel like singing?
Jump on stage
Pigface (City Gardens Tronton, NJ)
was wacked from the get go Tribal
Bod Religion (City Gardens, NJ) Bad
Religion was hyped and so were the fons.
Killing Time (Reunion show. Morquee
NYC) An old-fashioned NY samfest
KMFDM (City Gordens. Trenton, NJ)
A strange one music, ights and smoke
Mudhoney (Cy Gardens, NJ) Their
grunge has a way of infecting a crowd.
RICK ROTSAERT
Helmet, Ted (Kennel Club SF) Helmet
De Todoway Sony, nothing personal
Revolting Cocks. Skote Nigs (Stone, SF)
Skate Nigs rubber penis sprayed gallons
of whip cream cum. The smoke bomb
mode me pure and Revoo was intense
Fugazi Nation Of Ulysses (Scottish Rite
Temple Oakland CA) It was a religious
experience and I was in the pit with Lovela
Head Of Dovid. Gumball (Kennel Club, SF)
Gumball is damn good. Efects are Head of
David's bread and butter
Pigface Silverfish (DV8 SF) Silverfish was
all over the place. Pigface boggled my
mind and played forever.
Metalica, Queensryche, Faith No More,
Soundgarden (Die On The Green Oakland
Coliseum) Like setting the time machine to
coliseum events in Rome-people getting
crushed, fights and a temitic dirt clod balle.
Thumbs down to all except Metallico and
Soundgarden, who were fucking awesome
Napalm Death, Godflesh (Om Oakland)
Godlesh is God and Napalm Death
almost caused a riot. Imagine nity kids
stage diving and bouncers running
home to Mommy
Lubricated Goot (Nightbreak, SP) A loud,
Australian noise experience.
Surgery, Hellos Creed (Kennel Club, SF)
Surgery is better live than on record.
Duh. Melvins, Steel Pole Bethtub, L7
(Kennel Club, SF) I love it when L7 has the
spinning lights going.
BRIAN BRANNON
ZZ Top (Cow Palace, SP) Rev. Gibbons and
crew gunned their well-alled recycler and
rocked the rollers with righteous sounds.
The Damned (-Beam SF) After fifteen
years of choos, The Damned still prevail.
TIREHOSE (Sms, SF) Intensity and sincer-
ity is a tough pair to beat, especially when
decil by three of a kind to a full house.
Bad Mutha Goose (New George's, San
Rafael Cara) A soul-to-the-bone night
of funky grooves. Pure heart medicine.
Meat Puppets (Worteld 6F) String desert
psychedelia mot mesmerized and contused
countless Violent Femmes fans
The Mermen (Morty's SF) A power surt mo
dever there was one.
Etta James, Dirty Dozen Brass Bond
(Great Meadow, SF) The Dirty Dozen
stomped and soul mama Eto James
brought down the house. (It was outside).
Fela Kute (UC Berkeley, CA) African radi
Fela Kuto and his huge band tell it like it
is with tribal hythms and jolts of electricity
Booker T & the MGS (Sam's SF) An
organic rapture of insumantal glory
Phantom Surfers, Eight-bell Scratch
(Chameleon SF) Tidal waves smashed the
garage to splinters as the bands played pr
MORGAN WALKER
Sepultura. Secred Reich, Biohazard
Napalm Death (New Titons on the Block
The Ritz NYC) Sepultura is the nordest
fastest ghtest bond in the world
Sick Of It All, Vision Burn Eye For An Eye
(Marquee NYC) The hardcore spirit is alive
and well in NYC
Lollapalooza (Twenty-one cities) The test
four bands were the best
No Means No (Kennel Club SF) NMN
so good it's scary
Gwar Leeway (z NYC) Gwer hod olen
foor Tyrannosaurus Rex. and Leeway fred
meir manager from the stage.
Profanatica Incantation. Goreaphobia
Necrosion (Fortune Cookie, Norwalk CT)
The cutting edge of US death metal, plus
egg rolls from the kitchen.
Public Enemy, Anthrax (US tour)
PE ruled
Megadeth (Toad's Place New Haven, CT)
Great songs and lineup
Sprawl Altered Vision, Chaotic Suffer.
The Insurgents (Nightbrond Norwalk CT)
Anyone who can play a frombone while
tucking it like the guy in Sprowl is okay
Ice-T (San Quentin Prison CA). &
(CBGBs NYC) with Bodycount, Butet
LaVolta and Biltzspeer Ice is the Bob
Dylan of Hip-Hop With these shows, he
proved he's also the Mahatma Ghandi
KRISTIN CALLAHAN
Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails
(Lollapalooza, Waterloo, NJ)
Smashing Pumpkins (CBGB's, NYC)
Warrior Soul (Beacon, NYC)
Pantera (Maque, NYC)
White Zombie (Ritz, NYC)
Tod, Primus (Marquee NYC)
Sick Of It All (Marquee NYC)
Fishbone. Alice In Chains
(Academy, NYC)
Fugazi (Marquee, NYC)
Mindfunk (C968's NYC)
MARK MADEO
Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses
(Scottish Rite Temple, Oakland)
Ice-T & Body Count
(Lollapalooza Mountain View, CA)
Sharkbait (1-Beom, SF)
Crash Worship (Kennel Club, SF)
Naked Raygun (Kennel Club SF)
Consolidated (Club DVB, SF)
Pigface & Silverfish (Club DVB, SF)
Godflesh (Omni Oakland, CA)
Public Enemy (Kaiser, Oakland, CA)
BRYCE KENIGHTS
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Civic Auditorium SF)
Sisters Of Mercy (Warfeld, SF)
Smashing Pumpkins (1-Beam SF)
The Damned (-Beam, SF)
Birdland (I-Beam, SF)
Hemi (Splotcova, SF)
IREHOSE (Sms, SF)
MCM. Mordred (Sim's, SF)
Mummies (Chameleon, SF)
Big Drill Car (Chameleon, SF)
JON STAIN
Fugazi (Detroit) The best
The Mentors (Detroit) There were more chicks
than dudes of this show. Go figure.
Suicidal Tendencies (Toledo, Ohio) Mixe Mur
is refreshingly psychotic every time.
Poison (Detrod) I hassled hundreds of fluf
metal chicks backstage, yelling "I'm with MTV
Do you want to be in the new Poison video?
Guns N' Roses (Toledo Speedway Jom)
G-N'-R are the Sex Pistols of the '90s.
Sonic Youth (Detroit) Way our wall-o-sound
Jello Biafra (Toledo, Ohio) Although he didn't
sing any Dead Kennedys' songs. I learned
something for a change
Clockwise
from left:
Androw
Eldritch,
Sisters of
Mercy, by
Bryce
Kanights.
Slayer, by
Morgan
Walker. The
Mummies.
by Bryce
Kanights.
Big Drill Car
by Scott
Needham.
Brett Gure-
witz, Bad
Religion,
by Ken
Salerno.
Ice-T, by
Morgan
SYNDICA