Minor Thread

Day: 666

Shirt: Mercyful Fate - Melissa Tour ‘83

Color: Heather Grey

Brand: Gilden

Source: So today is day #666 the number of the beast. kinda anti-climactic if you ask me. I was going to wear the slayer shirt i wore earlier this week but for obvious reasons i moved it up. Mercyful fate is no pansy substitute at all but it is a reproduction cause like i said on my Instagram earlier today where someone said “Is This Real” My response was simple. I wish at age 10 i was cool enough to be cruising at Mercyful Fate shows! I am almost positive if i was that 10 year old kid i would not be alive today.

So like i said this was going to be a my Slayer shirt but the beast took Jeff away a few days too early. Imagine if Jeff would have died on day #666? that would shave been some spooky shit. and no blog should wield that much power. never.

The Funny thing about the number of the beast. its kinda like 7 being a lucky number and 13 being unlucky. i don’t believe in either. I don’t believe in heaven and hell. but i love metal music. and so the #666 has just been funny to me, like i think it is to most people. like ooohhh!!! your sandwich cost $6.66 your going to choke on it and die. no one ever dies. its shut something neat to take a picture of and show your friends about how you cheated death today. you have a new lease on life. so make it count.

Watch now that i typed all this bullshit i’m going to die somehow tonight and ill be eating my words for all eternity in hell, right?

spooooooky

Day: 665

Shirt: Testament - Practice What You Preach

Color: Black

Brand: no tag

Source: Testament is a funny find for me. I think someone left a tablature book at my house once. I looked at it and just thought fuck this…who the hell plays like this? So then I went and picked up a copy of the cassette and started listening to it. I really got into it surprisingly especially since most of the music I listened to was punk. Maybe Pennywise was the fastest at the time. Well I guess Metallica was…And Slayer. Ok, its clear I don’t know what the fuck I am talking about, cause that was 20 years ago. But for some reason in my mind this was some of the fastest music I had. And it sticks out in my head very vividly as such.

Maybe I bought an album or two after this record but for the most part I kinda fell off. Until a few years ago when the singer somehow beat cancer and put out this record called “the Formation of Damnation.” For some reason this record stuck to me like glue and I listened to it over and over. I mean I know why It stuck to me, cause it was a fuckin’ great record that was recorded really well and sounded amazing. I saw them live on that tour for the first time ever opening up for Megadeath on one of the tours where they played a record in full, but Testament blew them away I think.

Anyways this shirt was up on eBay and this album always gave me a great memory of that tablature book and how you can really discover music anywhere at anytime. So I will continue to wear the shit out of it for the next 20 years and who knows. Maybe some day some kid will stare at it and think why is that old guy rocking an even older Testament shirt and go listen for himself.

Day: 664

Shirt: Zoot Woman - Gradient Logo

Color: Army Green

Brand: no tag

Source: I was jsut thinking today about how much i wanted last weeks New Build Show to be as good as the zoot woman show in SF a few years back. Maybe i had too high of expectations for the show. maybe it was just not the best night / venue / situation but it wasn’t. I felt like the band hadn’t played a show together in a few years.

It sucks cause the energy that is on the record was just not present live, which is a shame cause the record is great, i have had it on repeat for about a year. Maybe my expectations were too high, but i just wanted what the record had put out.

So what does this have to do with Zoot Woman you ask? well because the same situation occurred where i had been listening to Zoot Woman for years and then i finally got to see the show, and it killed it. slam dunk. everything you wanted and more. So i moved back to listening to Zoot Woman today.

Day: 663

Shirt: Monsula - Lyric Shirt

Color: white

Brand: no tag

Source: I bought this off eBay a while a go and i m pretty sure it is a bootleg, or handmade shirt i don’t really care. maybe it isn’t. but if it is, someone cared enough to craft this with lyrics on it and really cared about this band. so its still cool in that respect. i was a big Monsula fan back in the day, great energy, sickest bass lines, very similar to early Rancid. I got to see them play with every band i really loved so i grew to really appreciate them. last time i saw them i think it was in Petaluma opening up for Green Day And NOFX? IM pretty sure that was it. if anyone else can confirm let me know.

Day: 662

Shirt: Slayer - Root Of All Evil

Color: black

Brand: gilden

Source: this was supposed to be my shirt for day #666.

Unorturnaltly the Beast came and took Jeff too early. you will be very missed and always remembered. Rest In Peace good sir.

Photos below of my Day / Show i did with Slayer. it was an epic day. speaking of Day all photos by ©Day19 Jeremy Weiss go follow him on tumblr

Day: 661

Shirt: PEACE - Delicious

Color: White

Brand: Peace

Source: I cant stop listening to this album. i wish it were out already so i could embed it below. The album is everything i love about british pop music. Hooks, the right kind of rip off / borrowed sounds. catchy hooks.

I really think anyone out there that is a fan of Supergrass would love this. Maybe even Yeasayer too. Just sit with it for a few spins. feel it, catch a groove..

Day: 660

Shirt: Dag Nasty - Field Day Tour 1988 (Replica)

Color: Black

Brand: American Apparel 50/50

Source: Ironic that this might be my least fav era of Dag Nasty yet i hold it so coveted. Its like there is no BAD dag, only lesser great. Part of my liking this record less is the recording/mixing of the album, it is very weird and never felt right. this is one record that can stand from a good reissue treatment. especially since this record specifically isn’t available on most internet media sites.

I wish the band would have taken mer more seriously on making this show happen. i would have really enjoyed that…

Day: 659

Shirt: Siouxsie & the Banshees - North American Tour

Color: Black

Brand: EM Merch

Source: a real soft spot for this woman and her music. especially in market and era where even though the music was more sensitive was more dominated by men.

This woman was punk tho, went to Sex Pistols shows, got all moshed up she didn’t give a fuck. but maybe that is what lead to her success. she wasn’t about making a scene it seems as much as she was about being enveloped in it. Its what makes her music raw and truthful a the same time. Honesty goes a long way in songwriting a think and a good guitar riff doesn’t hurt either.

Anyone know what year/Tour this shirt is from, i cant for the life of me remember?

Day: 658

Shirt: Pet Shop Boys - I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing

Color: White

Brand: Hanes Beefy-T

Source: Today i was in a pop mood. Something catchy. Since the new Daft Punk still hasn’t leaked i’m going with the next best thing. PSB. It doesn’t hurt that i heard they are doing a new US tour which i am kind of excited about. It’s A show to look forward to cause you never know what kind of production you will get, but you are guaranteed it will be great.

Im going to put Pet Shop Bioys in the David Bowie , Morrissey Category where i think they can do no wrong. and if i dont like something of thiers i jjust am not ready for it, but someday i will be.

Day: 657

Shirt: Ten Foot Pole - Rev

Color: Mustard Yellow

Brand: American

Source: Taking in this Sunday and just enjoying how the late 90’s graced us with some of the uglier clothing colors. lots of earth tones, flat gross shirt. but i guess it beats Hypercolor or Neon colors. Shit. I just thought of something..neon seems to be coming back, i hope to shit that these earth tones don’t come back next..