Murray Bowles photos of SEE YOU IN HELL & LOTUS FUCKER in Oakland

Murray Bowles photos from the See You In Hell (Czech Republic), Lotus Fucker (DC, Baltimore), Negative Standards, Permanent Ruin, Face The Rail show last Saturday in Oakland, CA.  To see more photos from this show - click here!

GRIMPLE

Grimple...and Ojorojo rhythm section.  This was taken back in 1999 at "Bike For Beers" in San Jose, California by Murray Bowles.

DYING IN YOUR BEAUTY SLEEP

Dying In Your Beauty Sleep playing one of our “Back To Oakland" shows at the Hazmat in 2004.  Photo by Lars Knudson

IN DISGUST

San Jose's IN DISGUST, killing it at the UGZ Speed Trials at Gilman in 2008.  We booked In Disgust numerous times between 2006 and 2010, and before that both Uzi Suicide and Hostile Takeover.  Uzi Suicide was Jose's previous band, who played a bunch of shows we booked at various east bay venues between 2004 and 2006, including the infamous Slaughterhaus in Oakland, site of the 2004 UGZ Speed Trials.  Hostile Takeover was Rich's former band, and they played the 2005 UGZ Speed Trials, which was our first at Gilman.

UGZ Speed Trials were always D.I.Y., always independent (no record labels, no sponsors), and always all ages.  For the record, no one cared less about who the trophies went to than we did, and we're the ones who paid to have them made.

GRIMPLE

For today's Flashback Friday post we have some shots from 1999 of GRIMPLE playing Bike For Beers in San Jose, CA.  All photos by Murray Bowles

HIGH ON FIRE

The first single from the new HIGH ON FIRE album "De Vermis Mysteriis".

UGZ Speed Trials 2005

All photos by Lars Knudsen

From top to bottom: Iron Lung, Brutal Death, and Reagan SS.

924 Gilman | Mural Project

 In 2010 I got together with Bay Area artist Kaytwo from the WCF crew to organize the 924 Gilman Street Mural Project. The original idea was to create a rotating exhibit of pieces by Bay Area street artists, with Kaytwo handling the logistics for us once the ball was rolling. In spite of the puzzled looks I encountered when discussing the 'Mural Project' with many of the club's volunteers, I went ahead and proposed the project at a monthly membership meeting where it was voted in unanimously. In addition to receiving the club's stamp of approval, I asked for and received money to help kick start the process, i.e. pay for the paint. Unfortunately, the project was never fully realized, but Kaytwo did shoot the above videos documenting its beginnings.