A little bit of self-promotion never hurt...
SLUG -- The Summer of 2008 was difficult on the hardcore community in Utah. There wasn’t much left of a scene that was once packed with fans, musicians, and genuine veterans of the movement. Trevor Hale (Cherem, Tamerlane), Dan Fletcher (Skeiff d’ Bargg, City to City, First Blood), and Sias Parsons all agreed on that point. The three spent many similar summers attempting to maintain a fire in the scene that they helped solidify in the late 90s by booking shows at consistent venues.
These veterans of the Salt Lake hardcore community, are the same guys who uploaded the first post to grudgecityactivities.com in July 2008. According to Hale the purpose of the site is to document “anything that has to do with Salt Lake City hardcore, past and present.”
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“I thought Kurt Cobain was God in elementary school and when I heard him talk about Black Flag’s influence, I snatched up Damaged without a second thought. That record set it off.” I guess I do have a a doppelganger. In Utero or In My Head? Doesn't matter.
i was gonna say that you stole my story dan. I was in 6th grade and nevermind came out and I got way into nirvana and then read a kurt cobain book the next year and he said black flag and agnostic front and slapshot and old hardcore was his influences. I went down to Raunch that day and bought the first four years and from there read a liner note treasure map to here. Coincidently I also made it to my first hardcore show by way of a guy who we met at raunch and who had a whole bunch of nirvana bootlegs. we went to his house and then he took us down to Playskool to see riverbed jed, iceburn, and far.
Our friendship makes more and more sense with time Casey. GCAcast when I'm in town for X-Mas?
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