| I guess the first inclination of So Far No Good would be the Blatants. In 94, me, Shaun, and Tony had been playing guitar long enough to understand the power chord. So we all started taking turns playing in the Blatants. The Blatants where a lot like Menudo, being that the line up changed every 20 minutes. It was probably the most horrible sounding shit I ever heard, but I don't know if I've had that much fun since. We never actually played a show because, 1) we sucked...bad. I mean it. 2) 13 year old personalities clashed and led to our early demise. We all played around in some shit bands back and forth. Shaun had a band for awhile called Angry at the Microwave (heh, heh I still think it was a shitty play on words for Rage Against the Machine, even though he says it wasn't.) And me and Tony played in a band that never got a name, but wrote some of the songs we still play today. That band broke up, so me and Tony went searching and happened to meet a kid who lived down the street from us that played guitar and had a drummer and a show booked (at what we didn't realize was a Christians boy school.) Anyway, after a horrible practice, and finding out the kid hadn't been playing guitar for more then about a week, we proceeded to stink up Jesuit boys school. We where so pissed,(heh, heh this is great)me and Tony kicked the kid out of the band, kept his drummer, and changed the name from (UGH) 5-Dollar Sucky Sucky to, well we didn't know yet, but definetly not that. Oh yeah, and Shaun had long since ended his fued with the microwave, so he started playing with us. And this time we went ahead and actually took the time to write our own songs instead of playing Screeching Weasel, Misfits, and Op Ivy covers. We practiced about six months and got a show at the Brass Mug with Goon Squad and Urine Luck. Suddenly the name problem was on us again. We thought So Far No Good would be a cool record name and a certain someone in the band thought All Day Sucker would be a good name(I won't mention any names but his initials are Tony Rivera.) So we settled for So Far No Good. The show went well because Goon Squad had a decent following and we flyered the shit out of it. A couple month's later Nick from Urine Luck wanted to do a split 7" with us and thus born "Good Intentions". Recorded Material! 3 songs, not much, but it was pretty cool to be 15, in the studio, with our own D.I.Y record coming out. We pressed 1000 copies and played out like hell. Lotsa shows with Urine Luck and Goon Squad and a few with Blank Face. And then came the Sloppy Seconds show. Not a good night. It was cool of Brass Mug to try to set a show with young local bands with a well known band, but the crowd didn't think so. These where gutter punks. Not the Rancid-listenin'-chillin'-with-bums-plea-for-peace gutter punks. These where no-shirt-no-teeth-chasin and killin' bums gutter punks. I'll give Urine Luck credit, when the crowd started yelling shit like "new school fags" in the middle of their set, they decided to go ahead and end early with a heartfelt rendition of "Basket Case" by none other than Green Day. And so leaving the crowd ready for blood with us up next to take the stage. Actually, the crowd didn't seem to loath us all that much. We where so fucking tense that we played our songs at MACH5. So, they pretty much left us alone and just bobbed their heads. A few of them went ape shit for "Hoboken." But the worst shit happened after we left, so I can only tell you what I heard. As we where leaving, I did see that Sloppy Seconds had brought their own bouncers, which was wierd in the first place for Brass Mug. And this is before Brass Mug got the new equipment and bigger stage, this was the old foot and a half off the ground stage. Anyway, when the pit got outta hand, one bouncer punched what I was told was a very masculine looking young lady in the face. The crowd went fucking insane. Broken bottles, spiked belts, and cops. Bam. No more punk shows at Brass Mug. (But that only lasted about a month.) Right after that Goon Squad and Urine Luck broke up. Mario and John from Urine Luck started and new band with Trent from Blank Face called Risky Business(now known as Not A Day Goes By) and Jason from Goon Squad started the now defunct Nada Sonata. Our drummer left for college, so John from Risky Business doubled with us. Anyways, this is getting pretty long winded. We recorded our cd (Quite Actin' Llike It Hurts)with John, played alot of shows, played the local stage at the 2000 Warped Tour, and now have a new drummer also named John. So if you hear about our show, come out, it's cheap. If you see our cd, buy it, it's cheap. If you see my ex, ask for a B.J., its cheap. Bye for now. |
