"Rhythm Pigs-LP": Jay Smith, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey
"Choke on This-LP": Kenny Craun, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey
"I'm Not Crazy, I'm an Airplane-LP": Bill Atwell, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey.
"El Paso- CD": Jay Smith, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey
"Baby Falcon Getaway-CD": Shmeckie, Jay Smith, Ed Ivey
The scene (Tampa punk documentary) 1987 Part 1
The Rhythm Pigs were a punk band, originially from El Paso Texas later relocated to San Fransisco. Their first 7" EP is a classic example of early hardcore, welding driving rock and roll with broad melodies and the varied tempos and hooks that were to disappear from the form until reintroduced by Green Day and the like. The first two studio albums showed more "big tent" punk, with varied musical styles ("Break or we'll break your face" would not seem out of place on Licensed to Ill) happily shoehorned into melodic punk songs.
The first Rhythm Pigs record, "An American Activity" 7"
The Rhythm Pigs were one of the most sophisticated and musically diverse hardcore bands, and remained so throught the 1980's as hardcore became more and more musically conservative. That the wistful and melodic power-balads of "El Paso" would not be considered punk by most adherants has as much to do with the shifting definition of punk as it does with the mellowing of the band's sound. "Baby falcon getaway" saw a return to a more raw, fast-paced hard rock sound (the three out-and-out hardcore songs on "El Paso" are collected into a single track titled "The fast three") combined with the more humourous tone seen on the first album. "Baby falcon..." and included a hardcore cover to the Gordon Lightfoot's classic "Sundown", a furiously paced redition of Charles Mingus's "Boogie stop shuffle" recalling the "Peanut's theme" (Vince Guaraldi's Linus and Lucy) from the first album.
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Atmosphere w/ Eyedea & Abilities @ Club 101 El Paso, Tx August 16th. Tickets on sale NOW @ ticketmaster.com. The last show sold out so make sure you get your tickets EARLY. Here is some footage from the last show:
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Hi, Thanks for the add ;)) FLY'S FUCKERS in MySpace.... We're Frenchies (sik), and we play SPEED-PUNK-METAL-HARDCORE (since 1987, lol). We are from ORLEANS (Jeanne d'Arc). Come to see and listen us here: www. myspace. com/fly39sfuckers (FYI: we have no label.....) See You Later. FLY'S FUCKERS ;)))
Hey Ed, remember when "Keebler" had a jazz bass for sale? (early 80's UTEP) I bought it and wished I still had it but hard times in Houston in '95 forced me to sell it. FUCK!
