#bay view bash

Zero Boys “Vicious Circle” 1982/1987 reissue on Toxic Shock Records. The photo of the band is from this date, September 13th, three years ago when Zero Boys played our neighborhood’s giant street party, Bay View Bash. Zero Boys headlined Rush Mor Record’s stage, playing many of the classic 80′s punk tracks from their debut LP Vicious Circle, originally released on Nimrod Records, and noted that after the last time they played Milwaukee “we probably hung out in your mom’s basement, no, probably your grandma’s basement.”  Zero Boys have always been punk-popular in Wisconsin, likely we have an affinity toward a Midwestern band, though the Midwestern location was a contributing factor to Zero Boys’ short-lived fist iteration (Allmusic notes “Even though the record [Vicious Circle] was to garner critical acclaim and turn the band into one of the legends of early-'80s hardcore, the band was to fold a year later, citing being ‘landlocked’ in Indianapolis in comparison to the larger national scene.)

The Pukes “Murder” b/w “Execution” 2016. Tire Fire Records. This past weekend was our neighborhood party, Bay View Bash. Free music on multiple stages, local vendors and businesses promoting their wares (I worked the booth  for the yoga studio that I teach at for a couple of hours), good cheap beer and food trucks.

Local Milwaukee boys, The Pukes, hit the Rush Mor Records stage at 3:00, after the Mercurys finished their awesome set (and I made enough room on my phone to record their entire performance of “New York”). The band’s name suggests punk, and they kind of are, but in the irreverent and snotty definition of punk, not the hardcore scream-sing thrash guitar meaning. They describe themselves as “boogie woogie rock-n-roll,” also true, who enjoy “dancing around in our underwear, using hairbrushes as microphones as we sing Shagri-La’s tunes.” 

so im really thinkin about setting up a booth at the bay view bash this year. id be selling my photography prints (framed), paintings, drawings & works of other mediums, & hemp bracelets/necklaces as well! glass, shell, wood beads; colored hemp.

how many of you milwaukeans & bay viewers would be even remotely interested to purchase some art/photography/hemp jewelry from me?

here’s a link to my art & photo blog. check it out, let me know what you think & if you’d be an interested customer! :) also thinking about selling on etsy.

so im really thinkin about setting up a booth at the bay view bash this year. id be selling my photography prints (framed), paintings, drawings & works of other mediums, & hemp bracelets/necklaces as well! glass, shell, wood beads; colored hemp.

how many of you milwaukeans & bay viewers would be even remotely interested to purchase some art/photography/hemp jewelry from me?