More live recordings from Thorns of Life

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by aubin on Friday, February 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM (EST)

The Unlikely Words blog has posted a link to a few different songs from Thorns of Life recorded during their set at 924 Gilman St. The band is features the influential Jawbreaker and Jets To Brazil frontman on Blake Schwarzenbach on guitar, Aaron Elliott of the Cometbus zine, Crimpshrine and Pinhead Gunpowder on drums and actress / musician Daniela Sea on bass. Sea performed in Berkeley punk rock acts the Gr'ups and Cypher In The Snow and most recently appeared on Showtime series The L Word.

Check out the recordings here.

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Jawbreaker

Jets To Brazil

Crimpshrine

Pinhead Gunpowder

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MilesQToast (February 13, 2009)

I'll have the sea bass

rittleronly (February 13, 2009)

i'll have the soup du jour

BarleyPat (February 13, 2009)

True story.

My friend went out to eat at a resturant. He asked the waitress what the soup of the day was. The confused girl looked up at the specials board and seriously replied "Ummm, soup de jour?"

MattRamone (February 13, 2009)

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we go again.

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

Fuck em.

Dante3000 (rich) (February 13, 2009)

You didn't come to the bay area for their show! My heart...she is the broke.
-Dante

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

Gotta work man, if I get plenty of notice it isn't an issue... plus I was there the week before, they need to coordinate with me better.

Dante3000 (rich) (February 13, 2009)

You were here a week before and you didn't call? You really don't love me!
-Dante

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

I was with the wife, not work, I'll get you next time.

MattRamone (February 13, 2009)

Dante3000 (rich) (February 13, 2009)

Beetle Juice, Candy Man, Biggie Smalls.
-Dante

MattRamone (February 13, 2009)

I'm throwing a party when Dick Cheney finally dies. You wanna come?

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

Can't kill evil Matt.

eazyd2 (February 13, 2009)

daniela is a beautiful name

MilesQToast (February 13, 2009)

you're a beautiful name

eazyd2 (February 13, 2009)

you're boring. yawn.

MilesQToast (February 13, 2009)

I'm steve martin to your john candy. Though you still don't call people faggot cunt half as much as he did.

eazyd2 (February 13, 2009)

im chris brown youre rhianna.

MilesQToast (February 13, 2009)

is that how you roll?

eazyd2 (February 13, 2009)

im just saying i would fuck you and then beat the shit out of you. but in all honesty fuck chris brown i really wanna kill that cunt what a fuckin low piece of shit. rhianna is my girl.

MilesQToast (February 13, 2009)

seriously. how twisted do you have to be to get there?

miniblindbandit (February 13, 2009)

heh heh Sea Bass

miniblindbandit (February 13, 2009)

dammit. that goes under toast.

MilesQToast (February 13, 2009)

how is that going to work? superglue?

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

You don't glue sandwiches.

MilesQToast (February 13, 2009)

clearly you've never been to france.

Dante3000 (rich) (February 13, 2009)

You know what band is really fucking good? I'll give you a hint, they were around in the 90's and signed to a major label and then broke up...But there have been rumors of a reunion lately.
Give up?
Limp Bizkit!
-Dante

eazyd2 (February 13, 2009)

You know who is really fuckin annoying?
Give up?
You.
GO get fucked cunte3000

Dante3000 (rich) (February 13, 2009)

Wait...You didn't even give any hints! You could have been like, "He's totally annoying...He's online right now...He's probably gay...he loves cock".
Man you wasted such an opportunity. Shame!
-Dante

KlashedKi (February 14, 2009)

fuck you that shit made me lawlz

Grantino (February 13, 2009)

punk, shut the fuck up and back the fuck up while we fuck this track up!

Dante3000 (rich) (February 13, 2009)

Here's what I'll say about this band. It's not really my thing BUT, never have I seen a group of such long time, accomplished musicians get together to play what is, essentially, such simple music. It was a bit underwhelming.
-Dante

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

I enjoy it, but I'm a rabid fan of the early 90's bay area sound, which this is. The explanation he gives for the 'I Hate NY' song creeps me the fuck out though, I don't like that babies knees shit, in fact, I've now never heard it. Selective brain function rules.

MilesQToast (February 13, 2009)

you're just rabid period. the crotchety, the foaming, it explains everything.

miniblindbandit (February 13, 2009)

big gulps huh fellas? welp. see ya later.

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

Those your skis?

miniblindbandit (February 13, 2009)

but what if he shot you in the face?

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

We landed on the moon!

kevgren (February 13, 2009)

What was all this "one in a million" talk?!

miniblindbandit (February 13, 2009)

i guess i forgot you never ever make a mistake!

andrewking (February 13, 2009)

That John Denver's full of shit.

andrewking (February 13, 2009)

Also: Harry! Your hands are freezing!

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

I said exactly that when I landed in Denver. My co-workers just looked at me like I was crazy.

idiots.

andrewking (February 13, 2009)

I, too, often drop movie/TV show references in common conversation as it's become such a regular thing within my family/circle of friends. Always funny when I forget who I'm with, drop a line, and people get these looks on their faces like that of a 2-year-old filling his Huggies.

AnarchyPants (February 13, 2009)

Flying somewhere?

andrewking (February 13, 2009)

Austrian? Well, then... G'day mate! Let's get another shrimp on the barby!

Grantino (February 13, 2009)

so fucking good...hopefully they do a full length.

acris (February 13, 2009)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece
so grossed out right now

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

So that's what you look like.

Dante3000 (rich) (February 13, 2009)

Eazy2d looks a lot more mature than I would have thought.
-Dante

nocigar (February 13, 2009)

Nah, can't be him...he can't get laid...not even with that.

andrewking (February 13, 2009)

Hey, now. What did he ever do to you?

Cheesetits (February 13, 2009)

So many things to say, yet nothing.

lostandclowned (February 13, 2009)

hopefully that's a wedding ring on his finger.

rebeccaa (February 13, 2009)

WTF. D;

This is not helping my reaction: "Last night Michaela Aston, of the anti-abortion Christian charity LIFE, said: "We commend these teenagers for their courage in bringing their child into the world."

andrewking (February 13, 2009)

I love how they report that his voice hasn't dropped yet.

At first, I thought, "stranger things have happened," but then I realized what it'll be like for the kid to look back at photos and be like, "this isn't right..."

At least he'll get out of school early for parent-teacher conferences.

14theroad (February 13, 2009)

lol. The world is a fucked up place.

eazyd2 (February 13, 2009)

i dont care about any of your fuckin fancy hangover cures. gatorade and cigarettes FTW.

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

They still import cigarettes to your upside down bitch of a country?

eazyd2 (February 13, 2009)

we make our own from aboriginals hairs wrapped in platypus skin

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

Hilarious.

Cheesetits (February 13, 2009)

It's not going to better than God of War 3, I can tell ya that.

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

That shit isn't out is it?

Cheesetits (February 13, 2009)

No, not for awhile, but there's a new trailer for the game that just came out, looks kickass.

nocigar (February 13, 2009)

The troll hasn't come out from under his bridge yet?

Cos (February 13, 2009)

Its a SHE and SHE likes WOMEN. Just so you know. SHE is a LESBIAN. Totally relevant when talking shit about a band.

badbrain (February 13, 2009)

I'm still not buying that. There's no evidence of it other than him saying so, which is akin to crying wolf on here

Cos (February 13, 2009)

I've made that point before. Claiming something on the internet is evidence of absolutely nothing.

Cos (February 13, 2009)

Isn't as good as the US crushing Mexico in soccer, AGAIN, 2-0.

Nameless (February 13, 2009)

What?! When was this?

Man, Mexico's national team has been sucking eggs lately...

Cos (February 13, 2009)

Wednesday, early evening-ish. Mexico's captain got a red card for putting his cleats into the US goalkeeper. Could've been more ugly, but it was still a pretty hard fought game.

badbrain (February 13, 2009)

Nobody watches soccer

MyStereoHasMono (February 13, 2009)

Give me.....a keg.....of beer

baldsteve (February 13, 2009)

motherfucking Teen Wolf... that's awesome.

the_creeps (February 13, 2009)

sweet

deadelectromix (February 13, 2009)

These songs are starting to grow on me. The full band definitely helps.

Avi (February 13, 2009)

I made this recording for the band to use as a demo, and don't know if it's something they want the world having easy access too.
I'm personally stoked as fuck on the recording, have been listening non-stop, and the excited music fan in me wants as many people to enjoy it as possible.
But out of respect for the band, I didn't just post a link to it on my blog, and am surprised that PunkNews.org would post a link like this. Will this sight start posting links to a blogs that are illegally hosting commercially released albums?
I'm guessing not. But what's the difference? One has a debatable economic affect (someone might not buy a record if they can easily download it for free), while the other deals with an artist's control over their work (deciding what gets shared, preventing potentially unfinished or inferior works from being wide-spread)?

Is it ok to publicly share live recordings without permission, but not to commercially released albums?

Discuss.

BarleyPat (February 13, 2009)

I personally don't see the harm in it. If it's a band I like, a live recording, while interesting, is never a substitue for a studio album. Maybe it's just me, but even if I had live recordings of all the songs, I would still buy an album of the studio recordings (I'm not talking about Thorns of Life here, just in general)

MattRamone (February 14, 2009)

As someone who buys a fuckton of music, I don't feel bad at all about live bootlegs. As far as live music goes, it's a moment in time that if captured non-commercially is something up for grabs. I'll buy their record when it comes out for sure, but they don't play shows near me. So long as I don't boot this and sell it, what's the harm? If they played near me, I'd definitely be buying a ticket and down there front row, but until then, what am I to do?

JxPx (February 15, 2009)

I think if you are in a band playing public gigs you pretty much know eventually you are going to get bootlegs floating around. That fact that there is a bootleg of this band being listened to worldwide before they even have an album out speaks volumes as to the anticipation of their forthcoming record. Most bands as new as this one would give up appendages to have this kind of exposure.

Nene (February 14, 2009)

saw them at gilman a couple weeks back..
totally overrated
also
i fucking missed off with their heads because the lines were so long
fuck

Codu (March 3, 2009)

I'm missing Off With Their Heads tonight.

But i'm seeing Gaslight and Polar Bear Club tomorrow, does that make up for it?