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Published on April 15th 2003
Fifteen years have passed since The Bouncing Souls formed from a group of high school kids in New Jersey. Much has changed for The Bouncing Souls over these years. Going from squatter punks living out of futon shops and putting out everything D.I.Y. to getting signed to premier punk label: Epitaph records. From Shal Kichi behind the drums to Michael McDermott of Mephiskapheles and Murphy's Law holding the beats down, and from downtimes to some of the happeist and most together times of their lives and as a band, The Bouncing Souls have been through a wild ride. Following on the release of their award-winning 2-disc dvd, The Bouncing Souls returned to Long Island for the first time in a year to play some rock n' roll. Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
i like the bouncing souls and the casualties and the disasters I care. you dont even care, do you my grandpa lives on long island. I'm a little torn over the Casualties. I've seen them a few times and it's like there's a double standard going on. It's not really my style, I think the songs kind of sound the same, and I don't think too much of the lyrics, they pretty much amount to "Let's be punks" and "Let's get drunk." But their between-song banter emphasizes unity between the different "punk/skin/indie" factions. It's a pretty decent message to send out, but it looks like it's lost on the kids who come out to see them, because they're more in the fashion punk vein to the point of intolerance. They sure seem like nice guys, though. They always stick around and check out the other bands and come off as being pretty respectful. Scored souly on listening to the Souls half twice. Caught them live three times now and they own every fucking time. Oh yea, and every show I go to it seems the fuckin casualties are at. I can't escape them. They seem to lack the ability to headline their own show and I wish they would go tour with bands I'm not trying to check out. FUCK THE CASUALTIES! montreal wins more than orlando. fuckin the whole of florida sucks, except gainesville Was it close to sold out? When I was at Sportsplus over winter to see Catch22 it hardly sold any tix, and it just looked really pathetic to have the room half-empty. bouncing souls are so much fun live. Yep, the wall in the middle was up unlike the TBS and Hatebreed shows. Sports Plus is a much better venue when its only a 200-300 kid show. montreal wins more than orlando. fuckin the whole of florida sucks, except gainesville. Orlando wins, we all got on stage at HOB, and we were all in the DVD, Orlando always wins, always. yeah i was at this show, and it was damb good, worthless united were great, lots of energy, roger and disasters played way better than the first time i saw em, and thats saying something. the casualties, not a huge fan but i can respect them and they do what they do well, i will say that they are one of the loudest bands ive ever heard. and the bouncing souls, first time i had finally gotten to see them, and they didnt dissapoint one bit, tons of energy, and just good times. and it was funny how there was like a ton of signs saying no stage diving, and once the souls started playing, there was tons of stage diving. two of the coolest things at a show like this are one, the crowd was pretty diverse, which i personally like more, tons of different age people and different looking people, and two i got kicked in the head at least 10 times, and thats when you know its a punk show. overall i give this show at least an 8. oh and a third thing the venue was like this huge gaming complex with everything you could ever imagine for kids and whatnot which couldve been really annoying, but goddam there were so many hot milfs, i wasnt complaining Great review, love those Souls! For this show, was the pull-away wall thing up, or was it taken down and they used both rooms for the show? 5 stars when the casualties are the on the bill? what happened? ok, great, that could be the only reason.. Oh one more thing, for the guy below - every review of the Souls is "glowing" cos they put on amazingly energetic sets that just make you happy. You can't resist it. You'll see. I was there too, good show, but I'm not too fond of this venue. Give me a dark, dank, hole-in-the-wall cramped club, (rather than a kiddie knights of columbus-type hall setting) and yeah it would have been even better. I see you're not too much of a street punk fan, Casualties bland? Oh well. good review. didnt cannibal corpse open for them to? It's "anchors aweigh" get your sailing terminology down, bitches. |
