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| Leftover Crack / Intro5pect / Mischief Brewlive in Kansas City2006 live show  Review by: WilliamMarinovic See others by this writer Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on July 7th 2006
A pretty popular "punx" band playing at a bar. I'm always wary of shows like this, but I used to listen to Leftover Crack back in 9th grade, so I thought it would be at least fun to relive all of their naivete and silliness.
I love it when bands replace letters with numbers, and even though Intro5pect were less blatantly embarrassing than Mischief Brew, they were still too "whoa"-ey. Easy on the "whoa"s, guys. They sounded like Anti-Flag with a keyboard, so you can guess how little I enjoyed it. They played for too long, too. This didn't matter, though. The barely recognizable crowd, the crappiness of the opening bands -- all to be expected given the headliners' popularity. OH YEAH, ONE BIG THING! World/Inferno Friendship Society were supposed to be one of the openers, but were mysteriously absent. Oh well. After maybe ten minutes of setting up, Leftover Crack blasted into a series of songs I didn't recognize before playing "Atheist Anthem," "Nazi White Trash," and "Crack City Rockers" pretty close together. For some reason, though, I wasn't feeling the energy. Was it the fact that most of the crowd were mall punk kids I'd never seen before, who were dancing like dickweeds? Was it the fact that the Record Bar was smelly and had crappy policies? Was it Stza's idiotic rambling between every song about how "police are fucked up," "war is fucked up," etc.? They had played for a little over a half an hour before I went to the back where one of my friends was cooling off (not from dancing, just from the musty smelliness of the Record Bar). Their playing, while spot-on, was very methodical. The newer songs were not nearly as energetic or heartfelt as their early stuff and half the band seemed strung out or something. Stza stopped singing and went back to Intro5pect's keyboard to play some meandering instrumental that I assume was from their Alternative Tentacles album I never bought. It was boring. All through the show, I couldn't help but just think of how cool the Capitalist Casualties were going to be at the end of July, or xBraniax in August. In the middle of the instrumental (or was it just the build-up?), I left with my friend. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
Erik Petersen > Leftover Crack All the bands on the shirts of the members of mischief brew DID NOT have the talent that Erik Peterson Possesses. And if you don't at least take some joy in his amazing guitar skills, His witty and (heaven forbid this word be used to describe anything to do with the name people like you have givin punk) intelligent lyrics then your obviously not good enough to go see him play. Your judging this band merely on the appearance of them and to be quite honest, people like you.....should shut the fuck up. FUCK PUNX! Whoever wrote this review is a moron. whoever gave this review, is an IDIOT!! More like William MORONovic amirite? Nice shallow review. Very "wanna-be-Buddyhead" but without style Sickboi, quit taking everything I say so literally. Especially when I follow it with "seriously,". What did I dodge? Some cliche' comeback/insult that is used by any elitist prick? wait a minute, a few posts down i thought someone here referred to themselves as the new lester bangs minus the cough syrup habit and the mustache. hahahhaha. hhahahahahahahahahha. holy shit, this place gets better every day. way to totally dodge will's retort sickboi. and thats really awesome your friends dad got to buy a car off of a company that turns punk music into a disposable entity. If you hate Chumbawamba, you hate punk. CLASSIC peace punk -- great lyrics, innovative music. Even when they went "pop", they still did more subversive stuff then Leftover Crack or anyone else will accomplish. If you were in a hardcore band and wore a Chumbawamba t-shirt, that would be cool. Chumbawamba started out, essentially, as one of the many "Crass Bands", and put out a bunch of anarcho-punk records before going into electronic pop. "the point is, you are the worst critic on this site, hands down." It never crossed your mind that people listen to different types of music? i like stuff from limp wrist to denali, propagandhi, mischief brew, to chumbawumba, to name music from all different genres. Would you make fun of me if i played in a hardcore band and was wearing a Chumbawumba t-shirt? YOU DO JUDGE PEOPLE ON WHAT THEY WEAR Funny Hot Topic story. About 10 years ago, my best friend's dad was going over his portfolio, assessing his stock value, and he asks us about Hot Topic, as he has some shares. Granted, 10 years ago Hot Topic wasn't very big, I'd seen on in DC, and I think one in New Jersey. Dude, Sickboi, go back to Hot Topic where you belong- alongside all the overpriced Casualties patches and Nightmare Before Christmas T Shirts you could ever dream of. Will is wrong here. Sorry. No need to analyze this so much. This guy is just trying to seek some attention/controversy cause he knows most people on this site would think this show was awesome. since the birth of the internet, there has been an increasing amount of open negativity between people, because of the fact that you don't have to face the person you are negatively addressing. for every positive comment, you will on average recieve 7 or 8 negative ones. My point here is that eventually this thread will be old, and nobody will give a shit what negative-nancy and bad ass punker joe had to say about some show. although i find this battle between internet elitists very amusing, at the same time it is truely annoying. and we all forget that in 2 or 3 months, LOC will still be doing what every negative person on this board wishes they could: being successfull. they will tour while you continue to bitch, they will record while your 2 month old bands continue to break up, and they will continue to take your money while you line up outside a venue, bitching about how bad the show is going to be. when you write a shitty review about it the next day, they will be travelling to the next venue while you stay where you have been your whole life. Sure, LOC may be upset over the unkind lack of support this thread has spawned, but i doubt anyone's words on here are going to make them stop doing what they do. So in the end, they win. All this thread proves is that they are worth talking about on a heavily trafficed punk internet site. if i were in their shoes, i would be irked, but at the same time, know that i have accomplished enough to piss some kids off. Thier shows speak for themselves. There are plenty of people enjoying the show and having a good time, all because a few punk kids from NYC, at some point years ago, thought it would be cool to write some music together. Im sure if every human being at every LOC show was required to post on this site, this thread would be singing a very different tune. If anyone got this far reading, i am suprised, because regaling you with my opinion is the last thing i would expect anyone on this board to get all the way through. Anyway, the second point of this is, not matter what you have negative to say about them, they still have it better than you, and i am sure dismissing a few angry internet punks will be no challenge for them. World Inferno didn't play because while getting drunk Stza stabbed one of the guys from the band and he had to go to the hospital I still remember when I was writing a bio for a New York psychobilly band for a website, mentioned something remotely negative about the band's reputation for having a revolving line-up, and receieved the bitchiest e-mail ever from the frontman trying to intimidate me into taking it down. Though I like Leftover Crack (and F-Minus) and likely would have disagreed with this review had I been at the show, I think it's sad that bands would obsessively monitor every bad thing said about them on the Internet and try to start some kind of grade school-esque flame war. I saw this show in Omaha...it was actually really good. I REALLY liked this honesty. I expected to see the usual AMAZING SHOW review...this made me happy hahaha, will is too bitter to have fun. hes mad mad mad mad at the world. fucking tool. Eh, it sounds like you were never going to enjoy the show as much as anyone else there, even before the show started. I don't know, I really like Leftover Crack and I'm seeing them at Tompkin's Square Park next month. I have pretty high expectations for that show, so I hope I don't leave it feeling like you did. A fun read. I'm dying from the lack of creativity shown in most reviews! Jesse, that's a bold claim. Also, are you dying or something? I now take this moment to commend Will and pat him on the back for being the Rick Johnson to my Lester Bangs. shitty review by a talentless loser Okay I know Will's not in charge of posting reviews, so I guess I meant to say "Please write" . Please post more reviews, if only for the fact that it's really entertaining (Well as entertaining as anything on a comments section can be) to see people get their panties in a knot because someone posted their opinion on the internet (And to those people, read those last 6 words again..or actually don't, it's funnier to see you get upset for no reason). I wonder if Brian posted this because he knew there would be uproar. He's a sneaky devil, that one. ..but i'm not saying it's bad...it's pretty awesome in a really cheesy way. I don't know how intro5pect sounds now that the guy in charge of the electronics left, but their old record is more like "anti-flag buying reason or fruity loops". Will: Nice job for sticking up for yourself and stating your opinions, without yielding to other people's critcisms. Although I'm probably the 2nd or 3rd biggest poser on this site, I agree that LoC is somewhere in between underground and mainstream. It really does bother me, but then I just think "It's ska-punk" and I put the CD back on the rack. There are plenty of similar groups to LoC that are MUCH better bands, musically and lyrically. Everyone, take $20 and paste this link into your browser. http://www.profaneexistence.com Since the guys from the bands are supposedly reading this thread: I thought LOC wasn't so bad until their singer opened his mouth and tried to sound intelligent. It was all downhill from there. Dear Leftover Crack, Hey William, Jesse: I don't think people have a problem with him not enjoying himself, they have a problem with why he didn't. It just seems like he went to that concert expecting it was Arcade Fire opening for The Beatles or something. Brad Logan needs to stick to F-Minus. "I love it when bands replace letters with numbers, and even though Intro5pect were less blatantly embarrassing than Mischief Brew, they were still too "whoa"-ey. Easy on the "whoa"s, guys. They sounded like Anti-Flag with a keyboard, so you can guess how little I enjoyed it. They played for too long, too." MORE LIKE WILLIAM_MORONIC This review should be taken down. It's not done well and the author clearly did not know how to review a show at all. "I don't remember any of their songs, but their shirts were like this." Great basis for a review right there. Mischief Brew is an extremely talented and fun band to see live. Sorry, but you're an idiot. Dear Brad Logan, Dear Brad Logan, I went to a couple of these shows, and what I saw was kids having fun. Period. Despite what was happening on stage, or how wasted some of the members were, or what the venue was like.... the kids were always going nuts. i hate LOC. they had teh temple in brook close down. fuck them Will just got f'ed in the a. "I think the pressing question here is why the fuck did you go if you're not into that shit?" leftover crap sucks ass. this is not punk! sonic youth.....now thats punk fucking rock.hahahahaha Sometimes you don't enjoy a show, and it's because the band or venue sucks. And sometimes you don't enjoy a show and it's because you've brought a bad attitude to the table. This kind of sounds like the latter. Maybe you should start bringing a few buds to shows or something or stop trying to expect "serious business" types of fun at a Leftover Crack show. Sounds like everyone had fun but you! Leftover Crack is God awful. World Inferno are alright if you're in the mood for weird silly music. But LC sucks just like chocking victim. Gee Bill sorry you didn't like the show,but hey ya can't please everybody. I remember Members of a band called Leftover Crack were strung out. stza did not stab jack from world/inferno BSD stood for "Bullshit Detector," in reference to the Clash song and the Crass Records compilation. If it goes back any further, I wouldn't be surprised. "SOMEONE CALL JOE STRUMMER! The fascists are here!" Big-Willy-Style: mischief brew kicks way too much ass for me to ever respect your opinion again. "'I work at an all-ages venue, and it's people like this that ruin all-ages places for everyone else.' "I work at an all-ages venue, and it's people like this that ruin all-ages places for everyone else." "Hey William- I hate Will. GREAT SHADES OF IRONY! You weren't allowed to bring outside beverages (which you claim were water), leave said venue, hang out outside on the sidewalk, and then re-enter without paying! Yeah, this show sounds like absolute balls. Gross, smelly balls. Yeah that Cleveland show was strange. Did you happen to see that one dude with the bowl haircut and the goat pentagram tattoo with Ezra's name under it in between his shoulder blades? A. That sort of hero worship is inane, and B. How bummed was he when Ezra jetted? Mischief Brew is good stuff, ya'll should chx them out, cool folksy anacrcho rum shit holy shit, you couldnt bring an outside drink into a bar? thats shocking! Kingofsuck - wow....i hope i dont EVER become as cynical and jaded as this asshole I just saw that tour in Omaha, and I gotta say, I agree with you totally about everything, but came to a different conclusion. Hey William- Yeah cool review dickweed, we get in you're a lot more punk than most of us, or anyone at that show. Also sweet name dropping at the end...coughTheArrivalscough. It would be funny and kind of creepy if will and enemy_will turned out to be the same person. 5ive > intro5pect It's cool that people get so worked up over other people that post on the Internet and what they type. Good job, guys. Just because your an increasingly common, yet permantly insignificant pissy little lifestyle anarchist doesn't mean shit. Go ahead and flaunt your age under the pretense of defending it. There's a difference between the skewed insight gleamed from vinyl-only Prank release inserts and what comes from real life expierience. Maybe one day you'll get the irony of "reliving all of... [your] naivete and silliness." And since your so fucking PC, what do you mean by " I knew this place would blow." I don't know what you mean by that, perhaps you could clarify. Do venues perform oral sex on other venues, and if they do are you holding that against them? And while your at it, explain how you can call out Anti-Flag and then turn around and praise Capitalist Casualties when both are equally lyrically incompetant. I don't think I have to quote such C.C classics as "Horrorscope" and "Running for God." For such an anti-capitalist, you sure worry about your cred. That's probably what it's like for a kid with an allowance as big as yours. Have fun in college, doofus. Your haven't droped out of society. Your not even simply mistunderstood. People just don't like you. Anybody who uses the word "gay" to describe something must be less than 14 years old. Grow up kiddiewink. World Inferno was absent because Stza stabbed jack in the apendix with a machette. I saw Leftover Crack opening for Against All Authority about a week and a half ago. I thought about writing a review but was too lazy. To give you an idea of what it would have been like, it would have been unnecessarily long and spent too much time making fun of Leftöver Crack's fans. I saw them the night before in omaha, and it was a great show. I like how now bands are judged by what t shirts they wear. World Inferno was absent because Stza stabbed jack in the apendix with a machette. I'd like to thank the editors for bulliting that list for me. "Leftover Crack blasted into a series of songs I didn't recognize" wait... the El Torreon closed? that explains why the Bane concert last that was going to be there on the 5th was moved to Lawrence.... "but their shirts were like this: The first time I saw leftover crack (touring behind mediocre generica") they were great, they had alot of energy and played a good mix of LOC and Choking victim tunes, the second time I saw them I fought with my girlfiend on the way up and was in a bad mood so I couldnt enjoy the show! The last time I saw them it was one of the worst shows I've ever seen, I think they were on stage for an hour and played 4 songs!! Alright...i like all the bands that played this show. I mean, i think they are all pretty talented. And as much as i love Leftover Crack, i do realize what their purpose is. I mean, they have some moments where, musicially, they are brillant, even if it just shitty poppy music (cause i'm sure none of us listen to Screeching Weasel or the Lillingtons, that music is crap, but so fucking good) (and i hope you all saw the connection there.) And lyrically as well, they have some brillant moments. But they are another band that is about sloganeering, I mean how many songs about killing cops do they have? exactly. But i stil think they are entertaining, and important. And you can learn some stuff from them. come on will, deep down inside, you knew going into this show how this would turn out. I saw Leftover Crack open for the Subhumans and I thought LOC sucked hard. It's a shame Citizen Fish are going to be doing that split LP with LOC, otherwise I would have been fine never owning any of their albums. mischief brew/erik peterson fuckin rocks Due to the singers appendix problems they had to cancel a few of the dates on this tour. If you frequented this site enough you would know. every time i've seen LOC theyve kicked ass |
