When it comes to East Bay punk stuff, Alex Botkin knows his stuff. As the person behind Lavasocks Records, Alex does his part to keep the history and radness of the East Bay sound alive with releases such as “The Thing That Ate Floyd” comp. “Floyd” originally came out on Lookout! Records back in the stone ages of 1988 and has pretty much every band from the Bay Area of the time on it. An incredible record that Alex felt needed a new lease on life. Coming soon from Lavasocks is a partnership with Sell The Heart Records and a rethinking of Rancid’s classic record, “And Out Come The Wolves”. This version has a much better title, “And Out Come The Lawsuits”. Track by track, “…Lawsuits” features 19 bands covering ALL 19 songs on the original record and WOW. It’s an amazing record! So, Alex and I talk about the records, a little music history of the Bay Area, Gilman Street, Lookout Records, Rancid and more! Music of the episode is two songs of of “Floyd” and “…Lawsuits” - Sweet Baby and Cringer off of Floyd, Danger Inc. and Sarchasm off of Lawsuits. This episode is brought to you by Thirty One Ten Printing and Hodad’s. Here are some links!

Lavasocks Records Bandcamp

Lavasocks Records Big Cartel Site

Thirty One Ten Printing Website

Hodad’s Website

LEGAL STUFF

Intro and outro song written and performed by Se Vende.

Sweet Baby, Cringer, Danger Inc. and Sarchasm appear courtesy of Lavasocks Records.

Intro and outro background music - Kevin MacLeod - “Quirky Dog” http://incompetech.com/

I Wanna Party With Sarchasm! I have kinda sorta done that? Via a show Tiltwheel played with them in December of 2019, a Bobcast interview and trivia contest in early 2020 and several songs that I’ve played on the Bobcast over the last several months. Let’s party a little harder with these fine folks in this episode with a presentation in full of the brand new Sarchasm full length record, “Sarchasm” or “LP4”. What a record this is, lemme tell you. Here’s the track listing -

1. Wither (In D) 2. Scorpio Texas Ranger 3. Us Too 4. Belong 5. I Hate It Here 6. Blacklist 7. Green Hornet 8. When’s My Right Time Kent? 9. Spy Vs. Spy 10. Song To Wash Your Hands To 11. Please Hold 12. Supertramp

Buy the new record here - https://sarchasm.bandcamp.com/ here - https://sarchasm.bigcartel.com/ or here - https://asianmanrecords.limitedrun.com/products/676711-sarchasm-s-t-lp-cd

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Dr. Frank of the Mr. T Experience, the catchiest band to “catch” my heart and ears, has been making music since the early 1980’s. That’s almost 40 years. Can I get a “HOLY SHIT”? For someone to do absolutely anything for 40 years is such a huge accomplishment, to have written so many incredible songs and done as much rad stuff in those 40 years as Dr. Frank has? Inconcievable, but there it is. Dr. Frank and I had a talk via Facetime in the summer of 2020 about some stuff. His early years prior to Mr. T Experience, how the MTX reissue campaign came to be, Dr. Frank answered some questions asked by fans I got via a Facebook Lookout! Records group, plus the notorious I Wanna Party With Bob ghost and burrito questions! So much good stuff, how could there POSSIBLY be more?!?!? There is more. Four MTX songs - And I Will Be With You, Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba, I Fell For You and Dumb Little Band. Listen, enjoy and fall back in love with the catchiest band that ever did band stuff. Brought to you by Sticker Junkie and Mouse And Monkey Button Company. Here are some radical links for you!

Sounds Rad Records, your source for all things Dr. Frank and MTX - https://www.soundsradical.com/

Dr. Frank’s Amazon page, buy his books! - https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Portman/e/B001HD389Y/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1

Sticker Junkie, get your very own custom stickers made here - https://stickerjunkie.com/

Mouse And Monkey Button Company, DIY Done Right! - https://mmbuttonco.com/

King Dork (King Dork Series)

By Portman, Frank

Buy on Amazon

Watch The Mr. T Experience perform "More Than Toast" Live from The Rock Room Follow MTX here: https://www.facebook.com/The-Mr-T-Experience-1026092854070299/ ...

Proving that a lot can happen in a short time, here comes the Tiltwheel History series - Chapter Six. Covering the years of 2000 until 2003, the years of the many bass players. We had 5 within that period, plus two versions of the band. Wow. Well, one quit, one dissappeared, one was in Texas Tiltwheel, one (very, very sadly) passed away and the final fellow joined up at the begining of 2003. Highs of those times? A very, very drunken trip to Punk Rock Bowling #3 with bassmaster Lenny in 2001. A crazy and also crazy fun tour with The Thumbs with bassdude Andy in September of 2001. Fun, drinking, recording “Twice The Dose” in 2002 with Jarrod, the Baron Of Bass. Lastly, Sir Paul Of Slowfelt assumes the bass throne in early 2003. And Texas Tiltwheel Kris gets a mention or two. Lows? Our dear friend, brother and bandmate Jarrod passed away on December 8th of 2002. I still think about him every day. 212 Por Vida, homie. Here are some relevant links to your intersets -

The Thumbs Discogs! - https://www.discogs.com/artist/1297185-The-Thumbs

The Thumbs Bandcamp - https://thethumbsbaltimore.bandcamp.com/

Accident Prone Records, this is our dear friend Gary’s label - Bandcamp - https://accidentpronerecords.bandcamp.com/

ADD Records, they released “Twice The Dose” - https://addrecords.bandcamp.com/

Plan 9 Alehouse - Best beer EVER!!! - http://www.plan9alehouse.com/

Red Bronto Records, go buy some rad records there, would you? - http://www.redbrontosaurus.com/

Lookit these kids! L-R - Lee, Megan, Bobby and Mike of The Thumbs. Andy and Bob of Shitwheel. Chris of the steering wheel and scratchy voice.

That Thumbs tour was fuckin’ TIGHT. Check out the flyer for the 24th and Mission BART station show.

An article from Thrasher Magazine about the BART show. Radical!

The cast of “Twice The Dose”

Jarrod at his final Tiltwheel show - Scolari’s Office, early 2002.

JPA1 - Miss you always, dude. 212.

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