El Zorro Loco: Punk Rock in 90s Edmonton

This site is dedicated to help create a radio show about the punk rock scene in 1990s Edmonton. If you were there as a musician, a promoter, part of the audience or a venue keeper and you've got things you want to talk about then let's talk. Let's talk about the music we made and also what we were listening to. What were we thinking about at that time? 

Background:

I was listening to music the other day when the device went into chaos mode and played songs from an old emo band I was smitten by and later part of in the 90s: Atticus.

Atticus was made up of Trevor Homeniuk who sang, screamed and played guitar and drummer Steve Reid and lead guitarist James Hansen.

I saw one tear jerking show of raw emotion, and noticed they didn't have a bass player. I asked if I could fill that role, bought a bass and joined the band.

It was wild.

The relationships were real, strife was real and the quest was real. We had some tough shows and a couple that absolutely kicked ass. We made people cry.

Then there was the scene. The venues. The guy with the giant chrome dildo and so many punks!

Music!

Let's celebrate all those bands we used to love and still love, Jawbreaker, Black Flag, the Minutemen, J Church, No Means No, SNFU, Coffinbreak... Fuck you! What did you listen to?

How you can help

Share memories, paraphernalia, photos, music, bands you were proud to listen to at the time, bands you were ashamed to listen to at that time.

Previously unpublished and barely published music will feature large hopefully (in short segments).

We may accidentally make some old crusty filth loving impoverished punk disgustingly rich. It is my belief that two and half decades ago, someone likely recorded the anthem of this decades apocalypse.

My idea is that each show will have copious links to recordings. Recordings that were previously only available on overdubbed Lion King tapes that someone liberated from the bargain bin of the video store they worked at.

So we'll need access to recordings (live and studio) of local Edmonton bands and permission to use them, as well as a place to store them online.

We'll need photos of the scene.

We'll need crust covered clothing from the era to help remember the smell of punk rock (and we'll broadcast that smell with SCTV Edmonton's patented Smell O'Vision adapted for radio).

And some merch, like the little bags of icing sugar (cocaine) that were distributed by one of the Wright brothers bands.

And of course we'll need connections to the scene.

Be a host or guest on the show

If you are in for this crazy ride, maybe start going through your collection of music from that time... you know the stuff with the homemade labels, the cassette tapes with the marker.

Who's in?

Leave your name in the comments or email me directly.