Isla era band biography outline
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La Isla Bonita
1987 single moisten Madonna
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Like many musicians, I started out jamming in neighborhood garages before graduating to bedrooms, living rooms, and hourly studios that required a lot of gear lugging (good practice for shows). Over time I graduated to more luxurious lockouts where we could keep our amps, drums and microphones permanently set up.
When I think back to the various bands and musical configurations I’ve been part of over the years, my mind often skips the memories created at clubs and recording studios in favor of those generated in smoky, beer-soaked rehearsal rooms instead.
Magical spaces that were part clubhouse, temple, crash pad, makeshift venue, and mad scientist’s laboratory. Rooms where we could collectively work out the kinks, pushing ourselves before showing the cold and indifferent world what we created.
I assume that many of the structures I experienced over the years still exist, but the specific energy that we conjured together inside those walls vanished when we eventually handed over the keys—or got evicted—and moved on.
These are a few stream of consciousness memories from those long gone places.
It was only by chance that I got sat next to Keith Brown in a high school English class during sophomore year. We didn’t know each other, but quickly bonded over
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Misc Grab Bag #1
Here are two seven inches by Ex-Ignota. They were from the greater Santa Barbara area, and back when I was a high school student in Santa Barbara during the mid-90s, I caught a bunch of their shows. I honestly don’t remember much from the shows, except that I enjoyed them very much, and often left them looking forward to the next time I would see the band play.
On their website, they note:
The group quickly became recognized for strange and extreme live performances consisting of the members dancing and crashing into one another amidst sounds ranging from pounding chords, to gentle guitars, to Italian zombie movie soundtracks. The band seemed to like nothing better than to challenge each institution they encountered, and audiences were turned on.
When they first got started, they were called IG-88. You may have heard the IG-88 song on the Heartattack #10 compilation. That’s Ex-Ignota!
One seven inch on this post is the Lazarus is Back… record put out by Ebullition in 1995. Ebullition:
The band consisted of kids that were going to the local university; many of whom were art students. Ex-ignota played hardcore that was definitely influenced by a lot of arty musical concepts; abrasive and melodic, with singing and yelling, and lots of variety. They s