Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: The Early Days

We decided to go back in time for this week's Trivia Tuesday and gve you facts from long ago.

1. Audio for AFI's set at the record release show for "This Is Berkeley Not West Bay" exists from a soundboard recording made at this show. The soundboard recording remains unreleased. Video footage of AFI's set from this show also exists and circulates among collectors.

2. Audio for "Eddie Picnic's All Wet" was taken from the soundboard recording made at this show. The soundboard recording features the entire performance, but remains unreleased. Video footage of this show also exists.

3. All previous accounts of "Dork" list 6 copies. This is incorrect and the whereabouts of all copies is known at this time with the exception of the single copy that was given to Loose Change at the time that they were received from the pressing plant.

4. Fly In The Ointment features guest vocals by Matt Wedgley on the song "Open Your Eyes", a song originally recorded by Matt's band The Circus Tents. Fly In The Ointment was released on Matt's label Wedge Records.

5. The sleeve for Bombing The Bay was designed by Vinny Wintermeyer, who had also executed the layout for the revised Wingnut version of Anwser That And Stay Fashionable, the design and layout for Very Proud Of Ya, and also the Punk Fiction compilation.

6. AFI played their first live show in Lakeport, CA.

7. AFI's first bassist was Victor Chalker. His real name is Victor Kenyon.

8. Victor's only song he wrote was NyQuil hence why Adam says "Thanks Vic" after they play it on Eddie Picnic's.

9. AFI recorded but never released a song called "Stupidest" and alternate version of Self-Pity during the recording of "Behind the Times"

10. There was an alternate version of Cereal Wars recorded for the "Dork ep"

11. The sleeve for "Eddie Picnic's all wet" was suppose to be an 8 page booklet but it was too time consuming to make it because they would of had to do it buy hand.

12. There was a session for "This is Berkley not West Bay" in which 3 songs that appear on "Answer That" remain unreleased with different lyrics.

13. There are several guitar solos that were not recorded for "Very Proud Of Ya" so the songs in essence are not complete. "No Dave Party" was suppose to have singing in it from the rest of the band except davey hence the title. Also there are several songs that were suppose to be recorded also during this session but because AFI didn't have time in the studio they were never able to finish them. So those songs got released on various compilations instead. So "Very Proud of Ya" didn't turn out how AFI envisioned.

14. Finally there are numerous live, studio, demo outtakes and recordings from a lot of these records and some of the recordings are even older than "Dork" from around 1992.

6 comments:

  1. I knew almost none of that. Sweet. Only knew Vic was the first bassist.What shows are you referring to on the first two points?

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  2. Here's a couple more I know: AFI recorded but never released a song called "stupidest" and alternate version of self-pity during the recording of "Behind the Times" There was an alternate version of Cereal Wars recorded for the "Dork ep"The sleeve for "Eddie Picnic's all wet" was suppose to be an 8 page booklet but it was too time consuming to make it because they would of had to do it buy hand.There was a session for "This is Berkley not West Bay" in which 3 songs that appear on "Answer That" remain unreleased with different lyrics.There are several guitar solos that were not recorded for "Very Proud Of Ya" so the songs in essence are not complete. "No Dave Party" was suppose to have singing in it from the rest of the band except davey hence the title. Also there are several songs that were suppose to be recorded also during this session but because AFI didn't have time in the studio they were never able to finish them. So those songs got released on various compilations instead. So "Very Proud of Ya" didn't turn out how AFI envisioned.Finally there are numerous live,studio,demo outtakes and recordings from a lot of these records and some of the recordings are even older than "Dork" from around 1992.

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  3. You went with my idea :)For the next one, you should do a bunch of personal info on the members. Like their upbringing, history, personal life, etc. This would be interesting because it's something rarely ever discussed as you can't talk about it on the OMB.

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  4. Drew, we will be going with your idea again. :)

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  5. To clarify, we won't be hunting for dirt on the band members and publishing it here. That would be disrespectful and in violation of their personal privacy. We'll just look at interviews and try to find funny/quirky things they mentioned about their childhood or early career.

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  6. I don't like when Trivia Tuesdays are copypastas from KLP Records MySpace.

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