zaterdag 8 oktober 2011

Resistance

I was just browsing through Dan's blog old-fast and loud where I discovered the demo tape by Resistance. Dan wrote they were from Zwolle, but that band was called Lá Résistance and were from the Steenwijk area if I am correct.
The Resistance tape he uploaded is a band from Amersfoort and yours truly is responsible for the cover art.
Amersfoort had various waves of hardcore punk. In one of the earlier post I mentioned the Asperitys and the Puke. You could call them the second wave I guess. The third wave of bands was around when we had the 'Kippenhok' squats in Amersfoort. The first squat was right in the city center and it was a big church. We ran a bar in there and organised many gigs. Bands such as BGK, Negazione, Kaaos, Tension, SCA, Funeral Oration, Pandemonium and many many more played a lot of great gigs there.
This was also when we got to know people like Theun and Guus, Mirjam, Lara Emilie and others. When the the church burned down a villa was squatted and that was in the richer area of Amersfoort. This worked out pretty well actually. In that squat we had bands like Heresy, Heibel, Government Issue, BGK, Negazione, WCF and many more played there.
This was the time of the third wave of bands. Resistance was one of them, together with Second Siberia and Loud Warning.
The members of Resistance came from surrounding smaller towns as well, but were part of the core of the Amersfoort punks. If I am correct, most of the Resistance members went on as Loud Warning, who were also on the 'On our way to fool's paradise' compilation lp. I think there's even some live footage on youtube somewhere, because I know people have put the Definite Choice video tapes online.
The gigs at both of the squats were a lot of fun most of the times, though in the first one, there was always a threat of local disco youth trying to pick fights and attacking the squat after all the bars closed at 2 pm. I remember the place being really packed when BGK, Lärm and Negazione played there. That must have been one of the wildest gigs ever at that squat. This is also where AMKA did their one and only gig (AMKA was Paul, Olav, Marcr and myself). We did not really rehearse and I remember the 'song' called 'trillende bril' (vibrating specs), where we were silent and I airdrummed which made my specs vibrate. So much for my career on the drums.
In the second squat we organised a lot of gigs with local bands and bands from nearby. We even got in touch with the metal scene and had some of those bands play there too (Second Hell for example. Some of the gigs there were really great, I particularly remember the Heresy one being a fantastic gig. Government Issue was great too, but they were not the most open people. All in all, good memories of that time.
The file that is in the download was being put together by Dan and he also cleaned the recordings and did a good job on that. I did not change the tags, simply because I have no clue how to do that. Dan even made a cover for a cd-r (he does that for all of his files), so all credits to him!
Next time you run into Gwynn @ the OCCII or some other venue, ask him about (t)his band!
Resistance demo

5 opmerkingen:

Anoniem zei

hey Jos,
zag net het bericht...
lenen ? morgen wel netjes terug brengen dan! lol
en credits aan Jacques WRF/de wijde wereld stichting? hij heeft de teep geript,als hij hem niet op slsk gegooid had had ik ze nooit gehoord waarschijnljk...
hieronder link met de juiste tags!
loud warning ook uit amersfoort dus... nu ook wel benieuwd naar geworden,eens op zoek gaan!
thx voor de credits Joshua ;-0

grr Dan

www.mediafire.com/?d3yhid3brkwag4j

Dan zei

Jos,
de tracklist correspondeerd volgens mij niet met de nummers...heb sommige opnieuw betiteld en geplakt/geknipt,maar nu ontbreekt er volgens mij het nummer resistance...ben de weg kwijt nu
kun jij eens goed luisteren of je dat nummer herkend in een van de nummers...dan upload ik de correcte versie !
gr Dan

Anoniem zei

Jos/Dan,

Bij deze ff 1e korte reactie.
THNX!, 'Course!! (Heb nog wel ergens orginele BAND waarmee dit is vastgelegd, Maar of ie nog functioneert..?! -Verder alleen nog 2 tracks op compilatieCassette uit Zweden)

1)Deze opnames komen uit 1983, cassette was requiem bij laatste show in Grafkerk, midden'84. Band is inderdaad rond begin'84 doorgegaan als Loud Warning, met andere drummer&gitarist.
Resistance bestond van 1982 to begin'84..;Met: Rogier(14jr,Oudste)op gitaar en Martijn op drums..-was zelf 12jr,en Evelien(Eppe,LW)-screamo.
Opgenomen met echte bandrecorder in de garage van ouders Rogier,op een woensdagmiddag, vrij van school.

2)In '84 zijn nl.ook al de opnames van LoudWarning gedaan,die terecht kwamen op de'10 "FoolsParadise", uitgebracht in'85)

Heb nooit alles precies gedocumenteerd,(was ook nooit verzamelaar-),Vanwege "liveFastDieYoung",enzo;1e is tnt aardig gelukt, 2e niet dus,gehgeh.
Compromis=aanvaardbaar. Ga nu luisteren en wellicht later aanvulling/reactie! Gwynn

Dan zei

Gwynn/Jos,
hier ook de LOUD WARNING opnames van "on our way" lp + va BeNeLux fight back comp tape,beide ook wat opgeschoond
grrr Dan

www.mediafire.com/?ukre3kcycx48rvc

Anoniem zei

Hallo, was ff aan het browsen op de naam la resistance en kwam dit tegen. Ben de gitarist van de band op het cassette bandje. Op genomen in de oefenruimte en live. Band komt uit Zwolle en was de 2e generatie punkband. Hardcore/hardrock speedmetal achting. Toen die tijd al ver vooruit als je nu gaat vergelijken. We hadden twee drummers, basist gitaar en twee zangers op het laatst. Vanaf 1980 al begonnen en 10 jaar aan de weg getimmerd. Aan het moois kwam een einde en ieder zijn eigen weg koos. Het beste optreden was in hedon in Zwolle het afscheids optreden. Dank aan jeroen, Steven, Henry, ellemiek, stroeve.

Groet Robert