Comments on: From the Vaults: Made in South Bay

By: Sugarbunklee

Sugarbunklee — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:47:18 +0000

Luckily, have “You Hippy” on tape from the former ‘Slaughter’ show on WMUH 91.7 Muhlenberg College—5/28/08. Thought it was 7 Seconds. Putting the band’s stuff on a CD for sale would be a hugely, largley, big-gee good idea.

Get ‘Known’, Unknown Society–it’s never too late.

By: Jerry Cesario

Jerry Cesario — Sat, 14 May 2011 00:19:21 +0000

Oh, I guess the EP only had the 6 tracks. Glad “You Hippy” made it on. I had a copy I think that got lost when I moved out of the South Bay. I found some obsure blogs today that mentioned the song from the Staring Down The Barrel compilation. Apparently it was a catchy tune to some people.

By: Jerry Cesario

Jerry Cesario — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:57:31 +0000

Hey, anyway you could send me the songs from Unknown Society? My kids would get a laugh, and I cannot remember all the songs we did….

By: Jerry Cesario

Jerry Cesario — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:55:41 +0000

Wow…I happened upon this site this morning and couldn’t believe it. I was the lead singer for Unknown Society. I grew up in Redondo Beach, but my girlfriend lived in Playa Del Rey. I hung out in El Segundo with Ill Will and Western Waste a bit, and with Instigator down in Redondo (lots of Parties). My gf’s brother started the band and I sang. Just to set it straight, we recorded this around 1984 or 85. We did 4 songs in studio (I think the actual album has more of our songs on it) and we played some parties, then opened up for Social Distortion (Mike Ness was a friend somewhat and got us the gig), The Texas Butthole Surfers and The Big Boys at The Cathay De Grande around that time. After the gf and I split, so did the band and that was it.

By: Coastal Eddie

Coastal Eddie — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:57:08 +0000

This compilation is real and from the early eighties as I know the band Western Waste(the original) out of El Segundo along with Genetic Damage. ILL WILL was quite popular in those days as they had done the compilation “Life is Ugly so why not kill yourself” with ANTI and Mood of Defiance. This was a time when Dez Cadena was fronting Redd Cross and the Nip Drivers were doing backyard shows with WW and GD in Hawthorne and the beach cities. I think Mark G. was the producer and still has the original tapes.

By: Mr. Wesson

Mr. Wesson — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:08:48 +0000

From a scene report in Flipside 44 (November 1984) …

Criminal Records “Made In The South Bay” is getting close to being released, the 10 bands to be on it will be: ILL WILL, GENETIC DAMAGE, UNIT DOWN, MOOD OF DEFIANCE, WESTERN WASTE, LAWNDALE, UNKNOWN SOCIETY, ARTISTIC DECLINE, BEDLAM and the MISANTHROPS

My guess is the 45 is actually from back then, and not the 90s.

By: Hubbs

Hubbs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:57:48 +0000

The guy from whose copy I ripped the tracks found the record in a store years before Staring Down the Barrel was released, so I’m guessing it came out in the late ’90s, around the time Ill Will put out their CD… But who knows? The sticker on the other side said something like “Made in South Bay Demo” so I think it was a low-run sampler with minimum (or non-existent) artwork/packaging. It’s just interesting that it was pressed on vinyl instead of dubbed to cassettes (I think it was before the popularity of CDRs) and that it includes at least one track from the early ’80s. I’m sure someone could dig through old issues of MRR and find some clues to answer the question, but that person is not gonna be me. It’s a good comp, the Genetic Damage, Ill Will, and Western Waste tracks in particular, no matter what era produced it.
As for KFTH – there are some technical difficulties, but it should be back later this week…

By: Punk Business Manager

Punk Business Manager — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:00:31 +0000

Like most collector nerds, I first heard Unknown Society’s “You Hippy” on the great “Staring Down The Barrel” comp in the Summer of 2005. But did this “Made In South Bay” comp REALLY date to the early 80′s?? The suspected “Staring Down The Barrel” compiler, though, is supposed to be a cat hip to spoofs/”fake” old records but maybe it was the late 90′s like you changed it to in the posting. Whatever the year was, I like it for the most part and it’s nice to hear the whole record. The wonderful Artistic Decline song also appeared on their 1987 LP (different version perhaps?). Also, most rubber-stamped records I’ve seen from the late 70′s and early 80′s usually have a plain, dull font and not the “fancy” wavy lettering like this EP was stamped with. Sometimes matrix numbers can provide clues to where/when a record was actually pressed but since 2 or 3 people have copies of this EP who the hell is going to provide those/research it. Dammit, I wish Tim Yo was still alive to help solve mysteries like this!! Someone hold a seyance and ask him if he knows anything, OK.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:59:28 +0000

Glad to see you moved the songs to another server (and don’t allow my comments?), but I’m still worried about where KFTH went. I knew I should have printed it all out.

By: Hubbs

Hubbs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:48:08 +0000

“are u crazy wendel?” Sorry, nope.