The Avengers (US: 1977)

maandag 20 februari

Frontline - Gent

info: phil.michiels@pandora.be

klasse! Is er toevallig iemand uit de provincie antwerpen die naar daar rijdt, nog een plekske vrij heeft en moet passeren langs Lier, Herentals of Heist-op-den-Berg? indien ja, stuur mij een mailtje aub: jef__vb@hotmail.com

ebbe die ne site,want kan em ni vinde op
google of msn
(van The Avengers natuurlijk)

Is dit dus die wijven punk band uit San Fransisco? Zo ja dan zal ik er zeker proberen bij te zijn. Kik bandje is dat!

Check My Space voor hun site!

http://www.myspace.com/avengers

Inderdaad het gaat om die oude LA band wiens lp geproduced werd door Steve Jones in 78.
Wijven? Eén madam die zengt en de rest zijn gasten bij mijn weten. Eénmalige reunie - tour en het enige optreden in België!

THE AVENGERS (US) + more tba
Monday February 20th Frontline
Overpoortstraat Gent


The Avengers came together in early 1977, not long after Penelope Houston arrived in San Francisco from her hometown of Seattle, WA. Houston was a new student at San Francisco Art Institute when she met Danny Furious, a recent SFAI graduate who was still a common sight on the campus. Houston was a fan of musicians like Lou Reed and Patti Smith, and she soon discovered that Furious had similar tastes. Furious, who played the drums, was interested in starting a rock band, and he talked an old friend, Greg Ingraham, into coming to San Francisco from Orange County to play guitar. Houston showed up at the fledgling group's rehearsal space one day before the musicians had arrived; after singing along with a stereo through the band's PA system, as Houston put it, "I was so enamored with the power of amplification that I said, 'I'm gonna be your new singer.'"

In June, the Avengers played their first show, opening for the Nuns at San Francisco's pioneering punk venue the Mabuhay Gardens. In August, Jimmy Wisley joined the band as bassist (replacing Jonathan Postal, who went on to form the Readymades), and the Avengers' classic lineup was complete. The band soon became one of the most popular bands on California's budding punk rock scene, though at that time this limited the band to a handful of clubs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1977, L.A.'s premier punk label Dangerhouse Records released a three-song EP from the group, featuring "We Are the One," "Car Crash," and "I Believe in Me." The record received enthusiastic reviews and relatively strong sales, but no larger labels were interested in signing the group. In early 1978, the group scored what seemed like a golden opportunity: opening for the Sex Pistols at San Francisco's Winterland on the final date of the notorious British punk band's first American tour. By all accounts, the Avengers delivered an impressive set (stronger than the Pistols, according to many eyewitnesses), and the group struck up a friendship with Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, who agreed to produce a record for the group. But the Avengers first brush with the larger music business left them somewhat disillusioned; Danny Furious later told a journalist, "It was obvious at Winterland -- everyone knew how to behave, everyone knew how to spit, how to dress -- everyone knew how to pack the place. But it was just sensationalism, a spectacle." Adding to the sting was the breakup of the Sex Pistols days after the Winterland show, which led much of the music industry to regard punk as a spent force, making it all the more difficult for bands like the Avengers to be heard.

In late 1978, Steve Jones did in fact produce a session for the group, which would yield a four-song EP, but 1979 was not destined to be a good year for the Avengers. Tensions had grown between Greg Ingraham and Penelope Houston, and at the end of 1978, Ingraham quit the group. He was soon replaced by Brad Kent, but the band's foundation began to crumble, and in late June, after a pair of sold-out farewell shows, the Avengers called it a day. The Jones-produced EP came out later that summer.

Uuuuup

The Avengers

Dus met voorprogrammas:

The Dead Rats (b)

en

Joey Heartache & The Runaways (b, Heartaches bass player's side-project)

deuren om 20u en de eerste band om 20u30 stipt!

Vandaag! En wie er niet is verliest een hele hoop punkpoints!

wie er niet is heeft wss de laten

wie er niet is, zal zich er wss ook geen enkele fuck in interesseren...

Wie er was zal moeten toegeven dat het genen vetten was.
Way too lame buddies !

Tja dan verschilen de meningen wel duidelijk de meeste van mijn buddys vonden het echter vree goe. Veel beter dan de meeste Engelse 77 bands al ge het mij vraagt... maar ja we kunnen allemaal niet op dezelfde lijn zitten hé!