millwaukee music Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/millwaukee-music/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:02:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Wanda Chrome and the Leather Pharaohs “Eleven the Hard Way” https://vinylfromthevault.com/wanda-chrome-and-the-leather-pharaohs-eleven-the-hard-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wanda-chrome-and-the-leather-pharaohs-eleven-the-hard-way Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:02:03 +0000 https://vinylfromthevault.com/?p=14782 Wanda Chrome and the Leather Pharaohs "Eleven the Hard Way" 1995. Splunge Records. Hard-driving Milwaukee garage punk in the spirit of the Ramones, MC5, Stooges and Motörhead. We had the incredible opportunity to see Wanda Chrome last night at WMSE's Local/Live event at Anodyne: they rarely play out these days but were legendary back in [...]

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]]> Wanda Chrome and the Leather Pharaohs “Eleven the Hard Way” 1995. Splunge Records. Hard-driving Milwaukee garage punk in the spirit of the Ramones, MC5, Stooges and Motörhead. We had the incredible opportunity to see Wanda Chrome last night at WMSE’s Local/Live event at Anodyne: they rarely play out these days but were legendary back in the 90’s for their killer hard-rocking performances. I think the last time we saw then was at least 10-15 years ago, probably at Circle A. Almost 30 years in, they haven’t lost a beat: Cliff’s guitar riffs still shred, Joel’s beats are crashing, and Wanda (Marie) is still just so. fucking. cool. – she and her bass give the band its dark and grooving soul.

Wanda Chrome and the Leather Pharaohs live at Anodyne

WCLP performed several of the songs from their debut LP Eleven the Hard Way, which they recorded live at Quarters Rock Palace (a bar in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood – it is most definitely NOT a palace) on April 29th, 1995. (About doing a live LP as their debut Cliff quipped last night during the interview portion “If it was good enough for the MC5, it was good enough for us.”) Some of the highlights from both last night and the album include their cover of Flamin’ Groovies “Teenage Head,” “Jet Black” and MC5’s “Kick Out the Jams.” And while they didn’t play it last night, worth checking out on Eleven the Hard Way is their epic medley “Bo Diddley” that clocks in at close to 10 minutes of pure garage punk insanity.

You can watch the Local/Live performance in its entirety here — we in the audience gave WMSE’s Local/Live its first ever crowd-demanded encore:

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]]> 14782 Burning Sons “Reduced to Equality” https://vinylfromthevault.com/burning-sons-reduced-to-equality-2011-mystic-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burning-sons-reduced-to-equality-2011-mystic-3 Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:04:02 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3332 Burning Sons “Reduced to Equality” 2011. Mystic Records. Today June 20th is my friend, primary vinyl dealer (at RushMor Records) and Burning Sons drummer Dan DuChaine’s birthday. Local hardcore punk/thrash metal band Burning Sons opened for the Dead Kennedy’s last week at Turner Hall here in Milwaukee. Reduced to Equality is loud, fast and brutal (if the [...]

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]]> Burning Sons “Reduced to Equality” 2011. Mystic Records. Today June 20th is my friend, primary vinyl dealer (at RushMor Records) and Burning Sons drummer Dan DuChaine’s birthday. Local hardcore punk/thrash metal band Burning Sons opened for the Dead Kennedy’s last week at Turner Hall here in Milwaukee.

Reduced to Equality is loud, fast and brutal (if the cover wasn’t a good enough clue). You can listen to and purchase the record here but the bandcamp site does not include the little gem at the very end of Side B: a voicemail to Dan from some irate guy who just goes off, calling himself a sacrificial lamb because Dan offered him $5 for an Iron Maiden album and rambles on about nuclear weapons and aliens. It is weird. So Happy Birthday Dan! and I hope good triumphs over evil and the aliens don’t get you or whatever.

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