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So I’ve written about this before but I can’t write about D.I. without telling the story of one of the craziest nights I ever had in the 80′s. D.I. and Doggy Style played Kutska’s Hall (in Howard, WI just outside of Green Bay) in ‘87 – Hedge played both sets – and after the show the bands (along with their merch guy who happened to be Wade Waltson aka Joe Schmo from the movie Suburbia and then bassist for US Bombs) followed us back to Appleton to party at my friend’s house. Complete debauchery, sandwich meat on the kitchen ceiling, small fires in the living room, band members hooking up with my friends (Joe Schmo with two of them! though not at once). I hung out with Hedge and a couple other guys in the entourage for most of the evening, trash talking, trading jewelry (LOL) but generally keeping out of trouble. The house was beyond trashed; there had to have been at least 75-100 kids and band members there in total. I can’t remember if I stayed the night or not but I do know that I had the unpleasant task of helping to clean up the next morning – wondering how to get baloney stains off of a ceiling – before my friend’s dad got home.

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Ruthlessly driving with noise and fury, this live record captures the frenetic funk-metal energy of Jane’s Addiction with great tracks like “Pigs in Zen” (which also appears on their major label release Nothing’s Shocking), their band anthem “Jane Says” (also on Nothing’s Shocking), the excellent Rolling Stones’ cover “Sympathy” that shoved the 60′s classic into the post-punk era, and a nod to their Velvet Underground influence with “Rock & Roll.”

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I saw D.I. play live in late ‘87, which I blogged about here, and that too was a defining moment for my 80′s punk experience. D.I. has had a fluid line-up throughout their history and on that 1987 tour, Hedge (also in Doggy Style who opened for D.I.) had just replaced Alfie Agnew (Adolescents) on bass; Alfie took over guitar from departing guitarist Rikk Agnew (Adolescents, Social Distortion, Christian Death). For some reason this copy of Team Goon does not have the Devo cover “Uncontrollable Urge” on which Hedge played bass guitar, so this is either an earlier or later pressing of the EP.  Anyway, after that show in ‘87 and at the party mentioned in that other blog post, I spent a fair bit of the evening hanging out with Hedge: lots of trash talk, I think maybe he wanted to hook up (that certainly didn’t happen) and we ended up trading bracelets. One little wrist-size piece of punk memorabilia.

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“1945″ appears on later comp albums, including “Story of My Life…And Other Stories” (1990), “Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past” (1995) and “Live at the Roxy” (1997). The Rolling Stones’ “Under My Thumb” also appears on “Mainliner” and “Live at the Roxy,” as well as the 1996 release “White Light, White Heat, White Trash.” “Playpen” only appears on “Mainliner” (besides this 12″ of course). Here is a video of them looking ridiculously young playing “1945″ in 1983 and around the same time, “Playpen.” And here they look considerably more mature playing “Under My Thumb” in 2007. Still tons of punk energy – hoping the 8 years since then hasn’t slowed them down much: we’ll see in a couple of days when they play at the Rave.

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