Social Spit started practicing for a show that was on the horizon, at Ramona Mainstage, in Fall 2009. That was a good year, the start of six good years for Spit! Before that show even happened, other shows came up, we played Skybox and Radio room (both the same night!).
Back then our Drummer was Jimi Flynn (From Eminence and most importantly from Ministry of Truth)- And he played with us for about 6 months before work obligations interfered and he had to quit. In that time, we did a number of great shows and we were happy to have him. In Spring 2010 we recorded a number of Songs at Mark Hammaerle's (From Kittly Plague and Starcrossed) home studio, and we never really did anything with those recordings- We don't even have copies of all of them, the session files were given to me on DVD and are buried somewhere. But I did have copies of these two songs, the most Complete being "All the Beggars" - So I opened up the session file, mixed it as well as I could and I present it HERE. Along with a great version of "Negative Trend". I added an extra guitar part where one was missing in the middle of "All the Beggars". In Negative Trend, a number of tracks were MISSING, including Cliff's Vocal track! I copied and pasted from a different version of the song using the editing tools in Pro Tools and I made it fit perfect. The only thing missing in that song is one of the room mikes, but it's not needed.
See you on the other side of 2017.
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I told ya there was a story behind these - Which was basically, we recorded a buncha stuff back in 2011-12. SOME of it found it's way onto local Comps, but a buncha songs never got finished. Starting last Summer, Cliff added Vocals, and I put the songs as they were up on Revoibnation. But TODAY, Lenny added his thunderous BASS parts. So now these three songs are finished - Mercenaries, Burn and Social Banner/Revolution (which is a NEW upload, song has never been up anywhere). Happy NY and Enjoy!
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Special Mix of "Negative Trend's MERCENARIES - with THE BORG on Background vocals! You'll see what I mean if ya give it a listen! Merry Xmas 2016!
Story: In 2010, Javier and I record-dead "Burn" and "Mercenaries" at our practice stoodio in Hell Cajon. They sat in Javier's HDD until 2016, and then Cliff came over and added vocals, I had a couple of Mixes and I finally finished them off TODAY! Tech Stuff: Recorded with a Pro Tools DIGI 003 system, exported into my DIGI 001 and we added the vocal tracks in my Living Room! I wanted the background vox in "Mercenaries" to sound like THE BORG. Since Apple and Mystic hijacked our EPs and Albums from the 80's, enjoy this free music!
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Loren DiGiorgi - One FINE Piano Tuner from NewCastle, PA! The Name of his HOMETOWN is one of OUR FAVOURITE BEERS!
Nino Del Pesco - This Bass Player has played with Many of the best San Diego Bands - Is now doing plenty of damage in St Paul Minn!
LEAGUE OF LIARS from Vista, CA - Not let the sobriety of this band fool ya they are just as good as than any Beer-Chuggin Band - Better even!
INJECTIONS - One of San Diego's FIRST and FINEST Original TRUE PUNK BANDS! BREAK DOWN THE PRISON WALLS!
UNCLE JUNKIE - Or as I call them "Ukkle Jukkie" a fine sophisticated METAL Band! Smooth like 12 year old Scotch, and Javier Vega of Social Spit also smashes the skins with this FINE Band - Wait did I call them FINE! That's RIGHT!
JOEY HARRIS and the MENTALS - From San Diego, CA Joey Harris of the BEAT FARMERS is at the helm of this project - which sports Mighty Joe Longa-Hammond Organ/Piano and Jeff Kmak excellent on BASS - A MUST See - Especially when Joey plays the SLIDE GUITAR!
THE TOUCHIES - Actually from CLAIREMONT - This band is a RECENT DEVELOPMENT, formerly members of "Happy Endings", Mishey (Bass) and Stanze (Guitar) Touchie and Lucky (I'll Kick Yer Butt!) Bailey on DRUMS The Touchies have REFINED the OLD SCHOOL PUNK SOUND! HUGS not DRUGS!
THE HAMMERCOCKS!!!!! - From WHACKO, TEX-ASS. Didn't ja know that TEXASS IS THE REASON the PRESIDENTS DED? Gennel Lee Drunk on Geetar, Jack Schitt on Drums, Otto Partz on LEED GUITAR and DETH-ROW TULL on BASS serve up plenty o' GREEN BEER on yer HEAD while Gennel Lee and Jack SCHITT Tell ya ALL aboot it! These guys is NOT POSEURS these guys is PUNKS! Just a lil note aboot that, Jonny Vee met dese guys at the original MP3.con in the "PUNK" Bulletin Bored - And along with Hank Knowles from "Agression" we gave the POSEURS who poked their noses in WHAT FOR! Sent plenty of em Away SCREAMIN!
ERIS SISTERS http://www.myspace.com/erissisters - This Project are my friends Kristi Maddocks who owns this beautiful VOICE and MAN-CALLED CLAY who makes all the rest of the noise! And it is GREAT NOISE. Very Haunting vocals over razor-sharp electronic melodies. A bit like Lisa Gerrard of Dead can Dance - We are enraptured by this stuff - And just cos it is not HARDCORE PUNK don't mean that we don't LOVE it! If ya are a follower of SOCIAL SPIT ya know that we love all PUNK Bands but if there are bands and musicians that play HONEST MUSIC then we DIG THEM as well! These recommendations are all people and bands we've come across from 1980 until 2010!
THE SPEKS (Super Punk excellent Klever studs) - Another SAN DIEGO BAND - Our Paths crossed in Summer 2010 at O'Connell's Bar in San Diego - Down the street from Dick by Dick which used to be The Spirit Klub! - We klicked and Our Fave song is "Future Unwritten" so go CHECK it out! Or we'll beat your measly little butt!!
DARCI MONET - This woman can SING, has the best set of pipes I've ever seen, er, I mean to say, I have HEARD!. A REALLY nice girl, too- Had the honour of meeting her in San Diego for Breakfast with our mutual friend Helen Sventitsy-Rother aka Shaky Tee! Our fave song by Darc is "JEZEBEL" - Heart Sisters, WATCH OUT! And we think she steps on Pat Benatar's face! Also, regarding that Adam guy that Darc likes - Well, we don't REALLY think he's a F**! We was just bein obnoxious!
LAST AND NOT LEAST - We dig RANDY ANDERSON from KITTY HAWK, NC. This guy can PLAY, he's taken the "Santana" Melodic thing and makes it TALK even more. Most of his songs use NO words, just Randy speakin with his Guitar! That's ALL that's needed!
And THAT is all we got time for right now - We're STILL scopin' out ReverbNation - It is as HUGE as a Nation - When we FIND ya we'll RECOMMEND ya!
-jv 9-30-10
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This REVIEW from YELP.COM explains it all:
"I went to this so called Bar to see two bands I have been following - Pharmacy, and Social Spit. A Third band League of Liars also played. I was disappointed that this was not an actual bar - As I do not drink beers or wines, I had wanted to enjoy a nice Martini. During the first band, a very rude man basically RAN up to the band "League of Liars" demanding they TURN DOWN the PA - Which was unnecessary and hurt the sound of that band. Pharmacy played to no incident, they rocked it with new members Jonny Vee and Eric from Gravitorium so I was actually enjoying myself despite no well drinks and I was thinking What a nice little club. I was wrong, Social Spit had a slight delay getting started as their drummer Javier Vega had to bust all the way out from PB where he was playing with "Uncle Junkie"- my friend Jonny Vee was doing double-duty as the guitarist for Pharmacy and Social Spit. Social Spit goes on and it was a FLAWLESS Performance- And so thought ALL of the people in that place, it was a very high-charged show excellent from a band now in their 30th year and this their 30th anniversary "dive bar tour" - EVERYBODY was liking Social Spit when right in front of me, the owner's wife started demanding to the Singer of PHARMACY- That Social Spit GET OFF THE STAGE IMMEDIATELY! This just out of the BLUE! What does Pharmacy have to do with Spit despite sharing a guitar player? Kit the Singer for Pharmacy told the woman to get out of her face!
Right after that, the rude yelling man from earlier approached Social Spit and looked like he needed to make an Announcement so Cliff hands him his PERSONAL Microphone - Instead of anything important like Lights left on in a car, he said "You guys LEAVE right Now! We don't like your KIND here" - RIGHT OUT of a 50's B-Cowboy Movie! And it was ABSOLUTELY not the case - We're talkin a SOLID 100% of everyone there was totally Diggin it. Jonny Vee blew his top at the UTTER RUDENESS of the JERK who was the "owner" - I've NEVER seen such RUDE and UNCALLED for conduct - If this ASS had been a bit more POLITE they might have just gracefully Ended their set. He even called the POLICE on them, and there was nothing the POLICE could DO as SOCIAL SPIT had not done ANYTHING wrong and the police just sat there and were actually quite POLITE. So that says something: This is NOT the first time the owner did something like this? WHO the blazes he thinks he is? He does not deserve the place. Someone with better musical taste needs to take it over since obviously the owner or his wife HAVE none!
Well this braniac knew how to put a LID on a fine time - A GOOD SHOW by a CLASSIC ORIGINAL SAN DIEGO PUNK band would have BROUGHT him More bands and MORE INCOME - But not NOW - As Pharmacy, League of Liars, Social Spit - I guess he would not even like Joey Harris to play there either! And I suggest, like the guy said in the other review - If you want a night out on the weekend with Music - PLEASE do not go to Parkway Bar - Go to Second Wind! Second Wind is "Just around the corner" as he said. Another person who did not like that they were not an actual Bar. In the future, I'll be going to ANY Bar Social Spit plays and I'll NEVER set foot in this cursed place again!"
- Like the man says - THIS VENUE SUCKS ASS.
Take this as an ENTREATY to ALL SAN DIEGO BANDS – This is NO Venue! After the owner INSULTED US I Blew my TOP at him. I asked the gathered people, who were MOSTLY people that came to SEE US - "DO YOU WANT THIS SKAG TO FUCK OFF?" - There was a LOUD "YEA!" from the place as can be heard in the recording I am to put up. EVEN THE OWNER'S FRIENDS, two of them SHOOK MY HAND as I LEFT - They thought the guy went WAY over the line. If I were Hannibal Lecter - I would be enjoying "Free Range RUDE" at THIS Moment.
-Jonny Vee from SOCIAL SPIT
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Calling all Drummers and Bass players - YOU yes YOU we need YOU for the Social Spit 30-YEAR REUNION. Contact Jonny of Cliff on facebook and let's get goin.
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Social Spit / Blog
Six years ago, Social Spit started our 30 year anniversary...
Social Spit started practicing for a show that was on the horizon, at Ramona Mainstage, in Fall 2009. That was a good year, the start of six good years for Spit! Before that show even happened, other shows came up, we played Skybox and Radio room (both the same night!).
Back then our Drummer was Jimi Flynn (From Eminence and most importantly from Ministry of Truth)- And he played with us for about 6 months before work obligations interfered and he had to quit. In that time, we did a number of great shows and we were happy to have him. In Spring 2010 we recorded a number of Songs at Mark Hammaerle's (From Kittly Plague and Starcrossed) home studio, and we never really did anything with those recordings- We don't even have copies of all of them, the session files were given to me on DVD and are buried somewhere. But I did have copies of these two songs, the most Complete being "All the Beggars" - So I opened up the session file, mixed it as well as I could and I present it HERE. Along with a great version of "Negative Trend". I added an extra guitar part where one was missing in the middle of "All the Beggars". In Negative Trend, a number of tracks were MISSING, including Cliff's Vocal track! I copied and pasted from a different version of the song using the editing tools in Pro Tools and I made it fit perfect. The only thing missing in that song is one of the room mikes, but it's not needed.
See you on the other side of 2017.
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New Versions of Mercenaries and Watch it Burn, New Song SOCIAL BANNER!
I told ya there was a story behind these - Which was basically, we recorded a buncha stuff back in 2011-12. SOME of it found it's way onto local Comps, but a buncha songs never got finished. Starting last Summer, Cliff added Vocals, and I put the songs as they were up on Revoibnation. But TODAY, Lenny added his thunderous BASS parts. So now these three songs are finished - Mercenaries, Burn and Social Banner/Revolution (which is a NEW upload, song has never been up anywhere). Happy NY and Enjoy!
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MERCENARIES - with THE BORG!
Special Mix of "Negative Trend's MERCENARIES - with THE BORG on Background vocals! You'll see what I mean if ya give it a listen! Merry Xmas 2016!
Story: In 2010, Javier and I record-dead "Burn" and "Mercenaries" at our practice stoodio in Hell Cajon. They sat in Javier's HDD until 2016, and then Cliff came over and added vocals, I had a couple of Mixes and I finally finished them off TODAY! Tech Stuff: Recorded with a Pro Tools DIGI 003 system, exported into my DIGI 001 and we added the vocal tracks in my Living Room! I wanted the background vox in "Mercenaries" to sound like THE BORG. Since Apple and Mystic hijacked our EPs and Albums from the 80's, enjoy this free music!
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About our ARTIST RECOMMENDATIONS!
Loren DiGiorgi - One FINE Piano Tuner from NewCastle, PA! The Name of his HOMETOWN is one of OUR FAVOURITE BEERS! Nino Del Pesco - This Bass Player has played with Many of the best San Diego Bands - Is now doing plenty of damage in St Paul Minn! LEAGUE OF LIARS from Vista, CA - Not let the sobriety of this band fool ya they are just as good as than any Beer-Chuggin Band - Better even! INJECTIONS - One of San Diego's FIRST and FINEST Original TRUE PUNK BANDS! BREAK DOWN THE PRISON WALLS! UNCLE JUNKIE - Or as I call them "Ukkle Jukkie" a fine sophisticated METAL Band! Smooth like 12 year old Scotch, and Javier Vega of Social Spit also smashes the skins with this FINE Band - Wait did I call them FINE! That's RIGHT! JOEY HARRIS and the MENTALS - From San Diego, CA Joey Harris of the BEAT FARMERS is at the helm of this project - which sports Mighty Joe Longa-Hammond Organ/Piano and Jeff Kmak excellent on BASS - A MUST See - Especially when Joey plays the SLIDE GUITAR! THE TOUCHIES - Actually from CLAIREMONT - This band is a RECENT DEVELOPMENT, formerly members of "Happy Endings", Mishey (Bass) and Stanze (Guitar) Touchie and Lucky (I'll Kick Yer Butt!) Bailey on DRUMS The Touchies have REFINED the OLD SCHOOL PUNK SOUND! HUGS not DRUGS! THE HAMMERCOCKS!!!!! - From WHACKO, TEX-ASS. Didn't ja know that TEXASS IS THE REASON the PRESIDENTS DED? Gennel Lee Drunk on Geetar, Jack Schitt on Drums, Otto Partz on LEED GUITAR and DETH-ROW TULL on BASS serve up plenty o' GREEN BEER on yer HEAD while Gennel Lee and Jack SCHITT Tell ya ALL aboot it! These guys is NOT POSEURS these guys is PUNKS! Just a lil note aboot that, Jonny Vee met dese guys at the original MP3.con in the "PUNK" Bulletin Bored - And along with Hank Knowles from "Agression" we gave the POSEURS who poked their noses in WHAT FOR! Sent plenty of em Away SCREAMIN! ERIS SISTERS http://www.myspace.com/erissisters - This Project are my friends Kristi Maddocks who owns this beautiful VOICE and MAN-CALLED CLAY who makes all the rest of the noise! And it is GREAT NOISE. Very Haunting vocals over razor-sharp electronic melodies. A bit like Lisa Gerrard of Dead can Dance - We are enraptured by this stuff - And just cos it is not HARDCORE PUNK don't mean that we don't LOVE it! If ya are a follower of SOCIAL SPIT ya know that we love all PUNK Bands but if there are bands and musicians that play HONEST MUSIC then we DIG THEM as well! These recommendations are all people and bands we've come across from 1980 until 2010! THE SPEKS (Super Punk excellent Klever studs) - Another SAN DIEGO BAND - Our Paths crossed in Summer 2010 at O'Connell's Bar in San Diego - Down the street from Dick by Dick which used to be The Spirit Klub! - We klicked and Our Fave song is "Future Unwritten" so go CHECK it out! Or we'll beat your measly little butt!! DARCI MONET - This woman can SING, has the best set of pipes I've ever seen, er, I mean to say, I have HEARD!. A REALLY nice girl, too- Had the honour of meeting her in San Diego for Breakfast with our mutual friend Helen Sventitsy-Rother aka Shaky Tee! Our fave song by Darc is "JEZEBEL" - Heart Sisters, WATCH OUT! And we think she steps on Pat Benatar's face! Also, regarding that Adam guy that Darc likes - Well, we don't REALLY think he's a F**! We was just bein obnoxious! LAST AND NOT LEAST - We dig RANDY ANDERSON from KITTY HAWK, NC. This guy can PLAY, he's taken the "Santana" Melodic thing and makes it TALK even more. Most of his songs use NO words, just Randy speakin with his Guitar! That's ALL that's needed! And THAT is all we got time for right now - We're STILL scopin' out ReverbNation - It is as HUGE as a Nation - When we FIND ya we'll RECOMMEND ya! -jv 9-30-10
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ABOUT THE "PUKEWAY" (parkway) Bar!
This REVIEW from YELP.COM explains it all: "I went to this so called Bar to see two bands I have been following - Pharmacy, and Social Spit. A Third band League of Liars also played. I was disappointed that this was not an actual bar - As I do not drink beers or wines, I had wanted to enjoy a nice Martini. During the first band, a very rude man basically RAN up to the band "League of Liars" demanding they TURN DOWN the PA - Which was unnecessary and hurt the sound of that band. Pharmacy played to no incident, they rocked it with new members Jonny Vee and Eric from Gravitorium so I was actually enjoying myself despite no well drinks and I was thinking What a nice little club. I was wrong, Social Spit had a slight delay getting started as their drummer Javier Vega had to bust all the way out from PB where he was playing with "Uncle Junkie"- my friend Jonny Vee was doing double-duty as the guitarist for Pharmacy and Social Spit. Social Spit goes on and it was a FLAWLESS Performance- And so thought ALL of the people in that place, it was a very high-charged show excellent from a band now in their 30th year and this their 30th anniversary "dive bar tour" - EVERYBODY was liking Social Spit when right in front of me, the owner's wife started demanding to the Singer of PHARMACY- That Social Spit GET OFF THE STAGE IMMEDIATELY! This just out of the BLUE! What does Pharmacy have to do with Spit despite sharing a guitar player? Kit the Singer for Pharmacy told the woman to get out of her face! Right after that, the rude yelling man from earlier approached Social Spit and looked like he needed to make an Announcement so Cliff hands him his PERSONAL Microphone - Instead of anything important like Lights left on in a car, he said "You guys LEAVE right Now! We don't like your KIND here" - RIGHT OUT of a 50's B-Cowboy Movie! And it was ABSOLUTELY not the case - We're talkin a SOLID 100% of everyone there was totally Diggin it. Jonny Vee blew his top at the UTTER RUDENESS of the JERK who was the "owner" - I've NEVER seen such RUDE and UNCALLED for conduct - If this ASS had been a bit more POLITE they might have just gracefully Ended their set. He even called the POLICE on them, and there was nothing the POLICE could DO as SOCIAL SPIT had not done ANYTHING wrong and the police just sat there and were actually quite POLITE. So that says something: This is NOT the first time the owner did something like this? WHO the blazes he thinks he is? He does not deserve the place. Someone with better musical taste needs to take it over since obviously the owner or his wife HAVE none! Well this braniac knew how to put a LID on a fine time - A GOOD SHOW by a CLASSIC ORIGINAL SAN DIEGO PUNK band would have BROUGHT him More bands and MORE INCOME - But not NOW - As Pharmacy, League of Liars, Social Spit - I guess he would not even like Joey Harris to play there either! And I suggest, like the guy said in the other review - If you want a night out on the weekend with Music - PLEASE do not go to Parkway Bar - Go to Second Wind! Second Wind is "Just around the corner" as he said. Another person who did not like that they were not an actual Bar. In the future, I'll be going to ANY Bar Social Spit plays and I'll NEVER set foot in this cursed place again!" - Like the man says - THIS VENUE SUCKS ASS. Take this as an ENTREATY to ALL SAN DIEGO BANDS – This is NO Venue! After the owner INSULTED US I Blew my TOP at him. I asked the gathered people, who were MOSTLY people that came to SEE US - "DO YOU WANT THIS SKAG TO FUCK OFF?" - There was a LOUD "YEA!" from the place as can be heard in the recording I am to put up. EVEN THE OWNER'S FRIENDS, two of them SHOOK MY HAND as I LEFT - They thought the guy went WAY over the line. If I were Hannibal Lecter - I would be enjoying "Free Range RUDE" at THIS Moment. -Jonny Vee from SOCIAL SPIT
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It is almost 2010!
Calling all Drummers and Bass players - YOU yes YOU we need YOU for the Social Spit 30-YEAR REUNION. Contact Jonny of Cliff on facebook and let's get goin.
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Yah baby Yah! Many THANX for all the peeps who've responded to this call to war!Jimi - Lenny - Danny - And "The Outlaw Jozie Jozette!"