Monday, May 17, 2004

It's an On Tap DC Music Timeline. I don't have time to scrutinize this timeline, other than I found it because they give a nod to what I thought was just Mr. Brace's record label. Turns out Top Records was also run by Brian McGuire (now of 52 Pickup and quite the promoter hisself) and one W. Van Hall, whom I've never hear of. I soooooooo want recordings of Frontier Theory, B-Time and The Beggars. Wow, I thought thistuff was recorded in the 90's, but not quite, turns out it's the late 80's. I found it even more interesting that 1986 coincides with when I as an 8th grader stopped listening the radio and stopped buying 'records' by anyone that made over 1,000,000 a year. Yet as a 15 year old sheltered, not-even-a-little-punk-at-the-time ingenue with no internet, I never got to hear Dischord, harDCore, or even Top Records which would have rocked my world. I did buy and listen to a ton of Folkways and S.I. source recording and listened to my mom's and grandparent's old records, so I just came to my present musical taste and education backwards of most other people.

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