Newbies and young’ins may have a hard time believing what a pile of shit the Philly music scene truly was in the 1990s. We’re bound to get a pile of mail from any number of ex-Khyber denizens saying, waahhh, what about Mel’s Rockpile (early Matt Pond vehicle) or Dandelion or even The Barnabys (our own in-house pre-teen love rock band), but even to them, we say: Come on. Get serious. This was a sad epoch for all of us. But there was ‚Äî there always is, grasshopper ‚Äî some light. Caterpillar was fantastic (check out their reunion gig here) and so too, in their own gloriously sloppy way, were The Uptown Bones. Scene DNA reveals this was the petri dish that would one day give life to both Latimer and perhaps much more significantly, The Photon Band. Weirdly, someone just put both the ‘Bones albums up on the web, and not for nothing, boy is this ever a trip down memory lane. And yes, buffs of the rockstar-turned-realtor genre, that indeed is Rich from MyPhila.com on vocals. Call Rich, start rocking.
Uptown Bones: The Grifters Stole Everything They Knew From Us
Previously: The Scuzz We Wuz

This entry was posted on Friday, April 21st, 2006 at 10:34 am.