I wonder what determined whether you became a Revelation band or a Crisis band.
Similar bands. Similar sounds.
Beta Minus Mechanic - '69 Camaro. Amazon.com. Used.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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7 comments:
Wasn't Crisis Porcell's label? Or maybe Cappo's? I seem to remember one of them being involved with it. Probably why it folded. I still have a 7" by Function that wa son Crisis, good stuff....
That might be the case. I have no idea.
I think there was an Autumn record on Crisis.
Porcell did Schism with Alex Brown, Cappo was involved in Rev early on but also originally started Equal Vision. The story I heard was that Crisis was originally supposed to be Walter's label.
Before anything actually happened with it, I remember hearing rumors about Crisis releasing the Quicksand (or was it Moondog? stuff).. or Statue, Mindwar (post-Against the Wall).. but obviously none of that happened. Also, I don't think Walter was too involved in it after Quicksand took off and Rev moved to california.
i remember an early ad for Crisis saying something like "hair too long for hardcore? just quit straight edge? new dischord stuff just too weird for ya?" I think the original intention behind the label was to release stuff from smaller bands that was more post-hardcore sounding and just not an expected Revelation-type release that was more straight up hardcore. This division was always a little puzzling though because right around the same time, Rev released the Quicksand 7". If the Crisis label had been in place, would Quicksand have come out on Crisis instead of Rev? I also think that they initially expected to put a lot less money into the packaging and promotion of Crisis releases.
People would joke that Crisis was Rev's "farm team" where they would put out bands on to see how they did and if they sold well enough, would then make it onto regular Revelation. Farside being the main example, although i guess it happened with Shai Hulud and Will Haven as well. Eventually Crisis just started seeming like the "b-team" of Rev.. bands that Jordan (or someone) was obviously into enough to want to release their music but didn't exactly fit on Rev or at least not enough to want to put the full weight of the Rev "brand" behind... which would kinda suck if you were in one of those bands. "yeah, they like us! well, sort of."
As for what determined if a band was on Crisis or Rev... who knows. i am guessing overall popularity? potential for sales? Although Crisis is no longer, as Rev continues to release worse and worse bands that no one has heard of, the division of what would have been on Crisis and what should just be on Rev is completely blurred. in my mind a lot of the more recent Rev bands (ones i've never heard of or bothered to check out) seem like 2nd rate stuff that would have been on Crisis in days gone past: Gracer, Twilight Transmission, Temper Temper, Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Thirty Two Frames, Since By Man, On The Might of Princes, Christanensen.. who are these bands? even Garrison has a Crisis feel in my mind.
I agree with everything you said. Including the current roster. I guess it's what the kids like.
I like the farm system comparison.
Thanks for putting this stuff up. I saw Beta Minus Mechanic in the late 90s in DC at the "punk prom". They all dressed in tuxes and the singer was in a prom dress.
The singer had a very "copper" sound.
-Joe
I liked a lot of those female fronted acts. Beta Minus Mechanic, Endive, Samuel, Ashes, Copper. I like to think of it as "Velocity Girl Core." Not that it's really a fair generalization.
Velocity Girl Core is totally it.
I heard for years Samuel was going to put out a discography on Art Monk. I don't think it ever happened. They were great though.
-Joe
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