Friday,10 February, 2012 - Los Angeles
@The Legion
227 North Ave. 55, Highland Park/Los Angeles, CA 90042
8pm - $6
21+ Full Bar
Benefit for The American Legion Hall and the Veterans of Foreign War
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Savage Republic - Greece 2012
SAVAGE REPUBLIC + THREE WAY PLANE Live in ATHENS, Greece
In the old LA scene, you were lucky if the cops didn’t come and beat everyone up,” guitarist Ethan Port told me once. “We come from that paranoid sensibility where it’s illegal to do art!” A one-time reunion tour in early 2006 became the second moment for Savage Republic, when Neurot released a new LP called 1938 in 2007. “It’s 1938 all over again—waiting for the fall!” sings Thom Fuhrmann on a last song drowning in dread. These are still savage times, Port said: “The punk scene was kind of like laughing while the H-bomb hits you in the face, like laughing in the face of danger—it was very into irony and sarcasm and double entendres, and after 9/11 I couldn’t get into that. It was like a slap in the face. I think about Weimar Germany before Hitler came in. There’s definitely a feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop.”
LONG LIVE DEATH WITH SAVAGE REPUBLIC QUE SERA | 1923 E 7TH ST | LONG BEACH 90813 | FRI 9PM | $10 | 21+ | THEQUESERA.COM
Savage Republic - 2007 (L to R) Alan Waddington, Greg Grunke, Thom Fuhrmann, Val Haller, Ethan Port Credit: Ramona clarke-Fuhrmann (click for hi-res photo)