I feel like if APOSTLES ON STRIKE had dropped their first EP just a couple of years earlier, or maybe if they had started in Chicago instead of establishing a foothold in Champaign before making the move to the big city, or if they had toured more...hell, maybe if the right reviewer had just hyped one of their cassette releases. They easily mark up with countless better known and more revered bands of the era - gruff, melodic Midwest hardcore punk, and I might like Tolerance better than Always On Strike which came just a year later. For what it's worth, they were playing shows and releasing music again as of the late '10s....
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I bought this "Tolerance" tape at an Apostles On Strike show in a church in Champaign. Looked pretty handmade, red construction-paper label glued on, and sounded muddy and bass-heavy like it was dirty-head dubbed in a hurry off some nth-generation daughter. I had to make myself a listenable tape copy by playing from a Walkman back through some pretty drastic EQ into my tape deck. Was hoping to download digital from ya, save me the trouble of cassette-ripping.
File fixed - though your walkman rip sounds intriguing....
Thanks! Listening to your rip right now and it sounds alright on my standard headphone EQ correction curve. You must've gotten a lucky tape, as DIY as it looks; I got the impression they probably ran off copies on one of those double-deck "high-speed dubbing" boomboxes. Amazes me to this day how few people ever even heard about tape head cleaning and demagnetizing...or this band!
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