I got a call from a buddy last night. He's a record dude, grew up on punk in early '80s Boston before moving to SF and going deep down a free jazz hole way back before it was cool, and now he's spending retirement seeking and slinging records (which is something to aspire to, no doubt). One of his jazz connections gave him a tip about an old(er) head looking to lighten his load and after a quick phone chat my dude was on a plane to Boston. He sent me one photo as a teaser - a frame filled with Crass Records singlesall dead mint and most with the original $3.00 price tags still in tact - but the conversation that followed was him just listing off virtually every essential hardcore and punk record released before '85. Wild. "He played guitar in a punk band but wasn't really into the faster hardcore, so the SSD Kids Will Have Their Say was basically unplayed" Shit like that. He stayed up with the dude drinking coffee and digging through boxes until the wee hours in the morning - passing the physical component of one person's connection to an entire scene back into the world...I'm really glad that shit still happens based on personal relationships instead of just record sharks and the internet, you know? Anyhoo, NIGHT PROWLER is the solo project from one of the VACANT STATE (who has been in a grip of other bands dating back to the late '90s). Crime Wave is the first of four tapes that came out in the early twenty-teens, and it sounds like Boston hardcore with a little tinge of the good upper Midwest shit. There you go...there's the connection. It's tenuous, but it's there.
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