is there any way to get "foodstamps..." up on here as an mp3?
halleluiah motherfuckerz!
Hey Nate, Could you email me. I'm putting together a couple pages for a magazine with art by matty and for him. Mostly from him. But I think that picture you included on this guestbook would be great to include.
About that spanish question. Matty told me that he and Aesop picked up some sort of Spanish translation dictionary and used it to write the song lyrics. Well, the dictionary dosn't translate well and the song is a blured mess of spanish. Matty ran it by some fluent spanish speakers and they told him it was all jibberish. I think he liked that.
Hey, This is Will Greene, I used to play in a band called Quadiliacha from Atlanta, Georgia. I ended up
putting Hickey and AYCE in Atlanta a long time ago
i dont rememeber maybe '94> I was in high school at
thetime, and it was some week night at this turd
place we did shows called the Somber Reptile. Anyways,
there was like 5 people there... Matty was running his
filthy stage mouth and Aesop was showing his butthole
alot.. and they got on the topic of money... and how
it was a bit 'tight' at the time. I don't remember if
matty asked for this, or if people just started doing
it i think the latter> but people started just throwing change up on to the stage.. their faces lit
up,.. fuck after some of our shitty tours i wish we
had done this, but after they finished, they picked up
all the change, scraped it together, and had quite a
wad of 'cash' in coin... guess you had to be there..
but it was funny. ill send some pics of matty and Hickey when we played in celina with them.. matty in a grandma dress mid show and aesop playin frisbee mid set with some hayseeds outside of the community barn we were playing in. im sure aesop can remember these better than me,.. my website is www.willinjapan.com i put some things up about matty when i heard about his death, it's in the current news section.. i think i can scrape up a few more stories too, and some more pics from other shows we did with them.
take care
will greene
ps - this is a pic from the Celina show i was talking about.
The Last Stampede
“Disregard my last email. i'm dying. write back.” That was one of the last emails I got from him. Matty was a genius. So full of irony and promise. When I hear some punk rock guitar I will always think of him, screeching like a wild hyena onstage. AntiHero. The DIY Guy. Romantic Punk Rock Boy. He had so much dignity and was such a gentleman. No matter how drunk we got, he would always light my cigarette for me, always made me feel like a princess. I remember a conversation we had about him running into Blagg in a bar in SF back in '92: "Blagg smelled good," he said. Then a few months later he told me how he had managed to pan the music from one speaker to the other (a la the Dwarves) on Hickey's newest single. He was so proud. Once at Raji's in L.A., I introduced him to Jim Miller of Trash Can School/Black Angel's Death Song as "my San Francisco boyfriend". After Jim walked away, Matty turned to me and said, "I liked that", with a big grin across his face.
This is the year 2003, these punk rock casualties are not supposed to occur as if we were back in the thumb in your ass ‘80s. Sure, they had troubles back then, but they didn’t know any better and had no idea who they were going to lose along the way. They learned the hard way. They went through the shit, got stinky and then cleaned themselves up and moved on, or died. I guess history will repeat itself and those of us lucky enough to learn a lesson here or there will endure. Or not.
He did manage to include an AOL smiley face at the end of his email.
I love you Matty.
Doreen called me last night and by the tone of her voice, I knew something was wrong. "Is something wrong?" I asked.
"Matty's gone."
It is so very sweet, this website for him.
It is so embarrassing to be human, to be alive.
I already missed him. I loved how he was so sarcastic yet so very gentle. Bye Matty.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/vicgoria/hickey.gif victoria from damad did this crazy art. hickeys always meant a lot to me. being at mission records the day after matty passed away i knew he meant a lot to everyone there. we drank forties down the street and i almost got stabbed by a gay homeless guy. that day sucked ass.
Hey thanks for this site & I'm sorry to everyone for this bullshit of a loss. I've never been compelled to write anything for shit like this and I can't believe I just found the fuck out. I remember seeing them for the first time at the Chameleon Cafe in Murfreesboro, Tn. on tour w/AYCE ('95 or '96??). They were changin bands without really stopping the songs, they moved all the tables into barriers and were throwing cans like grenades from behind 'em, swingin' from the fuckin' rafters man. We played with them whenever possible and were inspired to keep playin' because of people like them. Everyone should take a lesson from their ideals of not letting people (or yourself) stop you from doing shit. It really felt like a community feeling had come back to punk. Maybe it never left but it sure the fuck was hard to find. Anyway thanks again for this site and thanks to everyone for adding there own thoughts.
dustin
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someone should really post some lyrics to "robots never cry" because it is the best song.ever. xoxo
What about a translation for Boracho? I do speak Spanish but I can't understand the words and have had the damn song stuck in my head for, uh, six or seven years ... God bless the Mission, indeed!
Here's a little side note about the Low Places show. The bar was well off the beaten path. The road it was on wasn't even paved and a lot of the regulars didn't even wear shoes. Somehow there wasn't any fights, but some redneck did slice the tires of Hickey and Les Turdz. And also RIP To DC.
He's right. I've seen the video and, indeed, its not to miss. 😛
man , am i fucked up or what !!! i just got a blank tape from some dude in austin,tx. to record the hickey show from low places...(yep, the one with uncle d.c. singin' sknyrd !!! ) true scumbag mississippi style !!!! but i gave folks the wrong address(cuz im dum ).... heres the right addy if you want this shit...... 6017 1/2 annunciation new orleans la. 70118...... sorry about any misconveniences and shit and yes the vid is FREE ............. just send a s.a.s.e. ............ thanx alot and to all you fuckin scumbags ......... LICK MY BALLS !!!!!!!!! p.s. this video is not to miss.............no shit.
Being head-injured, coma almost 3 weeks, I found out: We have this Teeny-Weeny-Lifetime to prepare for Utopia; Declarations can never fully exclaim how extraordinary and far-superior Heaven is to anything we sinful mortals possess in our Finite Existence (I know. I was Upstairs - TWICE). Who's evil, Mr. Prez? Who's the terrorist now, Mr. Prez? You're going off to fight WWIII when we slaughter babies??? The wanton destruction of the unborn WHICH GOD MADE, but, yet, we destroy by abortion. I can certainly see why Jesus condemns. Smell the coffee, America! Wake-UP!!! Sign the GB, too. God Bless You.
Anybody have the translation for the Spanish part of 'El Faralito'? Me (obviously) no habla. And is the whole 'spoken word' intro of 'Lost Lil Sheep' written down anywhere?
Thanks.
Oh shit. Just found out. I'm sooo fucking sorry. Fuck. Shit.
KrissyRockAss, if yer out there, write me.
<~~~ A pic I've got.
Just a fun side-note I think it was Aesop (but I'm not sure) who had developed some sort of foot fungus on that tour and some members of FUCKFACE were telling him that he had to stop wearing shoes to get rid of it.