{"product_id":"dillinger-four-this-shit-is-geniuser-lp","title":"Dillinger Four \"This Shit Is Geniuser\" LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnxious and Angry #51 is not only a reissue of the band's older collection \"This Shit Is Genius\", but also contains an additional 5 songs! The entire \"More Songs About Girlfriends and Bubblegum\" 7\" AND the song \"Like Sprewells on a Wheelchair\". This is easily some of the band's best stuff. Very stoked to get this into the hands of everyone who appreciates them like I do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Erik himself:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003eHere’s how I remember it…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaddy and I were sitting eating pizza in the Italian Pie Shoppe on Grand Avenue in St.\u003cbr\u003ePaul, probably in the late fall of 1993. We had been playing in bands together and apart\u003cbr\u003esince we met in Evanston Illinois at high school in 1987. One of those bands was\u003cbr\u003eactually Victory Records 2nd release, it wasn’t great, but we were able to tour when we\u003cbr\u003ewere just teenagers, and play some of the legendary venues of the time like the Anthrax\u003cbr\u003eand Gilman Street. Paddy had recently been playing bass a little bit, he’d always been\u003cbr\u003ejust a singer before, and we found ourselves in this pizza place, trying to get our head\u003cbr\u003earound this new punk scene that we found ourselves a part of in the Twin Cities. We\u003cbr\u003eboth felt like hard-core was great at giving a message, but sucked at being any fun. And\u003cbr\u003ethe catchy punk that we loved was fun as hell, but not many of those bands were\u003cbr\u003ebothering to sing about much than love songs and goofy crap at that time, and the few\u003cbr\u003ethat did really took themselves very seriously, and weren’t any fun. At least not the kind\u003cbr\u003eof fun we wanted to be, and especially not at their live shows. We thought we had a real\u003cbr\u003egood chance of combining those two things, into some sort of band that made sense to\u003cbr\u003eus. We had a Lane on board already for drums, and as a three-piece, we chose the\u003cbr\u003ename Dillinger Four. Because we thought that was clever, and we never thought we’d\u003cbr\u003eactually be a four piece, but Billy fucked that whole idea up later on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 1994, It was clear we were in the midst of an all-time amazing punk scene in the\u003cbr\u003eTwin Cities, like nowhere we’d seen before. Every genre of punk band were coming\u003cbr\u003etogether in our town. Crust bands were playing with Pop punk bands, straightedge\u003cbr\u003ebands were playing with drunk punk bands, and everyone was pulling together to open\u003cbr\u003eup Extreme Noise records, which opened in 1994 and is still going today as an all\u003cbr\u003evolunteer run punk rock record store. That scene, that time in Minneapolis, more than\u003cbr\u003eanything is what we’re the product of. The 3 7”s and the split 7” with The Strike that we\u003cbr\u003emade from 1994-1997 I think got a little better with each release? Or maybe we just got\u003cbr\u003ea little closer to what we were trying to do at that original meeting in the pizza shop. We\u003cbr\u003eseemed to write a lot of songs about that scene, or just a vague “scene “. Because\u003cbr\u003efrankly as 20-year-olds, it was kind of our whole world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI say this a lot these days, but we really started our band just before Green Day\u003cbr\u003ereleased Dookie and the whole world of punk turned upside down. And I think there’s a\u003cbr\u003esimple difference between bands who started before that point and after. When you\u003cbr\u003estarted a punk band before that, it was an intentional act of agreeing to make music that\u003cbr\u003ewould probably never have any commercial success. Not in any real major mainstream\u003cbr\u003eway. That just didn’t exist yet. Even the big bands of the time like maybe Bad Religion or\u003cbr\u003eSocial Distortion were playing largish venues, but nothing like what came later. If you\u003cbr\u003estarted a punk or hardcore band after that point, you could never un ring that bell. You\u003cbr\u003eknew that any action you took could eventually put you in a position of superstardom.\u003cbr\u003eAnd I think a lot of bands, though most of which of course never achieved it, couldn’t\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehelp but make their choices with that in mind. I think we may be one of the best\u003cbr\u003eexamples of a band of the last 30 years that has worked against their own interests as\u003cbr\u003eoften as not and still accomplished everything we’ve ever wanted. Four friends who still\u003cbr\u003elove each other all these years, who want to get out there and be together and just be\u003cbr\u003eidiots and comedians and disasters and sometimes poets….And sometimes the\u003cbr\u003egreatest band in the world. 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