Pirates Press does us all a favor and unearths a 2001 recording in Poughkeepsie, NY of Frederiksen and company blazing through 10 tracks of their signature hooky, swift and loud street punk.
Recorded immediately following the release of their self-titled album, this is entirely tunes from the that LP, and the band keep the banter to a minimum and the intensity and volume to a maximum.
The show captures the band live at their ninth show; this documents them in their natural state at its finest, and punctuates Frederiksen’s statements that they were first and foremost a live band. At at time when punk music was becoming more tame, more commercial, and more appealing to a larger audience, Live And Loud, in Frederiksen’s words, is a “freight train of punk, Oi!, and street Rock ‘n’ Roll” that deserves to be heard, even if it’s 17 years later.
