fiddlehead , anxious , praise , one step closer , restraining order (x’s 2) at the cave 11.30.19 /// you know punk hardcore wherever is still so cool to me. i watched and documented this show and saw the youth of connecticut right now. one of the first bands i ever interviewed was cornerstone. they played with deadguy, doc hopper, boy sets fire, and i think hëft & maybe felix frump in totowa at a vfw hall in 1995 (i think it was spring of 95 i think i was still in high school and i remember being given a ride to this show in a convertible but i don’t remember whose car or any one that had come with really) . i think i met @matthewtmolnar at that show. i don’t know if ever transcribed that interview. i know i hadn’t heard the wide awake 7” at that point but the drummer who played with them that day had been in wide awake. i’d loved that cornerstone demo. the woman who had put on the show had made me a mix tape that had jawbreaker and weston and cornerstone and who knows what else on it months earlier. this show reminded me a lot of the uprise set at the redemption 87 show in new providence or basically that whole show. it was the hugh point of an era for a group of friends who were about to grow up go to college start growing apart finding new musical interests making new scenes. there was an intense happiness and pride i saw during the anxious set. their crew or fans all seemed like mostly teenagers to me they seemed like a diverse group of coremen & weirds. do they know or understand these moments do not truly last forever? do they know that they might be chasing that magic for the rest of their lives and it might never be that simple or fun or happy again. but at least for that night they got to capture a truly special moment not everyone can say they get to have with their lives. damn it dude hardcore punk whatever can be so cool. #myfriendsfromTHEPIT #nothingeverstayedstill (at RVP Studios: The Cave) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5spjZhn14311W-M92ncUX-rB9ykkgkG-J7M7k0/?igshid=37jtbe4btgtf