Soup Is Good Food

 07-23-2008 (2.07 MB)

Duration: 2:12 m - Filetype: mp4

Floor - Figbender

• Ah, the joy of the iPod shuffling through 23K songs... I end up hitting on things I would never have chosen on purpose, which is exactly why I dig it.  When I had the 4gb mini, I hated the idea of shuffling.  See, I've grown as a person.  This morning, I got hit with Iron Maiden when I least expected it, and was transported back to 1983.  That got me thinking about metal, and I've been trying to figure out when it was that I got into it.  I'm pretty sure the first 'metal' stuff I bought was the first Black Sabbath record, then I started building off of that... Judas Priest, Maiden, etc.  My friends were into Motley Crue and stuff like that, but I couldn't get behind it at all.  I'd started buying punk rock records at the same time, but it wasn't for another few years that the punk rock stuff I was liking more and more was the metal-ish stuff: DRI, COC, Cro-Mags, The Accused, Suicidal Tendencies, Agnostic Front.  By that time, I'd given up on metal now that I'd found the marriage of itand punk rock via was what termed the 'Crossover' movement.  The people at the shows at the VFW hall in New Orleans at that time were a mix of dirty punks, metalheads, hippies, art fags, and, of course (and unfortunately), skinheads.  There was this one skinhead-ish kid (suspenders, jack boots, etc) who we dubbed the 'Mad Mosher' because of the way he danced.  He would semi-spastically walk around the outside of the pit flailing his arms in a punchy sort of way (think Ian Curtis).  He often was wearing Metallica or Slayer t-shirts, both bands that I knew nothing of, and since I was done with metal at that point, I had no interest in discovery.  Luckily, one of my friends wasn't so closed-minded as I was, and bought Slayer's 'Reign In Blood' record.  I remember showing up at his house to play music one day and him telling us to come in the house first to listen to something.  He put the record on and we were all like, 'Wha?'  Sure the lyrics were ridiculous, and the music really wasn'tthat different from some of the stuff we'd been listening to, but the execution of it, coming from metal to hardcore punk instead of the other way around, was new to us.  We then got to Anthrax (although we all agreed that Joey Belladonna was seriously a weak link), SOD, and finally Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' record.  I have grown to hate Metallica, but I have to admit that the Puppets record was a turning point for me of sorts as far as my guitar playing (which had its good and bad points).  Since then, there haven't been very many metal records that grabbed me in the same way, but every once in a while, I'll come across something interesting (Neurosis, Zeni Geva, Entombed, Disfear, Kyuss, Boris, The Austerity Program, Torche).  So today, we here at Venus Bars (RIP) bring you 'Figbender' by Floor.  I'm sure you all remember Floor, right?  Well two of these dudes are now in Torche.  Floor used to play pretty regularly at the Hardback.  These dudes loved feedback, and were not adverse to riding a riff into the sunset, unrelenting until dawn, and for that, I loved them.
  
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