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[Scott Von Rocket]

Hey. We're from Portland. We've got two 7-inches and a CD out (we're also on the Funhouse Comp Thing II). Ex-members of Axes Of Evil, The Wristrockets, and Monkee Torture. I've been told we kind of sound like early 80's beach punk mixed with the Damned and some Rip Off Records style.

http://www.myspace.com/anxieties
http://www.theanxieties.com

[ChrisCrusher]

They're very good.  I like them.  As people and as a band.

[Scott Von Rocket]

Thanks Crusher! How was your Portland show? Still bummed that I had to miss it.

[ChrisCrusher]

Thanks Crusher! How was your Portland show? Still bummed that I had to miss it.

It was alright.  It was a wednesday night.  There were lots of weirdos there, a couple fights, the bands were good, the crowd was less than awesome.  Good overall.  I tackled someone.  that was cool.  Mike Welch stood by and laughed while our roadie was yelling at me to chill out because we were on tour and I can't be hurt while on tour.  Awesome!

[Scott Von Rocket]

Mike Welch stood by and laughed while our roadie was yelling at me to chill out because we were on tour and I can't be hurt while on tour.  Awesome!

Ha ha! You need a handler.

[Timmy Vaughn]

hey! hey!i was totally playing Black hole 7" the other day!  Thank you guys for being such good folks. i'm totally stoked that we've gotten to play shows together and hang out over the last half of the bush administration.ha. cheers to you and hopefully we'll be hanging sometime soon this year. rock n roll...
tim
l-a-b-r-a-t-s!
ps who wrote "saturday Night" on the LR 7"?

[Scott Von Rocket]

hey! hey!i was totally playing Black hole 7" the other day!  Thank you guys for being such good folks. i'm totally stoked that we've gotten to play shows together and hang out over the last half of the bush administration.ha. cheers to you and hopefully we'll be hanging sometime soon this year. rock n roll...
tim
l-a-b-r-a-t-s!
ps who wrote "saturday Night" on the LR 7"?

Nice to see you here Tim. I was actually going to send you a message about this place but then I saw that you were already here in the "Introductions" thread.

Matt wrote "Friday Night" on the 7-inch (which still has yet to actually be released, unfortunately), it was the first song he wrote for us, and the first one that I didn't sing. Since then, he's written a few more and I really like his newest stuff a lot. The closer off the album we plan on recording this year is one of his called "Ghost Notes" and I end up with it stuck in my head all the damn time. He brings more of the "rock'n'roll" vibe to counter-balance my "old-school" tendencies.

[GeorgeLiquor]

I've got one of those 7"'s..I also saw you guy in..corvalis? shit It was a long time ago in some po-dunk south washington town.

[Ryan Strong]

I saw The Wristrockets play in Bremerton in like 1997 (give or take a year). It was one of the first shows I ever volunteered at, and I had a great time. I had the sticker on the front of my very first electric guitar.

[Scott Von Rocket]

I saw The Wristrockets play in Bremerton in like 1997 (give or take a year). It was one of the first shows I ever volunteered at, and I had a great time. I had the sticker on the front of my very first electric guitar.

Whoa. I think I remember that show, it was with a rockabilly band (the Whitewalls maybe?) in some kind of school gym-type building right?

[Ryan Strong]

Whoa. I think I remember that show, it was with a rockabilly band (the Whitewalls maybe?) in some kind of school gym-type building right?

Wow, haha. That's pretty impressive. Even I can barely remember The Whitewalls.

That crappy gym was about the only venue Bremerton had in those days (I'm glad to say things have improved dramatically).

Anyway, thanks for remembering. You guys were awesome. I've caught The Anxieties a few times (once memorably with Dateless and The Unlovables) and I love your full-length. Hope to see you next time you come through Seattle.

[Scott Von Rocket]

Working on two full-length records right now. Under Surveillance is the newest stuff we've written, and Return To The Nowhere Zone is revisiting songs from our Eugene days that either never got released or are out of print.

[Scott Von Rocket]

We're on facebook and bandcamp now. You can get "Gotta Get Away" as a free download from the bandcamp page and we've dropped the price for download of "The Next Mutation" album to $6.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/pages/The-Anxieties/81764196336?ref=ts

http://theanxieties.bandcamp.com

[absentjoel]

Hell yeah! Anxieties rule!

[Ceej]

Wow, haha. That's pretty impressive. Even I can barely remember The Whitewalls.

That crappy gym was about the only venue Bremerton had in those days (I'm glad to say things have improved dramatically).

Anyway, thanks for remembering. You guys were awesome. I've caught The Anxieties a few times (once memorably with Dateless and The Unlovables) and I love your full-length. Hope to see you next time you come through Seattle.

The Sheridan Community Center....that place sucked. Just saw this after 1 year.

[milesmouthguard]

I believe I saw the Wristrockets play once in Roseburg, maybe in 1999, or somewhere around then at a Karate Studio...

Then from 2002-to around 2004 I booked a few shows for Monkee Torture! You guys were always fun!

We should play a show sometime! My band is Destroy Nate Allen. www.myspace.com/destroynateallen

[ChrisCrusher]

I bought a Wristrockets CD from Mutant pop in like 98-99, it fell out of my truck before I got to listen to it.

[Scott Von Rocket]

I bought a Wristrockets CD from Mutant pop in like 98-99, it fell out of my truck before I got to listen to it.

That's probably for the best. It's also probably for the best that I didn't see this post before the show, or else I might have brought you one, and then you'd be back at square one...

[Scott Von Rocket]

"Staring Daggers" off our upcoming album Under Surveillance is now up on our myspace page here: www.myspace.com/anxieties


*edit* I am a doofus and put a comma in the link instead of a period