Sunday, August 19, 2007

Lungfish, late '90s.


This video is of Lungfish playing Philadelphia sometime in the late ‘90s. I’m not sure if the memo has been issued officially, but they broke up at some point within the last year or two… and after years of retracted declarations, the singer, Dan Higgs, has also finally once and for all sold all of his famous old tattoo machines and completely quit tattooing (he is kind of, like, ‘every tattooer’s favorite tattooer’—not literally, but pretty much, well, basically literally. He is also, at this point in time, pretty much the most epic looking white man in the history of white men) to focus on his painting. He is releasing a lot of great solo music and I’m sure the other guys from the band will be releasing great music, post-Lungfish, as well.
…But as demonstrated in this video, they were so fucking good.

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

is this going to be like black flag or the ramones where 11 people came out to the shows and 20 years later they get fetishised by a bunch of bored nostalgia obsessed 20 somethings? rad cant wait.

August 19, 2007 9:41 PM  
Anonymous Stephen O'Mally said...

No. A huge amount of people were really really into Lungfish while they were around.
And actually, have you ever seen old videos of Black Flag playing? The shows were kinda giant, too.

August 20, 2007 2:48 AM  
Blogger OUR FUCKING BOUNDARIES. said...

everytime Lungfish would play in Austin, they have to play two shows...thats how many people would come out. will be missed. great band. awesome dude.

Ed, you should also check out Reptile House, if you can. The drummer from Samhain was in that band...or the Pupils, which are a lot newer. Either band is absolutely brilliant.

August 20, 2007 1:43 PM  
Blogger acrosshistory said...

i have seen lungfish a hand full of times, everytime i saw them, it was amazing.... dan kinda mellowed out by the later years, there was no barking the last time i saw them, and that i missed....

August 20, 2007 2:15 PM  
Blogger OUR FUCKING BOUNDARIES. said...

acrosshistory is full of poop.

August 22, 2007 5:38 AM  
Blogger OUR FUCKING BOUNDARIES. said...

I went ahead and uploaded the Reptile House albums, which is pre-Lungfish. This stuff isnt available anymore, so if you can find it somewhere, scoop it up. So funny to think of Dan Higgs playing with the drummer for Samhain...

Oh, and, ACROSSHISTORY, he WAS barking at the show in 2005. waaah.

REPTILE HOUSE (LP and SPLIT 7")
http://www.mediafire.com/?2jnuumxzznm

August 22, 2007 6:09 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i dunno. the official word is that they are on hiatus. they do that every few years. play tons then take a few years off...

also, rumor has it dan higgs is tattooing again. he does that too - stops tattooing, then starts again...

October 13, 2007 11:03 PM  

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