Bakersfield Punk Rock Potluck and some music

 Ok so I know I haven't posted anything for a while now, well no excuse for it but I'm still dealing with different Dr's for different things along with me trying to deal with my depression and being in constant pain (bulging discs in my lower back and severe nerve damage/neuropathy in my feet and legs). That and all the different shows I've gone to and have recorded and took pictures of the bands, I'm trying to get caught up on editing everything, posting videos to Youtube and converting all the bands sets into mp3's.       And now up top of all that in the last month me and a friend are setting up a house show with different local bands (and it's also a potluck) trying to help strengthen and unify our local scene here in Bakersfield. So at the end of the month (May 30th) we are having a Punk Rock Potluck house show with 4 bands we are gonna try and make this a monthly thing with different local bands, so I've been keeping myself busy doing all this stuff and I'm hoping on putting together some comps (digital for now and maybe physical copies if I can afford to make some) of all the local bands we have here in town and surrounding areas.

Well onto some music now , these are 2 band that I got to see when I first moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1996 (well one is from Tulsa and the other is from O.K.C.). So first up is one of Tulsa's finest (next to the exceptional N..O.T.A.) is Brother Inferior. When I first moved to Oklahoma I actually lived about an hour north of Tulsa in a small town called Mannford and I would go into Tulsa to hopefully be able to find some shows to go to, not knowing anyone or knowing the town didn't help but I finally find a record store called Starship Records where I found flyers to some show, the first show I went to was in a upstairs loft area and I don't remember all the bands since they were all new to me but if I remember right the main band was THE KIDS WHO NEVER LEARNED TO COLOR INSIDE THE LINES. After that I kinda got to know more people and started going to more shows when I could find them and one band I really enjoyed seeing play and were nice people were Brother Inferior, I got to see them a few times in different locations in Tulsa and 2 of them were absolutely great. One show was at The Eclipse (I think) with a reunion show with N.O.T.A. (fucking amazing to see them again) and the other was at the legendary CAIN'S BALLROOM (yeah the same place the SEX PISTOLS played at on Jan 11, 1978) with the almighty SPAZZ.                                                                                                                                                          The SPAZZ show had some other heavy ass bands play RASH OF BEATINGS (from Fort Smith, Arkansas) and my first time seeing O.K.C.'s SUBSANITY 

SUBSANITY would be kinda hard to describe their sound, you could see them at one show and they could play more sludgy Black Sabbath tunes or the next time you seen them it was more black metal, death, grindcore stuff or a complete mix of both. I got to see them a couple times when I lived there and when I moved back a few years later I seen Mike (singer for SUBSANITY) play with his other band A FATE FAR WORSE in Norman, Oklahoma.                                                                                                                           Anyways now I leave you some tunes from 2 of Oklahoma's great bands (well to me anyways)                                                             BROTHER INFERIOR                       

        1995 - Bound And Gagged       

   1996 - Blasphemy & Treason    

  1997 - Anthems For Greater Salvation  

    1997 - split N.O.T.A. - Punk Torture Night/Freedoms Sons  

1998 - Six More Reasons     

1998 - split Whorehouse Of Representatives    

  1999 - Anthems '94 - 97'





                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               SUBSANITY  

1990 - 4 Track Demo  

1992 - Subsanity   

1995 - '91 - '95  

1996 - Lost On Earth  

1996 - split Ratpiss - Lost On Earth/Frozen Sunset   

1997 - Human Is Shit  

1999 - Future Is War   

2002 - Logic Plague  

2014 - Rare And Unreleased







                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        So go listen to 2 great and and if your in Bakersfield come out to our PUNK ROCK POTLUCK  on May 30th, come for the food and some good music and great bands, and some last minute info and addition we will having a touring band from out of state playing now.                     So come out and support the local and touring bands, let's try to strengthen and unify our local scene by supporting all the bands playing just not the one band you are there to see.  A big shout out to the locals bands GRUNCLE DEE JAY, SCOOWOP!, TAKE HEED and VISCERATE accepting to play this and a very big THANK YOU to Travis (since it's his house that this is being held at) and stay around for the touring band because you will not be disappointed                                                                                                       

Jerry's Pizza 02/21/2026 MEIJJ, PIG STICK, G.A.H.D., SQUID PISSER

 Ok to start off I hadn't heard of Squid Pisser until I seen the flyer for this show so I went to see a new band (well to me anyways) but to also see and support the other bands that I'm friends with.           Opening the show were the local band MEIJJ playing their hardcore,noise punk powerviolence, these youngsters keep getting better each time I have seen them play since they had their first band BLACKENED HORIZONS, but this time they introduced their new female singer MERCY. She helped adding more sound to them with the male/female vocals.  https://meijj.bandcamp.com/    https://www.instagram.com/meijj.violence/    MEIJJ 02/21/2026 @ Jerry's Pizza   

   Up next from So. Cal were the awesome PIG STICK so you know what to expect from the lyrics with a band name like that. These guys are always great to see and they are good people on top of it, they have had a few member changes since they started out but each time they sound tighter and better.  

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6mEXLgMj61A3sCeDQlhnkt   https://sinpunx661.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-your-badge-demo    https://www.instagram.com/pigstick_official/   https://www.facebook.com/pigstickofficial                PIG STICK 02/21/2026 @ Jerry's Pizza

   Next up were Bako's homegrown favorite Crust band G.A.H.D. (GREED AND HUMAN DISGUST), it don't help they I've known most of the members for a long time, they were probably 15 or so when I met them and now they're in there 40's. They are always a great band to go see and the energy that they put out when they are on stage. 

  https://gahdxix.bandcamp.com/track/gahd    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083628376637       https://www.instagram.com/gahdxix/     G.A.H.D. 02/21/2026 @ Jerry's Pizza

  The headliner's were new to me but SQUID PISSER were great with their hardcore/noise core sound, well with a member that has been in GWAR and CANCER CHRIST that can kinda give you an idea what they might sound like. They had a great sound and they all had masks on (just be glad that this show wasn't in the middle of the summer here, anyone who has gone to show's in the basement at Jerry's Pizza will know the suffering). The only thing that got to me were all the different colored light and the strobe lights, it added to their set but it was making me dizzy and it made it kinda hard to film. 

 https://squidpisser.bandcamp.com/    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090624510614    https://www.instagram.com/squidpisser/     SQUID PISSER 02/21/2026 @ Jerry's Pizza

       Here are pictures of the bands sets, I take the pictures and videos from different areas and angles and if the sound quality varies on and off I don't have anything fancy to film or video with I just do it all on a Samsung Galaxy A 53 cell phone.                                                                                                           MEIJJ  

                                                                  PIG STICK                                                                               

                                                        G.A.H.D. (GREED AND HUMAN DISGUST)
   

                                                                                     

                                                             SQUID PISSER