Mint Recs Blog

Thanks again to everyone who came out for this one. We managed to raise $1200 for The Safe Amplification Society. Can’t wait for the 25th Anniversary party…

Oh, and a big thank-you to Gerald Deo for these photographs. He’s great!

This photo was taken very likely by my sister, during the 1995 Inbreds and cub tour, on which Bill was tour manager person and, I believe, also van driver.They look like brothers! …don’t they? And check out the small pile of Canadian twenties behind them; this must have been post-show when they were counting their spoils from the night….

The Inbreds were a rock ‘n’ roll duo not unlike, configurationally speaking, our Mint early 90s favourite two-some, Duotang. Mike O’Neill sang…

Putting up gig posters in the pre milk paste era meant lots of staple gun action, which therefore meant lots of opportuntities to grab some pretty nifty posters; all you needed was pliers and staple removers. It also helped that people worked at record stores and campus/community radio stations, and were in bands….

Behind Beez is a Pluto photocopied poster (thank you, UBC), as well as a full colour newsprint cub Come Out, Come Out poster that was a better idea…

There were several eating establishments around the Dominion Building during the early to mid 90s, but not as many or of the high chichi calibre that exists here now. Back then, there was Smile Cafe up on Pender with its Duran Duran “Rio” artwork on the outside sandwich board,  the Cambie Pub, the Afro Canadian Restaurant (Ugali!), Jackson’s Beef House that begat Route 66 that begat The Victory, the wonderful Frannie’s Deli that I have written about before, the food…

Randy as a pot-bellied Cub Scout trophy winner, and shirtless Bill at the top of the stairs at his old 19th Avenue house a/k/a “the cub house”. These were sent out to perhaps 800 radio stations, newspapers, magazines, record stores, and writers and Mint pals — the American ones mailing-labeled and postage-stamped in an unused classroom around the corner and down the hall from the venerable college radio station, KCMU 90.3 FM (now known as KEXP) in the Communications Building on…