Fury 66 played to a sold-out crowd at Palookaville over Labor Day weekend. But Sunday's punk fest at Palookaville erased everything that was bad in the world. Fury 66 brought the sold-out club's energy to the point of psychosis. AFI ruled and proved you can do poppy things in songs without losing any venom.
Drummers never get enough glory, but they're the duct tape of the whole punk-rock infrastructure.
Sean, Good Riddance's drum hero, pulled off tenacious triplets and fills like nobody's business. Spaceboy's new CD, Getting Warm on the Trail of the Heat , is too epic for this lesser planet anyway. For info, write Frenetic Records, P.O. Box 640434, San Francisco, 94164-0434.