We Are The Pist

The Pist - Input Equals Output

Seminal Conneticut punk band. You could hear these tracks blasting out of any given house on Chesterfield in Pittsburgh in the 90's, or out of my boombox while tooling around my crumbling NE Ohio suburban neighborhood on an old Nash skateboard when I was 16.

This collection of comp and 7" tracks (they seemed to have done a split with every mid 90's punk band you never heard of... Half Empty, anyone?[Believe it or not, Against All Authority blows them away on their side of that particular split]) came out fairly recently on Havoc Records. Felix is a vinyl buff, if you don't already know, so you should be able to get a real copy of this through them. Far superior to the "Ideas Are Bulletproof" LP, I don't care what you fucking say. If you've ever listened to that LP and wondered why people like this band so much, the answers are in this collection...

From Wikipedia:

"The Pist was an American hardcore punk band that was formed in Connecticut in the winter of 1992 by Al Ouimet on vocals & bass, Bill Chamberlain on guitar, and Greg Bennick on drums. They were a popular band in the DIY punk scene of the 1990s. After a few lineup changes, the band eventually solidified as Al on vocals, Bill on guitar, Brian Marshall on drums and Rick Abbott on bass. The band toured the U.S. four times in the ensuing years and broke up in 1996.

While they were around they played shows with the likes of Aus-Rotten, Blanks 77, The Bouncing Souls, Capitalist Casualties, Los Crudos, and the Voodoo Glow Skulls.

In 2002, The Pist reformed to play two reunion shows with The Unseen when the New Haven, Connecticut club the Tune Inn closed. Members remain active in the punk scene in bands like Caustic Christ and Behind Enemy Lines (Bill) and God's Left Hand and The Deacons (Al). A reissue of their LP and a compilation of all of their non-LP releases was released on Havoc Records, and the band will marked the release of their discography by reuniting to play a series of reunion shows in summer 2007."

My dude James Downing found this for me after I lamented not being able to find the tracks from the "Pogo Attack" comp, which is my fav shit of theirs. Again, James, YOU RULE.

"I hate music, I hate what it's become..."

CRUCIAL.
well... for me, anyway.