If you dig back through the archives, you’ll find several posts where I talk about the magic of the Everything Is Not OK gigs that Ross curated last decade. It was truly something else to see other people (and punks but not just punks) feeling seen and celebrated, and I dare say that I haven’t had any (or at least not many) punk related euphorias that have matched those weekends in the years since. The Mississippi punks were a huge part of those vibes, rolling up en masse and supporting each other. Lifting each other up and making sure that the rest of us saw their friends and their scene for what is was – creative, vibrant, determined….important. So today, seven plus years after a long drive back to California, I’m jamming this two song DUMSPELL tape and thinking to myself “yeah…that shit really was magic.” And I’m grateful to (have) be(en) a witness.
