Drive Like Jehu

Yeah.

Rick, of course, of bands like Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Obits, etc.

This book came out late last year on Akashic Books, and it's a beautiful book.

Sounds like you have picked it up, Ryan?

Uh, there were some, like, big names for '90s emo at the time.

The Promise Ring, Hot Water Music, Napster, Mineral, Drive Like Jehu, uh, a bunch more.

And kinda doing research for this episode that I ran into a couple of comps that I was like, "I could talk about...

I could have talked about these comps." And, uh, it's just like label comps.

...

there was a band called Drive Like Jehu that I was pretty obsessed with, just noise, noisy.

No one else could stand them, but I would s- would love them, and Steve, it's like, "Oh, I love that band." And, um, and so we would just talk, but then Project got signed, and they were gonna record their first album, ironically, in Burbank, and which is where I lived.

And so they-

Beastie Boys, no doubt.

Obviously, all the San Diego bands, Rock from the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Olive Lawn, Pitchfork.

I loved all those bands.

And, you know, I liked the New York hardcore scene.

There is a there's something that Jason does a lot with the guitar that I think sounds more like San Diego post hardcore than it does DC post hardcore.

That's one of those things that I feel like makes blue tips so different from their actual peers is that they're almost more like drive like Jehu ish.

Yeah, I definitely hear it in the guitars for sure, because it is a little bit more interesting guitar work than and fast.

It does.

It's these kind of rock and roll, surfy kind of guitar riffs in how they're constructed.

I think Jason leans more into like, probably lands somewhere between the John Rhys and Rick Froberg.

I think it's more in line with Drive Like Jehu than any of the other John Rhys stuff.

Vocally, he always reminded me of Stephen Brodsky from Cave-In, too.

Blink it is.

Blink-182 or Drive Like Jehu? Who? Drive Like Jehu.

Blink.

I don't know who that is.

Blink it is.

Blink-182 or Drive Like Jehu? Who? Drive

Like Jehu.

Blink.

Mind-blowing.

Matt, are you a Drive Like Jehu fan? Hit me up.

What's better, Yank Crime or, what was the other one? One and two.

I could never remember, I could never decide which album I liked better, the first or the second.

And I always was a Drive Like Jehu over Rocket from the Crypt guy, but then I switched.

Now I'm a Rocket from the Crypt guy.

I don't know.

But like to your point, you were part of that scene that started to have that sort of geographical claim and wave that flag proudly, which is which is really cool.

Well, one thought this conversation brings to mind is when I was 16, say, and I was aware of the Seattle scene and the San Diego scene, had Drive Like Jehu and Rockin' From the Crypt and some of those bands, and I was aware of the Chicago scene.

i never would have even really considered that 30 years later we'd be talking about the sacramento scene so that that's because we we felt like especially during the early days we didn't even know if we had a scene yet we were just trying to desperately you know make uh make something happen and and play at the one or two clubs that existed and when we were lucky enough to have a band come to sacramento and not just come to san francisco trying to get the opening spots on those shows and you know i drove I drove over to the Bay Area just constantly as a teenager to go to the shows that didn't come to the smaller market, you know? So I went to SF and Berkeley and Oakland, San Jose, like, you know, so many times during that era.

But like, yes, I guess, you know, looking back, you could lump it all in, but also Sacramento does have its own thing separate from San Francisco.