Pseudo Heroes

With Down By Law rating highly, here's a band that sounds a lot like them due largely to the singer's voice and the fact that Pseudo Heroes feature the Sam guitarist as DBL.

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In the news section a couple of bands, Gripper and The Dissociates that have featured in this blog have donated songs to help out with the natural and manmade disasters in Japan.

You can order the CD's here.

Down By Law - Last of The Epitaph

When Dag Nasty covered Wire's 12xu some people excusably assumed that the band were covering Brian Baker's other and/or better band Minor Threat. Here is Down By Law covering the singer, Dave Smalley's other and/or better band Dag Nasty.



And here is Down By Law's final Epitaph album with the telling title of Last of The Sharpshooters. I remember reading an interview with Dave Smalley in some metal magazine years back where he stated that he really looked up to Paul Weller and there's no denying the influence of The Jam on this album and DBL's other material.

Fly the Flag

Down By Law - Punkrockacademyfightsong

Down By Law were a band I discovered through a Punk-o-rama CD that came free with some surfing/skating magazine. When I first heard them I had no idea that the singer was Dave Smalley from Dag Nasty and was at one time fronting ALL.
At the time I was familiar with his work on Can I Say.

It came as a shock to me to recently learn that Epitaph records put all the Down By Law albums on their label out of print. However Dag Nasty albums are still in print. This may or may not be because Epitaph is owned by a Bad Religion member and another Bad Religion member is the Dag Nasty guitarist.

This album is the first album to feature Florida native, Sam Williams on guitar. Sam has been a stable band member ever since. On a more personal sidenote, Sam has recently became a father to twin daughters.

Many consider this Down By Law's best album. I haven't heard them all but I like the music on this album more than a lot of melodic punk that's around today. Haircut is somewhat dated lyrically with its Pearl Jam clones and grunge movement references. There is also a punked up cover of The Proclaimers song 500 miles. Edit: Found this youtube video clip of their song Hit or miss which is featured on this album: Check it out.

Songlist:

01. Punk Won

02. Hit Or Miss

03. Flower Tattoo

04. Sympathy For The World

05. 500 Miles

06. Brief Tommy

07. Bright Green Globe

08. Minusame

09. Drummin' Dave, Hunter Up

10. Punk As Fuck

11. 1944

12. The King & I

13. Haircut

14. Chocolate Jerk

15. Sam I

16. Heroes & Hooligans

17. Soldier Boy

18. Goodnight Song


Get it.