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punksnax at hot mail daughtt comm
Here are my other pages on the net:
http://www.myspace.com/dalenthedustups
http://www.myspace.com/capitolpunishmentfresno
http://www.myspace.com/stagediverecordsfresno
http://www.myspace.com/hardcore84compilation
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=630132787&ref=profile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29908091@N00/
http://www.youtube.com/user/dustups
http://streamofcrust.blogspot.com
punksnax at hot mail daughtt comm
Here are my other pages on the net:
http://www.myspace.com/dalenthedustups
http://www.myspace.com/capitolpunishmentfresno
http://www.myspace.com/stagediverecordsfresno
http://www.myspace.com/hardcore84compilation
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=630132787&ref=profile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29908091@N00/
http://www.youtube.com/user/dustups
http://streamofcrust.blogspot.com
When I was 14 I saw the Beatles on tv. It had a huge effect on me. After many months of guitar practice
I ended up playing in a couple of teenage cover bands in the 60's. My first real gig was at the Fresno
Veterans Memorial Auditorium in '66, I think. As I remember, it was a gig put on by the City fathers to
encourage the kids who played in these rock bands. The name of our band was Copasetic Copulation, a
name that we quickly dropped and replaced with Muscle. After only one more gig at the Sunnyside
Swim and Raquet Club, which was our first-ever paying gig, $35, we broke up. After that I played only
occasionally during the early 70's. But I always had an acoustic guitar handy and played it from time to
time. In the late 70's I got into a new band that was starting up called the Subtractions. They were
playing this new kind of rock called punk. Almost no rules except to be punk, whatever that was.
Defining it ended up becoming it's main feature. Sometimes it seemed like it was as many different things
as there were people in it. After brief stints in a couple of punk and new wave bands I finally settled in
on a band with my girlfriend, Joceylin in 1981. Our first lead singer, Eric Tsuda thought up the name
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT. We continued to do this band as it drifted little by little away from punk
and into metally hardcore. Time went by. A lot of time went by. From '81 to '95 we went through
several different lead singers and drummers. We ended up going on a couple of US and European tours
and playing a lot of recording sessions. We put out a variety of records and CDs on several different
labels. In 1983 I released our first record on my newly-formed, Stagedive Records label and continued
to release records, tapes and CDs over the years to this day. From '85-'92 I operated a brick and
mortar record store in Fresno under the same name. In 2001 I finally joined the digital age and continued
to distribute various content online. All in all it has been good fun. Still playing in a band, occasional solo
performances and always working on new material.
Dale Stewart 9JUN2009.
I ended up playing in a couple of teenage cover bands in the 60's. My first real gig was at the Fresno
Veterans Memorial Auditorium in '66, I think. As I remember, it was a gig put on by the City fathers to
encourage the kids who played in these rock bands. The name of our band was Copasetic Copulation, a
name that we quickly dropped and replaced with Muscle. After only one more gig at the Sunnyside
Swim and Raquet Club, which was our first-ever paying gig, $35, we broke up. After that I played only
occasionally during the early 70's. But I always had an acoustic guitar handy and played it from time to
time. In the late 70's I got into a new band that was starting up called the Subtractions. They were
playing this new kind of rock called punk. Almost no rules except to be punk, whatever that was.
Defining it ended up becoming it's main feature. Sometimes it seemed like it was as many different things
as there were people in it. After brief stints in a couple of punk and new wave bands I finally settled in
on a band with my girlfriend, Joceylin in 1981. Our first lead singer, Eric Tsuda thought up the name
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT. We continued to do this band as it drifted little by little away from punk
and into metally hardcore. Time went by. A lot of time went by. From '81 to '95 we went through
several different lead singers and drummers. We ended up going on a couple of US and European tours
and playing a lot of recording sessions. We put out a variety of records and CDs on several different
labels. In 1983 I released our first record on my newly-formed, Stagedive Records label and continued
to release records, tapes and CDs over the years to this day. From '85-'92 I operated a brick and
mortar record store in Fresno under the same name. In 2001 I finally joined the digital age and continued
to distribute various content online. All in all it has been good fun. Still playing in a band, occasional solo
performances and always working on new material.
Dale Stewart 9JUN2009.