Great City Paper article about the Marble Bar from 2000

with great pics, check it out !

Slickee Boys - "Jailbait Janet" Live @ the Marble Bar 07-23-83 !

Pretty stoked to find quality video footage from the Marble Bar

Liquor Bike ! Live @ Memory Lane, 1996

More Small Intestine content !

Thanks Casey from Thrushes !

If any body has any audio, video, pictures or special memories of The Small Intestine please contact me at matt@morphius.com !

I hope to interview Ben Valis soon !

Just got a ton of stuff from the late '90's Baltimore punk/H.C. scene

Back before the swank improved Supreme Imperial was hosting indie-rock bands, 223 Pearl St was known as The Chop Shop and before that it was actually called...um....The Supreme Imperial. The Chop Shop was a real DIY punk venue..bands played upstairs and T-shirts were printed downstairs. I caught many great shows there, Ink and Dagger, Converge, Kid Dynamite and I was there when the police shut down a Boy Sets Fire show. Damon Pieri ,who did some of the promotion for the space, sent me a ton of great fliers. Damon along with Mike Riley, Kevin Weston, Jamie Arthurs and Carlos Guillen ran the Chop Shop and also set up shows at U.M.B.C. I hope to set up an interview with Mike Riley in the near future and my good friend and project contributor Scott Peters took lots of great pics at the Chop Shop and he will be providing those pretty soon.

Many more fliers to come !

Pics from Small Intestine ! Hey its Ben Valis !

Wanted ! Old Baltimore show flyers, pics of bands playing at old venues, videos or audio recordings of shows

I plan for this blog to precede the completion of deadvenues.com. So, while that site is under construction, please send me material relating to old/defunct music venues in Baltimore and the surrounding suburbs.

e-mail me at matt@morphius.com