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[Joe Thanks]

Well, it�s official: I�m headed to Ulsan in two months. Are there any Ulsanites interested in doing a three-chord blitzkrieg project? I will hookup with the guitar but a drummer and a bassist are needed (possibly a vocalist as I don�t sing). Even if you �Suck� we can practice, practice, practice. It�s the spirit that counts.

Some references:

RAMONES
Guitar Wolf
Cramps

spaghetti westerns
pro wrestling
b-movies
Troma




Next question: anybody know of any decent music shops in Ulsan to recommend? (I am sure there aren�t many) I will end up buying a new guitar there.
Cheers,

Joe

[Joe Thanks]

32 hits so far and no takers.

Tisk tisk. Lots�a folks with no sense of adventure.

Joe

[kylehawkins2000]

Punk in Ulsan? hahahahahahahah

Good luck!

[Joe Thanks]

[ulsanchris]

i'm in ulsan and i play the guitar and i suck at it. Sorry i'm not much of a punk fan either. there are a few music stores around ulsan don't know if any of them are good. i've been in a few. You can pick up a cheap korean imitation of a strat or gibson for a few hundred thousand won.
I might be able to help you out with getting you a few band mates. I know a guy that is in the university band club. Maybe he would know some people who would want to be in a punk band.

[Joe Thanks]

[ulsanchris]

no problem

[gyopoboy]

i f*ckin' dig punk so much~

haven't heard any korean punk live before, but i have seen some on TV.. and it's aiight~ heh..

big ol skooler here~

i'm diggin a lot of jap punk at the moment...

mach pelican and teengenerate~

punk on dude~ heh


p.s. pm me if you can't find any punk rocker to sing for ya~ i'm willin to give my chords a try hehe

[kylehawkins2000]

Hey Joe,

Don't take my comments so seriously.

I like some punk. I have nothing against it.

I lived in Ulsan for two years though.....and imagining some foreigners in a punk band there struck me as funny. It's a pretty conservative area with no music scene to be heard of. You can occassionly find some bands playing but nothing really punk....

Make it happen though! Good luck!

Kyle

[Joe Thanks]

Hola, companero.

I know in Seoul there's the Club Drug scene, but I never investigated it when I was last there because I was knackered from working all the time. I did stock up on the few discs released, like all of the CRYING NUT, PUNK KID, and a few others. Even middle-of-the-road stuff like CHEERY FILTER.

I hear in PUSAN there�s the Astro Boys or something similar.

JAPNESE PUNK � I am very partial to old stuff like BLUE HEARTS and THE PLASTICS, as well as pure �jet� rock�n�roll like Guitar Wolf, Jackie & The Cendrics and Lyca & the Cosmonauts.

I can�t stomach much of the �noise� crap like the BOREDOMS, but I do enjoy heavy stuff like ZENI GEVA.

What�s your base of operation in SK?

I find a lot of the SK punk stuff is very Green Day inspired stuff. I want to take it back old school and strip everything down to solo-less, pure rock with speed and energy and rhythm and piss on the uniforms and posturing. LOTS of covers too.


I�ll PM ya in a few months. It�s good to see more folks keen on the idea.

Cheers,

Joe

[Joe Thanks]

Thanks for clarifying. I�ll still use the self-induced rise that it got out of me to pursue it though! Sorry to read into worse than intended.

I�m sure it�s conservative. I spent time in Pohang, which has about 200,000 more folks and whatnot. Ulsan is simply a base of operation. If the group got spots in Pusan, Daegu �wherever - to play sets - we�d do it (yeah � I am speaking for me, myself and I right now). I am not even thinking about money but being able to go out and play it and win some friends and turn a lot of heads (he he he ). SK has a lot of disenfranchised youth and I�d hate to see all of �em drowning in third-rate imitations of mediocre Japanese technopop.

The absence of a �scene� there might be to one�s advantage. The big thing is to make sure that rehearsal space can be secured.

So, to change the topic - what places are worth chillin' at in Ulsan? Good pubs, etc. ? Ulsan web is vague and wholly without details beyond the pedestrian pub profiles.

Cheers,

Joe

[U.S.A.]

Hey Joe,

Check out the following page for more pics of the Rock Tigers.
http://www.theulsanweb.com/pictures/2002_rock_show/2002_rock_show2.html

[Joe Thanks]