The Nothings-1995

We opened for Blanks77 at the Causeway. The show went great considering we only had one week to prepare a singer and a drummer, but Dinko and Mango did there jobs well. We recorded a demo called "13" at MassComm and made around 100 copies of it. I don't have a copy to share here, I wish I did though because it was an incredible tape. Shortly after recording it Dinko quit to become an air traffic controller or something.



Drummers are notoriously unreliable. Over the years we must have gone though a dozen trying to find the right guy. Along the way I had taught myself how to play, so after Dinko quit, I said "fuck it" and switched to drums full time. We got our friend Gois to play 2nd guitar and carried on.

This is The Nothings studio session from 1995

Brad Fletcher on drums, Johnny Mango on vocals, Nick Giannone and Gois on guitar and Nick Camilleri on bass. There is also a live recording from the Garage. I found it on an unmarked tape, it's from 1995, just not sure when. This was our first time in a studio, I had just finished school at MassComm. We only paid maybe a couple hundred dollars if that to use the studio, Straightjacket Sound, in Allston MA. Matt Bagarozzo, who we dubbed "Mad Bag 'O Loads" was the owner and was a cool guy, kind of a stoner. Gois was getting really bitchy about trying to overdub his guitar track, his amp had, correction, MY AMP had fucked up during the live take, so he had to overdub. He kept coming in late and not playing right and starting yelling at everybody. Bag O Loads said at one point "don't cop a tude bro" I think Nick G accused Gois of doing dope, so Gois went outside and threw bricks at the building...it was ridiculous.

Ron Lacer from Fanatic Records put out "The Runt of the Litter" CD compilation in 1995. Our song "I See You Bleed" was on there as well as songs from August Spies, Kermits Finger, Bratface and other Boston punk bands. We used the other songs from the studio session to put out a tape. I don't think it had a name, but I might be wrong. The cover was a picture of a pants-less Mango superimposed over the ruins of a destroyed building! We sold a couple hundred of those tapes. We played The Causeway, The Rat, all the Boston bars and some halls. Gois was living with Nick G and was involved somehow with some items being stolen from the Giannone house, so he was kicked out/quit/had his life threatened...it was ugly. That was early 1996.