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John and Andee apparently had a band called Ticwar after AMF. Other than a song or two on compilations I don't believe they released anything. I was able to find this: http://www.ticwar.com/ which I guess explains it all. AMF definately not crap.

chet wrote:Andee (the drummer) is in a band now he said with the bassist of A Minor Forest and the owner of Temporary Resistance records. This might be the new line-up, or theyll do AMF songs and new stuff too from their new project? Im not 100% sure how it will work.

Any new info on this?

One of my favorite bands

I found them to be extremely boring and uninteresting both live and on record.

tommydski wrote:a fine band.

i always thought this band was considered 'metal'. a comparison to slint confuses me a bit.

I can see how they're superficially similar, but if you look at how the music is constructed, not so much. I would listen to AMF over Slint any day of the week. Super not crap.

They stayed at the house I lived in in Kansas City once.

They were nice. They made us dinner.

I don't remember a whole lot about their music though.

Not Crap.

Saw A Minor Forest a handful of times around San Francisco back when. Always fun.

Back in the '90s I tried to be the "older and wiser" good influence to my 18 year-old cousin who was going through a rough patch. I had just gotten my first car, so I would drive an hour to pick her up, take her out to dinner and then a show or a movie or whatever.

The first show we saw together was Drive Like Jehu, shortly after Yank Crime came out. I can't imagine she liked it at all, as she rarely listened to anything but the radio. After they played "Do You Compute" she yelled something like, "we're they all playing the same song?"

The next show we went to was A Minor Forest at Gilman Street. Total cacophony. A tremendous show. Besides my cousin, I took a woman I was sleeping with and her convicted murderer boyfriend (long, complicated story (surprise!)). So we get there and my girlfriend's boyfriend recognizes Andee. They used to host some Sabbath appreciation radio program on one of the college stations or something (I was paying more attention to our girlfriend than him).

The boyfriend and Andee go outside to talk and smoke cigarettes. My cousin wants to join them, cause she smokes, leaving me with the girlfriend. It was a win-win, really. I got to hang with the woman I adored and my cousin got to learn the finer points of Sabbath Appreciation (capital S, capital A).

Some time later the three of them come back in and my cousin is slurring. The asshole boyfriend got her drunk on peppermint schnapps or some shit. I had to drive her home to her mother and explain things (We went to this show, and... what's that? well, yea, I mean, it's not so much a concert as just this building run by a bunch of punks... what? yea, well, it's a kind of underground thing. --My not-so-happy aunt goes pale in horror-- Well, and she went outside to smoke... Oh, you didn't know she smokes... well, I guess you'll be surprised to know she drinks too, then).

It sucked. That was our last "cousins' night out" for a while.


Still, one of the better AMF shows I'd seen.