Marty Dog Kubiak

acoustic demo cass. 1997

Ugstad played drums in Hobart, but the real creative force behind that project was Marty Dog. He would be an immense creative force on me during those eight years and by proxy everybody I’ve played with since. After Hobart had been together for a while Marty started to play some solo acoustic shows, usually with DJ Buttafly, opening for Waffle Butt at the Airport Lounge. Those shows were always great, but listening to this in retrospect Marty Dog’s mellow, somber songs seem like a strange contrast to Waffle Butt’s ass shaking party funk. Nevertheless these songs are great. Marty used two boom boxes that had recording capabilities to make a two track recording. The latencies and the way the melodies are layered give it a haunted feeling. These songs are very heartfelt and really sad in the most genuine way, because they were recorded during really tough times for Marty Dog. Two of these were Hobart songs, two were originals and one was an Evergreen cover. I think this release was limited to about fifteen copies.

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Slag

feed 7" 1993

In the Scathe post I mentioned what I consider the first wave of heavy hardcore bands in Tucson in the early 90s, (as compared to the fast hardcore bands like Malignus Youth, American Deathtrip, Ice 9 etc.) but I forgot to mention Slag and they were the heaviest. They were really more metal than hardcore and they couldn’t get their records reviewed in Maximum Rock N’ Roll because they were “too metal.” This record is ugly and hate filled with tortured vocals supplied by the whole band, but there are occasional guitar breaks that are kind of melodic, then the rest of the band comes in and crushes all that. Kind of like slower Buzzoven songs with a second guitar player doing occasional melodic riffs. They even play mid-tempo and grind-core fast at times. Guitar player Jerid had played in Groundwork prior to this band. When Slag split up Jerid and bass player Brian would form Absinthe and drummer Nathan and guitarist Marty would form Hobart. Recorded by Iscariot drummer Mark Wyner and released on Ryan Butler’s (Landmine Marathon, Unruh, Wellington, Arcane Recording Studio) Fetus Records.

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