25th Anniversary: Earth Crisis – Destroy the Machines

It’s 1995. I’m at a small venue, packed to the rafters with a dense crush of bodies up by the stage. A lot of oversized hoodies with backpacks slung as far down as possible, Chuck Taylors, a few giant basketball jerseys sporting non-basketball logos, some with shirts under them, some not. Dark black, comically-sized X’s marked in sharpie adorn many hands. A diminutive man with medium-length blonde hair sprouting over a black bandana takes the stage and grabs the mic. He’s wearing a long white t-shirt with some band or another on it, camo shorts tumbling past his knees. The … Continue reading 25th Anniversary: Earth Crisis – Destroy the Machines