Vile wrote:
] Rock and Roll band Sunshine Flipside broke up on CBGB's stage
] last night after an "incindiary" performance that out-punked
] some of the more seasoned pros on the bill.

I've posted here about Sunshine Flipside before. This is Vile's review of their last show at CBGBs.

Lonnie, the frontman, had dozens of fire crackers taped to his guitar which he set off during their final song causing massive explosions to rage across the stage Great White style.. Needless to say, Lonnie got his ass kicked out of the place by the bouncers after they doused him with water.. Read the full gig review.

] "Oh, you are sooo out of here, asshole!" The hippie
] looking soundman screamed as he violently flung the guitar at
] Rutledge, who stood up, held out one hand, and caught the
] instrument in one hand, without even paying attention to it.
] Upon catching the guitar (and making that soundman piss his
] baggy jeans), Lonnie smashed the burned, wet axe against the
] stage and screamed right at the man who assaulted him:
] "How do you like THAT shit, motherfucker?"
] "Where are you from? Massachusetts?" The soundman
] screamed cryptically before Lonnie threw the guitar down on
] the stage and booked through CB's bar and out the door, a run
] that was filled with numerous kicks and punches from the
] fatassed bouncers. He didn't care.

And this is the best part:

] When asked by a bouncer "Why?"
] "This is CBGB's and that was punk rock! And if you don't
] think so, then Fuck you!" He screamed at the angry mob as he
] ran like hell away, into the night, never to be seen at CBGB's
] again.

Go Lonnie!

] God bless you, Sunshine Flipside! You never let us down!

I have a feeling this is not the last of Sunshine Flipside.

Was anyone video taping the show?

Sunshine Flipside Explode CBGB's, Charges Not Filed, 12/27/03

Here it is, as promised, the video of the last Flipside gig.

I have the feeling that the site is slammed. I was unable to download it for awhile.

(Could someone please recommend a reliable public tracker? I can generate a torrent..)

Sunshine Flipside Last Show

The Flipside boys promise to "fuck it up for everyone" again tommorow at CBGBs.. For those who are unfamilar with Sunshine Flipside, they play Rock n' Roll of the truest garage variety.. Most offten labeled "schizadelic-stomp-rock".. They just finished recording what will be their first major label release. They put on a great live show.

I will be present with my crew of trouble makers. We plan to do exactly what we did the last time they played at CBGBs.. Without expanding on that, maybe this will be the time we all wind up in jail, you never know.. It would be a shame to miss out on all the fun, so if you are in NYC, be sure to come out..

Sunshine Flipside, Saturday 29th, at CBGB

Richard Hell in the New York Times...

CBGB’S shuts down this weekend.

It was a private world. We dreamed it up. It flowered out of our imaginations.

How often do you get to do that?

CBGB’s was like a big playhouse, site of conspiracies, orgies, delirium, refuge, boredom, meanness, jealousy, kindness, but most of all youth.

God loves CBGB’s.

I will always remember the line that Sunshine Flipside once opened a show at CBGB's with. "Hello everyone, we're here to fuck it up for everyone!"

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

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