Description Teen Idles, The ‎– Minor Disturbance E.P. Label: Dischord Records ‎– Dischord 1 Format: Vinyl, 7", EP, 33 ⅓ RPM Country: US Released: 1980 Genre: Rock Style: Hardcore, Punk Tracklist: A1 Teen Idles 0:44A2 Sneakers 1:27A3 Get Up And Go 0:52A4 Deadhead 1:19B1 Fleeting Fury 1:19B2 Fiorucci Nightmare B3 Getting In My Way 1:44B4 Too Young To Rock 2:00 Companies: Pressed By – Nashville Record Productions – NR12367 Credits: Artwork By [Graphics] – Jeff NelsonBass – Ian MacKayeDrums – Jeff NelsonEngineer – Don ZientaraGuitar – Geordie GrindlePhotography [Back] – Jay RabinowitzPhotography [Front] – Susie JosephsonProducer – Skip GroffVocals – Nathan Strejcek Notes: Engineered at Inner Ear Studios. 1st pressing — heavy cover stock, surface scratches easily (1000 pressed) << THIS COPY <<2nd pressing — thin cover, "thanks a lot, jan ($-2nd pressing)" (1000 pressed) The Teen Idles were a punk rock band formed in 1979 in Washington, DC, by Ian MacKaye (bass), Nathan Strejcek (vocals), Georgie Grindle (guitar), and Jeff Nelson (drums), all high school classmates. The band was born out of the demise of The Slinkees, which featured Grindle, Nelson, MacKaye, and vocalist Mark Sullivan, who broke up after Sullivan, a year older than the rest of the band, went to college. The group played various shows around DC and, in the summer of 1980, travelled to California for 2 shows, getting an eye-full of Los Angeles burgeoning hardcore scene and importing a number of the scene&apos;s traits back to DC, including slamdancing. The Teen Idles proved to be influential to many of the younger punk fans in and around Washington DC, inspiring a new wave of bands who called themselves "harDCore". In late 1980, the band broke up. This mainly due to tension between Grindle and Nelson. Grindle&apos;s born again Christian girlfriend disapproved of the band, causing him to question his participation, which brought him into conflict with Nelson, who was an atheist. Also adding to the mix was MacKaye&apos;s, who was the band&apos;s lyricist, dissatisfaction with Strejeck&apos;s performances and his own desire to sing. Following their split, the band took money they had saved from their shows to issue an EP called "Minor Disturbance" on their own Dischord Records. Grindle would drop out of the music scene altogether. Strejcek would help Nelson and MacKaye with Dischord but was soon edged out by the other two, who were dissatisfied with his work ethic, especially after he left a box of Teen Idles records sitting on top of a hot car engine, rendering them unplayable. Nelson and MacKaye formed Minor Threat after the Teen Idles split while Strejcek formed Youth Brigade. Youth Brigade was short-lived and Strejcek soon bowed out of the scene altogether while Nelson and MacKaye continue to run Dischord to this day. The two have also participated in several acts over the years (although Nelson is largely retired from performing). In 1996, in honor of Dischord&apos;s 100th release, the label issued a Teen Idles demo on vinyl. The Teen Idles were an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in August 1979. Consisting of teenagers Nathan Strejcek, Geordie Grindle, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, the Idles&apos; recorded two demo sessions and the 1980 Minor Disturbance EP before their broke up in November 1980. The influential independent record label Dischord Records was originally created with the sole purpose of releasing the Teen Idles 7" record. They were an early landmark in the D.C. hardcore movement, and MacKaye and Nelson would later form the seminal punk outfit Minor Threat. The Teen Idles were among the first punk rock groups from the early 1980s hardcore movement to break out of their regional scene to tour and sell nationally. Inspired by other American punk bands like the Cramps and Bad Brains, the Teen Idles&apos; music was an early version of hardcore punk, and an attempt, in the words of MacKaye, "to get away from a really corrupted music." Their appearances, lyrics and musical style sought to revive a punk movement that they believed had lost its original zeal. In 1978, Washingtonian teenager Ian MacKaye discovered punk rock through a local college radio station, Georgetown University&apos;s WGTB. He met Jeff Nelson, a classmate of his, after Nelson set off a pipe bomb outside their school and MacKaye went to investigate. The two became friends and quickly discovered their shared interest in punk. MacKaye and Nelson saw their first punk show in January 1979—a benefit concert by the Cramps for WGTB. The concert inspired the pair; MacKaye later admitted, "It blew my mind because I saw for the first time this huge, totally invisible community that had gathered together for this tribal event. I thought, &apos;This appeals to me. This is the world I think I can breathe in. This is what I need.&apos;" After seeing a Bad Brains concert, MacKaye and Nelson began playing in a punk band, the Slinkees, with school friends George Grindle and Mark Sullivan. The Slinkees played a single show before Sullivan went to college. After a failed attempt to recruit MacKaye&apos;s friend Henry Garfield (later Henry Rollins), the band recruited Nathan Strejcek as a vocalist. The Slinkees soon renamed themselves the Teen Idles. After touring and practising for several months, the band recorded two demo sessions at a local studio in February and April 1980, despite the engineer and a visiting band openly laughing as they recorded. They also began playing at house parties and pizza parlors, and opened for Bad Brains at an art gallery, in a dilapidated row house in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood, called Madam&apos;s Organ. To revive the fervor of punk, which the band felt was being distorted by New Wave, the Idles sought to look as intimidating as possible. They shaved their heads, grew mohawks and wore various punk accessories. Nelson and MacKaye even drove thumbtacks into the soles of their boots so they would make an "ominous clacking" sound when they walked. The band&apos;s visual presentation was at odds with their demeanor; according to MacKaye, "in our shows and within our own community, we were totally goofy guys. We were painfully honest — we didn&apos;t shoplift, we didn&apos;t vandalize, we didn&apos;t spray-paint. We don&apos;t do anything — everybody just hates us because of the way we look." After a number of concerts in D.C. opening for bands such as the Untouchables, the Idles decided to tour the West Coast in August 1980. Along with roadies Garfield and Sullivan, the band traveled to California. They were immediately hassled by police upon their arrival, and after challenging the police, Nelson was handcuffed for an hour. When the Teen Idles eventually began their tour, they were refused entry at Los Angeles&apos; Hong Kong Cafe because of their age. Originally due to open for the Dead Kennedys and the Circle Jerks, they settled for playing the next night, opening for the Mentors and a band called Puke, Spit and Guts in exchange for just $15. The Teen Idles impressed those at the venue; MacKaye later said "People were freaked out by how fast [we played]." Upon returning to D.C., the Teen Idles were asked by Skip Groff, owner of the Washington record store Yesterday and Today, to record some tracks at Inner Ear, a small recording studio in Arlington, Virginia. They were introduced to engineer and owner Don Zientara (the "studio" was a four-track recorder at Zientara&apos;s house). The Teen Idles played live in the basement while Zientara engineered and Groff produced. Seven tracks were recorded in total. However, the band were undecided about what to do with the tapes and eventually shelved them. In late 1980, the Teen Idles decided to break up, mostly because Grindle had fallen out with Nelson. Grindle&apos;s new girlfriend, a born-again Christian, disapproved of the band, causing Grindle to question his role. Tensions between Grindle and Nelson, who was an outspoken atheist, escalated until Grindle decided to quit. Their last show was on November 6, when they opened for SVT at the 9:30 Club. It was a key event for the popularity of all-ages shows—where alcohol was not for sale, and thus no age restriction for admission. Previously, at the Mabuhay Gardens in California, the band were allowed entry to the club only after big Xs were drawn on their hands—this showed that they were under the legal drinking age. The Idles suggested this to 9:30&apos;s management, and vowed that if youths were caught drinking, the club could ban them. The management agreed; the Teen Idles&apos; final show passed without incident. After a year in existence, the band had earned $700 total. They now faced two options: divide the money among the members, or press the recordings they had made with Zientara at Inner Ear. Choosing the latter, Nelson, Strejcek and MacKaye formed Dischord Records with Groff&apos;s help, to release the recordings. The band sent the tapes to a pressing plant in Nashville, Tennessee that specialized in pressing country music records. Initially puzzled by the request to put eight songs on a 7" record, they pressed 1,000 copies. For the cover, the band took apart another 7" record sleeve and used it as a template for their own cover design. They photocopied it on 11" × 17" paper, which the band members cut out with scissors, folded and glued by hand, then into these inserted the records and lyric sheets. They repeated the process for subsequent pressings, totaling 10,000 hand-assembled records. Released in January 1981 Minor Disturbance was a local success, receiving radio air-play and reviews from fanzines such as Touch and Go, which meant that Dischord now had enough money to release records by other bands. After the Teen Idles disbanded, Grindle chose not to pursue a career in music. By the time of Minor Disturbance&apos;s release, Nelson and MacKaye had already formed Minor Threat. The new band&apos;s first show was on December 17, 1980. Strejcek became involved in the running of Dischord, until Nelson and MacKaye, disappointed by his lack of effort, "decided to take it back." The Teen Idles appeared on a number of hardcore-punk compilations throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Dischord, to celebrate their one hundredth release, issued Teen Idles in 1996, comprising the two demo sessions the band had recorded in February and April 1980. According to journalist Michael Azerrad, the Teen Idles "played proto-hardcore tunes that skewered their social milieu". MacKaye later explained in the hardcore documentary Another State of Mind: "When I became a punk, my main fight was against the people who were around me — friends." When MacKaye was thirteen he moved to Palo Alto, California for nine months. On his return, his friends had begun taking drugs and drinking. He remarked, "I said, &apos;God, I don&apos;t want to be like these people, man. I don&apos;t fit in at all with them.&apos; So it was an alternative." The graphic emblem most associated with the Straight Edge movement is a black "X", typically drawn onto the wearers hands with a marker. According to MacKaye, "We were in San Francisco, and we played a place called Mabuhay Gardens. They figured out we were underage, and they wouldn&apos;t let us play. We worked out a deal with their management that we just wanted to play and we weren&apos;t going to drink, so they got a marker and put a big &apos;X&apos; on our hand, So we came back to Washington D.C. and went to this nightclub, the 9:30, and said &apos;Hey look, we&apos;re not going to drink and we will put this &apos;X&apos; on our hand. If you see us drinking you can throw us out forever. We are not going to drink, we just came to see the music.&apos; "The band adopted the marking, and though it was initially meant to signify youth, it became a wider emblem for bands prepared to play to audiences under the legal age to be served alcohol. MacKaye noted that at the time the symbol "wasn&apos;t supposed to signify straight edge—it was supposed to signify kids. It was about being young punk rockers... it represents youth." Most of the band&apos;s lyrics were written by MacKaye. Like the group&apos;s appearance, their lyrical subject matter reacted against the then dominant New Wave scene, and the perceived complacency that many first-wave punk bands, including the Clash and the Damned seemed to have fallen into by the early 1980s. In "Fleeting Fury", Strejcek pleads, "The clothes you wear have lost their sting / So&apos;s the fury in the songs you sing". The Teen Idles were strongly influenced by punk bands in Washington and California, such as Bad Brains, Black Flag and the Germs. These band&apos;s influence is reflected in The Teen Idles&apos; songs, which consisted mostly of Strejcek shouting over a one-two hardcore beat, with MacKaye and Grindle providing short and speedy riffs, interspersed with quick guitar solos from Grindle. Minor Disturbance was the only studio release by the American hardcore punk band The Teen Idles. It was released in December 1980 through Dischord Records (No. 1). Comprising eight songs, Minor Disturbance referenced a number of issues pertinent to the band, from being turned away at local concerts due to their age ("Too Young to Rock") to what they felt was the increasing complacency of many first wave punk bands ("Fleeting Fury"). Upon its release, Minor Disturbance, Dischord Records&apos; first release, received positive reviews from local fanzines and gained airplay on local radio stations. The Teen Idles were a Washington, D.C. hardcore punk band that formed in 1979. Comprising vocalist Nathan Strejcek, guitarist Geordie Grindle, bassist Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson, the band evolved out of The Slinkees. After original vocalist Mark Sullivan left for college, The Slinkees first tried to recruit Henry Garfield (later Rollins) before Strejcek joined. After renaming themselves The Teen Idles, the band toured locally; they played at a range of venues, including opening for Bad Brains at an art gallery called Madam&apos;s Organ. The Teen Idles performed two demo sessions at a local studio in February and April 1980, despite the engineer and a visiting band openly laughing as they recorded.[citation needed] They chose not to release the recordings, and instead embarked on a tour of the West Coast in August 1980. Upon their return to Washington D.C., The Teen Idles met Skip Groff, owner of the record store Yesterday and Today, to discuss a studio recording of their songs. The group entered Inner Ear Studios in September 1980 to record a number of songs, with owner Don Zientara engineering and Skip Groff producing. Inner Ear was merely Zientara&apos;s house; he owned a four-track recorder and some home-made gear. The mixing board was on the porch, and was connected to the basement of the house where the band played; Zientara later noted that "everything was held together with clothespins". Inner Ear was useful to The Teen Idles, as at the time there were few options available to an American independent band between recording on a boombox or at a professional studio. Zientara, a folk music enthusiast, usually engineered recordings of Celtic folk and harp music and was about fourteen years older than The Teen Idles, yet appreciated their recording zeal. He later commented: "It was them against the world, and they played music with that in mind. This music, it was &apos;Let&apos;s give it 100 percent, for a minute and a half and then drop out of sheer exhaustion, then shove it out of the way and get on to the next one. It wasn&apos;t like we were taking the time to archive this for posterity".[4] Seven tracks were recorded in total. However, the band had not thought of what to do with the tapes, and shelved them. Like The Teen Idles&apos; other material, Minor Disturbance features mainly standard hardcore punk melodies and rhythms. Many of the album&apos;s songs feature Strejcek shouting over a fast one-two hardcore beat, with MacKaye and Grindle providing short and speedy riffs. On Minor Disturbance, the band drew inspiration from local punk band Bad Brains, as well as Californian hardcore bands such as Black Flag and Germs. After deciding not to release the recordings, The Teen Idles continued to tour locally. However, by October 1980 had decided to break-up, mostly because of Grindle&apos;s disillusionment with the band. In their year of touring, they had earned a total of $600. The members gave themselves two options; either divide the money between each member or press the Inner Ear recordings. According to MacKaye, "we just said, &apos;Let&apos;s document overselves&apos;. We figured that having a record would be pretty cool". Nelson added: "I don&apos;t remember thinking it was going to be anything more than just one record". Choosing the latter, MacKaye and Nelson founded Dischord Records with Groff&apos;s help to release the recordings. Minor Disturbance, an eight-song extended play which included a live version of "Too Young to Rock", was released in December 1980. Dischord organised the pressing and printing, and ordered an initial run of a thousand 7-inch vinyls. However, the packaging of the EP had to be cut, folded and glued by hand; Nelson, Strejcek and MacKaye and friends spent many days assembling the packaging. The EP&apos;s front cover was designed by Nelson and features a photo of MacKaye&apos;s younger brother Alec&apos;s hands, crossed across his chest, with large underage Xs (which would later become a symbol of the straight edge movement). The EP&apos;s back cover includes a photograph of The Teen Idles and a number of friends and fans, outside their penultimate concert at the Chancery in Washington on October 31, 1980. In October 1984, Minor Disturbance was released as part of the Four Old Seven Inches compilation, which combined the EPs of four early Dischord bands. The Four Old Seven Inches compilation and the EP itself fell out of print during the 1980s, so Minor Disturbance was unavailable until October 1995, when the compilation was released on compact disc. 8===8 "Super-rare 1st edition of the TEEN IDLES 7" - BUT it&apos;s marked as a promo, which means the radio station wrote on the front cover with black pen ink with the station ID, date, and a short description of the style... The vinyl itself is super-clean,which is uncommon for this pressing - probably didn&apos;t get much airplay... The radio station drastically changed formats, and I scored a bunch of rare titles at the time, but like this item, they all have writing in pen on the covers... The second edition of this had Black Flag bars drawn on Henry (Garfield) Rollins hand (see pic), and included the band&apos;s mailing address..." 8===8 Welcome to the Skeleton Closet! I was a rabid music collector for 30+ years - Punk and Hardcore in the early-Eighties, Death Metal and Grunge in the late-Eighties, Industrial and Experimental in the early-Nineties, and Goa Trance and Psytrance in the late-Nineties and early-2000s… I also worked at a record company for 13 years, toured North America with numerous international acts, DJed internationally, produced festivals, and had a clothing importing company. So in this time, I’ve accumulated a lot of interesting and limited items... Family life and other life changes have made me decide to unload my collection. For the majority of the items, I have been the original owner of the item. I try to be accurate on my description and condition of the items. 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