This Was The Scene Podcast

Welcome everyone to This Was The Scene, the podcast that takes a look back at the late 90s / early 2000 Nj Jersey Punk scene, I am your host, Mike Doyle. From 98-2001 My weekends were as follows: go to a show to see local bands play or play said shows with my band Lanemeyer. Afterwords I would go to diners or random parking lots, smoke cigarettes and talk about life with friends I made from these shows. Thanks to show promoters, like Heath Miller, anyone in the scene had something to do pretty much every weekend. Heath and a ton of other promoters saw that they could be the ones to organize events where we could all come together and create a ruckus.  In this interview we talk about:   How some bands would do stupid shit Kids that would just attend shows in certain areas The equipment he started out with How he always made sure to pay people what they were promised even if the show sucks How bands would never turn down their amps so people could hear the vocals How it’s sketchy for bands to stay and random p