O.C.Weakly??? By Scott Wulfestieg

It was brought to our attention that the O.C. Weekly had done a horrible review of a very good show. The show in question was the U.S. bombs, the pushers, damnation, and f-minus @ the tiki bar.

Now I’ll be the first to person to say that O.C.weekly has some of the best writers in town. They spray to all fields, covering a wide variety interests. But the street credibility of their music section is seriously lacking. To be honest it’s a joke. Even though the magazine dedicates 20 to 25 pages for advertisements and music listings. And the fact they probably rake in about 20,000 to 30,000 dollars a month in music ads you’d think they could afford a decent writer or two. Hell I’d write for them for a mere 5,000 a month.

But alas the O.C. weekly has but one writer to cover the entire live music scene in O.C. and L.A. And I really wonder if the writer even showed up for this one. The first 5 paragraphs had nothing to do with the show at all. The show was sellout, and the entire orange county crowd was there. But the O.C.Weekly writer was to busy watching the people and not the show. They talked about the crowd reaching the osteoporosis age; they talked of near fights in the bathroom. And about the only thing they did speak about that had some bearing on what was going on that night. Was what local legend Duane peters was wearing at the show that night. Now that’s music journalism! To be quite honest there was only two to three sentences about the bombs set, the rest was filler.

In our Caught In The Web section we have a review of the same show, that O.C. Weekly so poorly reviewed.

You be the judge.