It’s been 20 years since a band called The Go Team hand stamped 7”s and cassette tapes and toured the US.
Tobi Vail was the stuff of rock mythology. Between founding The Go Team, Bikini Kill, and guest rocking in one of your favorite bands, Nation of Ulysses. She also penned some influential zines (before there was blogging there were photocopy machines.)
Back then it sometimes took years to find out about a record, let alone hear about something that was going on in a town called Olympia, especially when you lived all the way on the opposite side of a continent. But now, now we have the internet. You can google her tour blog from ‘89 when she toured in a band that most of the world never heard of and mistakes for some other band almost named the same thing.
I don’t mean to romanticize the past. I just think some awesome things happened 20 years ago and it’s nice to not forget them because for a almost a decade, I had forgotten all about it.
