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| Inside Out, live in Bellingham, WA, 1990 (photo by Bill Baker) |
Of the first 20 releases on Revelation Records, REV:19 remains my favorite. "No Spiritual Surrender" is a thunderbolt, the culmination of the five prior years of growth of the youth crew. I know a fair amount of folks who will take "True Till Death" or "Start Today" or "Bringing It Down" as their favs. While those all are amazing records, it's Inside Out's sole legit release that takes the pole position for me.
The ten songs here come from a live performance at KXLU on the campus of Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles from 1991. The first time I ever heard them was a truncated version of this session that a buddy put on the tail end of a tape: a dub of a dub of a bootleg dub. He was a huge Rage Against the Machine fan who knew I was into hardcore, and figured I'd enjoy these. He was right.
The band would be broken up within six months of this recording, leaving this as one of the last documents of their existence. There are two songs here ("Empty Days", and "Nowhere To Turn") that never appeared on a record. Prior to guitarist Vic Dicara leaving the band in mid-1991 to become a Hare Krishna monk, Inside Out had discussed making a second record for Ebullition. I can only assume these cuts would have appeared on that record. Instead, Zach de la Rocha would team up with Tom Morello, and the rest was history.
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