Quicksand‘s iconic, influential debut album Slip turned 30 last year, and the band celebrated with a reissue on Iodine Recordings, a tour, and a panel discussion about the album at NYC’s Generation Records on November 5, 2023. The 75-minute discussion featured Quicksand leader Walter Schreifels, writer/musician Norman Brannon (Texas Is The Reason, Anti-Matter, etc), photographer John Mockus, illustrator Melinda Beck, Iodine Recordings founder Casey Horrigan, and host/emcee Tom Bejgrowicz.
Hate5six’s Sunny Singh filmed the entire panel, and now you can watch the full discussion from the comfort of your own home–the video premieres in this post.
Casey Horrigan says:
The team at Iodine Recordings spent almost two years putting together the 30th anniversary edition of Quicksand’s iconic 1993 album Slip. We wanted to celebrate this album every way we could and the event at Generation Records was an amazing way to wrap up everyone’s hard work, and to pay homage to this beloved record. It was really amazing to see Walter Schrerifels tell stories about writing and recording Slip, some of which many of us had never heard before. Photographer John Mockus, illustrator Melinda Beck, and Norman Brannon all helped paint the picture of what the scene looked like in 1993, and how Quicksand helped change the landscape for hardcore forever. It was an honor to sit on the stage with all of them and be a part of the preservation of a landmark record.
Tom Bejgrowicz adds:
With the herculean effort that went into Slip‘s 30th anniversary, combined with the band playing the album on tour, it seemed only fitting that some of us should gather in the band’s hometown of New York City at Generation Records and talk about the nuances of the album, the time in which the band and the songs were born, and expand upon the visual story. The panel I chose checked all the boxes: Walter represented the band, John captured the moments on film, Melinda’s artistic vision is forever connected to Quicksand, Norm’s frame-of-reference is second to none, and Casey had the vision to mark the anniversary in the most celebratory of ways. To put it lightly, it was a pleasure and a privilege it was to emcee the afternoon. Having Sunny and Hate5Six document that day to share with those who couldn’t be there was the icing on the cake.
Walter adds, “It was so much fun to reminisce about Slip with this awesome panel of friends who were there at the time, and helped to make it such a special album for us.”
Watch the full panel discussion here and check out some more pics from the event below…
