Sherburt

10/25/2026

Listen. I am into signs. I have been driving for almost 30 years. I have never in my life seen one of these.

I told Jenny I was going with her. Then I changed my mind. Then I thought of my kids walking out of the house and me not being in the car. And right before she left I changed my mind back to I was going to get them. I have seen so many signs. You have no idea.

This is so nuts to me... I thought the exploding sunset was the sign. I understand coincidences but it's getting out of control. 😭😭😭

10/25/2026

Happy Birthday Kent Jamieson thanks for still taking care of me. And I'm so glad we got to work together a few weeks ago. Thanks for always letting me come get in your way. Hope ya find some beef jerky that doesn't stink up the place like my garbage jerky. But also for being my favorite Canadian time.

🖤😂👊

10/25/2026

This was the moment I knew I was quitting drinking. This kid was like 6 months dry and kinda going through it. And he didn't ask Smelly about NOFX or drums or being what Courtney Love once said "The worst he**in ju**ie I have ever fu***ng seen." Nah he asked him about being sober and how long ago he got off the sauce and drugs, but also what has been the thing that keeps him going when he's hurting to not go back... And the guy who usually walks up to me and says "hey what's up f**k face?!" Stopped and turned into Erik Sandin. There's a difference between Smelly and Erik. And this was my first real time getting to experience it. It was my bday weekend in Brooklyn. And I was getting all sorts of things given to me. I had a good time alright. So much of a good time that the only time chavez13 ever asked me if I was okay drinking more, was the last night, my bday at the Paramount. I think I did 8 shots in the 2 hour set. I didn't have time to get stoned. Didn't have time to sit. Didn't have time to do s**t but shoot and shots. I was feeling good. But then I cried into my pastrami sandwich in front of my baby cousins afterwards in a crowded restaurant. I was so happy to be with them, and I finally felt like I was doing something my family could be proud of me for. And I was sitting there fu***ng smashed. 3 months later I was done. Off the sauce. Smelly still makes fun of me for being what I have been dubbed "NOFXs most stoned photographer". But he also commends me for just realizing what my version of sobriety is. Whatever keeps me here the longest.

It wasn't just him. Kent and Jon were very open to listening to me about my issues and s**t with everything. Most of it is trauma and PTSD from a very abusive father. And the other is just compounded grief from decades of loss and tragedy. All these people have a decade+ sober. Smelly has 34 years sober.

I just worry about my friends who still drink hard. And I want you to know I love you and I'm there for you and if you ever need me I'm here. But I'm also gonna be honest with you. I hate that people say you can't make people change. Bull s**t. Fu***ng bull s**t. You can help by being there.

Do that.

🖤🫂

10/24/2026

Hi, I'm the only one left.

Tell your friends. 💔

I love all of you. Please don't let them leave without telling them. 🙏

10/23/2026

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10/23/2026

Needed this night this week. Got the text he was gone during Killing Pace. Got murked during 100 Demons and Pain Of Truth. Ended up going non verbal for the first time from the message and not w**d in like a decade.

Absolutely brutal week. Worst week of my life. But Spencer kidnapped me the same way my dude Chris did 25 years ago. But instead of a rave in Cincinnati. Spencer took me to Screenprinting & Embroidery so I could get some catharsis and a fu***ng reminder of why I am actually still alive and not with my dudes in Valhalla.

This was the best part of the week for sure. Got the s**t kicked out of me. And oh... The last slide is the picture that got taken as the camera went flying out of my hands. Now does my wrist strap make more sense? Ok cool.

Sheesh. Wild.

I'm sorry if I seemed short or aloof. Y'all get it. I lost my best friend of 27 years this week suddenly and out of nowhere. Thankfully I have spaces in this culture to let steam out and be a ma*****st and let kids and 25 year olds kick the s**t out of me. They beat me like Phil Margera on the toilet. And I truly needed it. Look, I don't need a beating at every show but this one I did. But also just too many hugs got me wanting to shut down. I need to fully breakdown. Do the funeral. Fall apart. And begin to piece myself back together.

I'm just so glad this happened because I was so fu***ng reluctant to even get off my floor. That to me is what hardcore is. It's not everyone. Not everyone wants to pick a grown man baby crying on the floor up... But f**k yeah to those who understand this s**t.

I don't wish it for anyone. Chris is the biggest loss of my life. I have lost well over 100 people in my life. And this is worse than all of them rolled into one.

I'm hyper emotional and that rubs people the wrong way. But Chris told me a few years ago...

"f**k everyone who doesn't listen to you. F**k em. They don't get it and that's on them. Let em just look at your pictures and make you a fu***ng novelty. But you're the real deal. Believe in yourself. And stop giving a s**t"

RIP Chris.

Pain Of Truth for TIED DOWN DETROIT
edgemenshows Screenprinting & Embroidery
The Crofoot CURTIS DALTON

10/22/2026

I didn't know either of them a little over 3 years ago. Now they're always looking out for me. I absolutely love this part of my life even though the most tragic of times is literally this current moment, I'm still in the best place I've been ever.

Not everyone in the industry or the underground is there for you because of who you are. There's a lot of bull s**t out here. It's the good ones that keep us coming back. 43 and still going to hardcore shows.

The kids got me until I just can't do this anymore. They need to know they can do it. And they can do it as long as they want to. And not just photos. I mean just going to shows. Or making music. Or throwing shows. Or making zines. Whatever it is that contributes to pushing our culture forward.

Dedication to the music. Loyalty to your creativity. Honor those who come before you. Leave the door open for those coming up behind you.

The future in Detroit music just makes me have hope and it's not all the incredible music coming out of here across almost every genre... It's just the people. A loving community who beats the ever living s**t out of each other weekly.

I have never been more proud of the amount of Unity I feel. I could be completely naive to backroom s**t and stuff that doesn't concern me or drama or whatever. But that's my feelings and my perspective.

Thanks Spencer for getting me out of the house during the worst day of my life. Thanks Zayde for always taking care of me. I'm a lucky dude to be UNC. Thanks to the TIED DOWN DETROIT crew for always looking out. 🙏👊

More stuff is coming gimme a lil bit.

Spencer x Zayde Wagner

10/21/2026

Day 1 without him.

He almost made it to our first wedding anniversary. So fu***ng close.

I'm just so broken. And I just feel so fu***ng bad for everyone.

Imagine your best friend. The 1. Best friend. All-time. Benchmark.

Now imagine that person was that to everyone they met.

Now they're just gone. Out of nowhere. No goodbye.

Just. Fu***ng. Gone.

No reason at all to take him from us.

Such a cruel fu***ng world this.

That is where me and all my friends from high school and my hometown and most of Detroit Electronic Music is at today.

I love you so much. This is devastating.

Thanks for being my best friend. I don't give a f**k if people think I'm corny or being weird or it's too fu***ng sentimental for them. F**k them. F**k all of em. You were the best part of this life for fu***ng decades dude. Thanks for making sure I wasn't alone before you left. I have more people who care about me and my family and him than ever.

There's no fu***ng way I could do this by myself in some s**tty fu***ng empty apartment Downriver. I love you so much.

This is the worst I have ever felt in my life.

Put aside the bulls**t. Tell your friends. I don't have to worry about that with Chris. We both knew how much we meant to each other. There was never any doubt ever.

But that's because I f**ked it up so many times before and let people go while still being pi**ed about some stupid fu***ng trivial thing in retrospect.

I don't regret much. But most of it has to do with not patching s**t up before someone leaves. Don't make the same mistakes I've made. Tell them you're fu***ng mad because you give a f**k. Not because you hate them or don't want to be their friend.

Just be honest. Trust UNC on this one. Or GRAMPS or whatever. I will not steer you in the wrong direction on this one. 🙏

Rest In Peace Chris

This is the only song that made sense to me. Thanks Touché Amoré

💔

10/21/2026

Love this one so much. Tripod. I met them in video productions class as a junior at Carlson High School in Gibraltar. 1999. Everybody called me "Slipknot Kid" lol.

Steve used to leave the auto shop and come to video and that's how I met him. Chris every day tried to get me to smoke w**d with him after school. I never did. Until I was a senior and he was out lol. Lame-o!

I find it funny Steve was in the VP class the year prior that got us all banned from being able to check out a camera and then go get "footage" off campus.

I don't think they understood what they did to Ms. Hull by not giving her a break of letting some of us leave every day, way more strenuous than they thought keeping us all couped up in there. Sorry for threatening to p**s in the sink in class Jackie. You didn't deserve that. But also, I didn't actually end up doing it anyway. I could've! But I didn't. 🤷

Steve reminded me that he worked on my first car for like 3 months. When I got it back it was nothing but stems and seeds all over the jeep. Lol. These fu***ng burnouts were smoking in the auto shop in school in my jeep when Ezell would leave to probably go smoke a cigarette in his car or some s**t.

Carlson was such an insane school. Most of those turkeys only had that. I actually went to a "good" school while in Illinois before Dad retired from the military and we came back to his home town when I was like 15. Carlson was not a good school at all. It was a Juvenile Detention Center with a bunch of syllabuses. I still feel that way anytime I'm down there and I drive by it. It looks like a jail man. It just does.

I love this photo. Thank you Janelle Lopez-Santacruz | Detroit Photographer for getting this perfect shot for Steve and I to have. And for all the friends of the tripod too. This was at my wedding. I can't believe he's not gonna be here to tell us happy 1st anniversary. This is so surreal...

We used to get so smashed and at the end of the night listen to "Adieu" and scream cry this song. So corny.

So what.

Goodbye...

I'll leave you with a funny bit. JVS and us one night...

JVS: "3 big dicks with big dicks..."

Me: "Hey! That's not why we call ourselves that."

Chris: "But it is now!"

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

10/20/2026

Christopher Michael Steffen I love you with all my heart.

Rest Easy