I smoked a joint with HR in Pittsburgh back in 89, he then went on stage and did a sick back flip.Bad Brains were awesome back then. Beat that!! Fugazi in DC with Nation of Ulysses doing their first gig was awesome too!! Also their gig with Swiz was insane at DC Space!! I got to see Heresy loads of times and they ruled here in England. xxx
I was at a Crucifucks show and onstage about to do a stage dive, then the singer barfed and I slipped in it. I bailed hard. Total rite of passage for me!
Can't believe i haven't noticed this thread before... Unbroken Conniption Coalesce Floorpunch Atari ...
Refused will always be the number one for me. They were an amazing band and one of the few hardcore bands I will still listen to on a regular basis. SxE: American Nightmare, when they became Give Up The Ghost, they had taken that 3 year hiatus and were just never the same, but the EP's and the one LP they had were amazing. I'll probably get ripped for that, but I was a late bloomer in music and didn't really get into hardcore until I was 22. And now it all sounds like bad metalcore.
AN were awesome (easily top 5 bands of the 00's) but were never an edge band. their last LP is still amazing as well. they toured australia at the very start of '04 when they were GUTG just before they called it quits and fucking sucked tho.
Whoops! Oh well, yeah, I saw them right before they stopped being American Nightmare, and that was it. I liked Some Girls, but I'm one of the twenty people in Kentucky that are really into the whole Spazcore/Screamo/Noisecore/etc etc whatever the hell you want to call it.
AN were decent.. i love watching the TYF last show video where a shirtless Wes is standing on stage with his shaved head. from that to what he looks like now is crazy
Nice thread, especially for the anecdotes! A few alltime faves of mine: Infest GB 7 Seconds Black Flag Merel (most intense show I've ever been lucky to attend - the singer kept spazzing out so drastically that he basically spent most of the show tripping and/or falling headfirst off the stage, all the while cringing and screaming like a madman. Beautiful.) Integrity Spazz Mohinder Orchid early Some Girls and of course the almighty SWARRRM. Their first album kills everything. EVERY-FUCKIN-THING.
How about the band that started EMO RITES OF SPRING Any body remember the mid 80's Dag Nasty Embrace Soulside
this thread got resurrected again?? WTF? its been like 8 months.. Not that im complaining... American Nightmare- as for this band. Before the rest of the world caught up. They were killer live. destroyed. Then the shows just got too big to enjoy for myself personally. A good friend of mine played drums for them. He always told me their work ethic of practicing was like the ones you read/head about. They practiced for 8 hours a day for days straight. I can always appreciated a band more when I know they do things like that. mid 80s- dc. Most under appreciated band and one who kills Rites of spring RAIN. most people know them from the STATE OF THE UNION comp of that era. peterbilt(guy) recently released the impossible to find 12" on cd. Worth picking up. We have some songs on bannedindc.com BURN- one of my all time favorite bands. Really under appreciated as far as that era of rev. As far as members go its pretty much an all star group. Especially when Dicara was in the band. Burn in philly in 98 could have been one of the best shows ive ever seen. tales of shatou has the hardest mosh parts ever. Ill say this one more time. they never put out anything bad. ever. Even their reunion album. how many bands can say that? maybe one.... INFEST!
Agnostic Front Cro Mags Crumbsuckers G.B.H. Buzzoven DRI Suicidal Tendencies S.O.D. Avail Bold Septic Death...!!!
Agnostic Front, Cro Mags - NYHC had a serious case of Napoleon Complex, how else could they cope with kids from suburban Orange County outdoing big bad NYC in every possible way. I remember that Sick of It All video where they were taking credit for all this shit that Cali started. WHEAK! G.B.H. - Like many English punk bands they had better album art than actual music (I'm looking at YOU Crass!) DRI - They invented crossover... the 2nd worst thing to happen to hardcore besides Gilman & New Method S.O.D. - I take it back these guys rocked... Avail - Whoops! Sorry I was thinking of ALL, never heard of these kids. I appreciate the sentiment tho sumatra, as long as im pissing off punk n00bs I'm happy EDIT: To clarify, I stopped going to hardcore shows in 85, hence the cranky old manisms
If I'm not mistaken Crossover is what started the kids onto that girly screamo shit... Give me that old timey California Hardcore any day. Los Olvidados The Dicks (via TX) Adolescents Social Unrest (Kretin only pls) Fang (first 2 only pls) Crucifix Aggression Sin34 the list could go on... but i'll end it here as its all a matter of opinion
Hahahahaha... hardcore fucking sucks period...!!! nothing like a bunch of sweaty no shirt wearing dudes rubbing up against one another in the stinky white power pit... same goes for the long hair metalhead satan worshipping dildo's... same goes for the exctasy dropping raver heads on the dance floor... honky tonk cowboys and all the underage emo scene kids... hip hop and soul is where it's at yo'...!!! Beyonce & Jay Z got everything locked down...!!! just throw yer' hands in the air and wave em' round like you "JUST DON'T CARE"...!!!
