genre; punk
country; USA
wtorek, 10 lipca 2012
poniedziałek, 9 lipca 2012
Agression - Fender's Ballroom L.A. 19.4.86
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agression_(band)
Agression was an American rock band from Silver Strand Beach, Oxnard, California. Agression was one of the founding bands of the Nardcore (Oxnard, California hardcore) scene and an early proponent of the skate punk genre. The band fused skate culture with the punk scene- featuring a song about skateboarding (Intense Energy) and a Glen E. Friedman photo of Arthur Lake skating a pool on their first and most popular album, "Don't Be Mistaken".
The band was known for its fast-paced, aggressive songs such as "Slammin' at the Club", "Money Machine", "Intense Energy", "Never Alone", "Go to War", and "Locals Only".
Original members:
Vocals - Mark Hickey
Guitar - Henry Knowles
Bass - Bob Clark
Drums - Mark Abe
Early 1980s - 2000
Agression was part of the first wave of skatepunk bands to emerge from southern California in the early '80s. These groups were on the front lines of a new union between the skateboard and punk rock cultures, which were put on a path to convergence by the establishment hassling each group. The resulting music was a confluence of punk's anger and simplicity, the furious speed of hardcore, and defiantly smart-assed machismo. Emerging out of Oxnard, CA (which was such a hotbed of punk and skate bands that their sound became known as "Nardcore"), Agression consisted of the two founding members, vocalist Mark Hickey, and guitarist Henry Knowles, along with bassist Bob Clark, and drummer Mark Aber.
Before their days as punk icons, in 1979 singer Mark Hickey, guitarist Henry Knowles, and bassist Bob Clark skated for Sims. (Source, Thrasher Magazine, July 2005) In this article Clark claims to be a co-founding member of Agression, whether he was or not is a minor and arguably irrelevant issue. Although Clark was verifiably close friends with Hickey and Knowles at the time, Hickey contradicts this claim in an interview with The Hooligan magazine. (Source: The Hooligan, issue Summer 1996) Regardless, Clark was the original and most senior bassist according to the timeline of lineups and albums released with his participation. Big Bob, Mark and Henry were roommates. The unit was one of the first groups to be involved with the Better Youth Organization (BYO) – the collective started by Shawn and Mark Stern of Youth Brigade—and contributed three songs, "Intense Energy", "Dear John Letter" and "Rat Race" to Someone Got Their Head Kicked In, the label's classic 1982 compilation.
Don't Be Mistaken, their debut full length, was released on BYO in 1983, chock-full of rapid-fire skatepunk rhythms. Contributions to various Mystic Records compilations followed, with Agression's sound wavering between skatepunk and more generic heavy metal; a self-titled LP on that label appeared in 1985, as did the "official" bootleg of an Agression show at the New York club CBGB.
Agression was able to get as far as CBGB with the aid of their manager, Scott Hatch, who also managed the more established hardcore outfit Fear. As Hickey said at the time, it was difficult not to appreciate the coolness of "Agression" and "Fear" listed on one bill. Aber left the group in 1985 for a spot with Angry Samoans.
Agression went through many iterations of band members, with vocalist Mark Hickey being the only original member remaining throughout the band's career.
Pushing on, Agression relocated from Oxnard, California to a more central location in Denver, Colorado as its home base in the late 80's. Henry Knowles (guitar) left the band after a few years in Colorado, returning to California. A short while after this, bassist Bob Clark also left the band. For a short time, Agression went on hiatus as new members were sought out.
The remaining members in Colorado were Mark Hickey, and Mike Minnick, A.K.A. "Fluffy Machete" (Drums). Minnick was well known in the So-Cal punk scene as the former drummer of two seminal Nardcore bands, Ill Repute and Habeas Corpus.
To fill the large vacuum left by the loss of Henry Knowles, in 1992, Hickey permanently added his friend and locally well known guitar virtuoso Kent Taylor, and went through several fill-in bassists including "Jelly Roll" (Real name unknown), and Conrad Sear, before finally settling on bassist Adam Pittman A.K.A. "Commander Adama" as a permanent addition to the band. Sear was temporarily retained for a short period as a rhythm guitarist, and left the band soon thereafter.
With the new Colorado lineup, Agression began touring again, and recorded two albums, "Nowhere to Run" (Recorded at the Peak Lounge studio in Denver, High Five Records, 1995, Lineup: Hickey, vox, Taylor, lead guitar, Minnick, drums, Conrad Sear, rhythm guitar, Pittman, bass guitar.), and "Live at the Lair", (Same lineup, minus Sear) a very rare and never widely released live album recorded in the infamous Denver punk club, the "Lion's Lair". Where Knowles left off as the main writer of music in the band while Hickey penned the lyrics, bassist Adam Pittman picked up the responsibility after "Nowhere to Run" was released.
Agression had been flirting with a more "crossover" metal sound for many years, so after "Nowhere to Run", Pittman and Hickey tried to swing the band back into its more melodic punk heritage with the new music. (Pittman was the youngest member of the band and a fan of their oldest material. Source: KPFR radio interview, July, 1995) Several of the new songs can be heard on the "Live at the Lair" recording. While they lack the surf style of the early Agression material, the swing back to their punk roots is noticeable, in a speedier, more melodic style than the material between "Don't Be Mistaken, and "Nowhere to Run".
In 1997, longtime drummer Mike Minnick left the band to pursue other musical projects. Minnick has since made a name for himself as a drummer in the rockabilly scene, and continues his playing in several projects to this day, including the Aquasonics and Paul Galaxy and the Galactix.
With the loss of their drummer, Agression also lost its practice space and base of operation in his converted studio basement. The band continued touring temporarily with replacement drummer Brian, (last name unknown) a friend and neighbor of Hickey, making their new practice space in the six-unit converted Victorian mansion Hickey lived in at the time, known locally as the "Gaylord House", owing its moniker to the name of the street (Gaylord St.) the house sits on.
As the band struggled to adjust to the new rhythm section, a new, politically correct attitude had developed within the punk scene. This attitude caused Agression newfound trouble in several different ways.
The distinctive "bar-s" logo the band used since 1981, designed by artist Jamie Hernandez (illustrator of the comic Love and Rockets) resembling a black bar with a single lightning-bolt style S, or more accurately, the Sig, or Sowilo Germanic rune meaning "sun", or "victory" offset to the left of the bar, was misunderstood by many of the younger members of the punk scene. The logo was mistaken for a Nazi "SS" symbol, and rumors circulated that the band were racists, Nazis or white supremacists. This was compounded by Hickey's self identification as a "traditional skinhead".
Although the traditional skinhead culture was multi-racial and had its roots in Jamaican ska & reggae, the shaved head, Doc Martens and braces worn by traditional skinheads were difficult to distinguish by outsiders as a similar look had been adopted by the newer Nazi Skinheads that had made violent news and much trouble in the punk scene during the '80s and '90s.
Despite the fact that Agression's lyrics were non-political, (and even positive at times), had at one time had an African-American drummer, (John Mitchell, who recorded at least one full-length and an EP with the band in the mid-eighties) and co-founding original member Henry Knowles was of Japanese descent, the rumors persisted.
Compounding the problem, some Nazi skinheads themselves mistook Agression for a band sympathetic to their unpopular cause and showed up regularly to Agression concerts, causing problems with the fans and the venue owners. Agression was forced in many places to hire an inordinate amount of security, or, they were barred from playing altogether.
This forced Agression to play shows under the name "Nightbreed" in some places, in order to avoid the trouble that had arisen by the very problematic misunderstanding.
Agression disbanded in 1998 after the multitude of problems with booking and difficulty adjusting to the loss of Minnick as drummer caused practices and shows to become fewer and farther apart, until Hickey finally pulled the plug in June 1998. (Unofficially, Hickey Taylor and Pittman never formally called it "quits", but the band never re-emerged after that summer.)
Vocalist Mark Hickey continued playing in his side project, "Hickey Blues", a blues band that included many members of the Agression lineup. Hickey was an accomplished harmonica player, and Agression fans can hear a bit of his harmonica used on the 1995 Agression album "Nowhere to Run", on the songs "Spinning Terror", and the revised version of the classic Agression hit, "Money Machine".
Guitarist Kent Taylor went on to form a local punk band called "Praise God and Pass the Ammunition", and continues his playing in various projects, including as a studio guitarist.
Bassist Adam Pittman A.K.A. "Commander Adama" went on to form the band "Negative Man" which enjoyed moderate success in the international punk scene for its three year span. Many songs on the self-titled first album, "Negative Man" (CD, AMP Records 1999, 2005) were written while Pittman was with Agression, and were intended as Agression songs. (In particular the Negative Nan songs "Runaway", and "Fun and Games" can be heard on Agression's "Live at the Lair" with the original lyrics penned by Hickey as "Happy Dope" and "When")
2000 onwards
In early 2000, the band reformed in San Jose, California, with Henry Knowles (guitar), Rob Thacker (bass), Ryan Fassler (drums), and Drew (vocals). This line-up continued through many shows with bands like Dead Kennedys, DI, Jim Jones Brigade, and Pitch Black. This incarnation of the band continued until the summer of 2001.
The new millennium brought about the unfortunate deaths of two of its original, and founding members: Mark Hickey in 2000, due to acute liver failure, and Henry Knowles lost to leukemia in 2002.
In mid-2002, a "Henry Knowles Memorial Show" took place at Skatelab, in Simi Valley, California, featuring the "Nardcore All-Stars" (who did an all-Agression song set list), Rejected Society, The Missing 23rd, Dr. Know and Ill Repute, among others.
To this day, many bands are still highly influenced by the sound of Agression. The high-energy, surf guitar influenced sound and the distinctive voice of vocalist Mark Hickey set them apart from the rest of their contemporaries with their unique sound and attitude.
Dr. Strange records has released a tribute to Agression titled Taking Out A Little Agression featuring many of their contemporaries along with modern bands covering Agression songs.
In October 2006, several former members of Agression played the Spike Fest in Long Beach. This lineup consisted of Big Bob Clark, Mark Aber, Rob Thacker (who played with Henry's lineup), Dave Haro, and JellyRoll for a few songs. This continued in November for two shows in Northern California.
From June 14–17, 2007, the same lineup minus JellyRoll performed in Northern California in a four-day tour to celebrate the release of the Agression tribute compilation. This release is out on Dr. Strange Records on CD and vinyl, and was expected to be available in stores worldwide on July 24, 2007. This compilation is dedicated to all those who have ever played in Agression along the years. Track # 28 is a song called "What Did I Do", which was written and recorded by Henry Knowles a couple years before he died.
Most Recently Aggression played at Punk Rock Picnic 2011 on Saturday, April 9, 2011.
Discography
Better Youth Organization Presents - Someone Got Their Head Kicked In, Compilation LP (BYO, 1982)
Don't Be Mistaken, LP (BYO 1983)
Copulation - The Sound of Hollywood, Compilation LP (Mystic, 1984)
Nardcore, Compilation LP (Mystic, 1984)
Agression Bootleg LP, LP (Mystic/Bootleg 1985)
Agression, LP (Mystic 1985)
Live Underground Railroad, 7" (Mystic 1986)
Best of Agression, CD (Mystic 1995)
Nowhere to Run, CD (High Five Records 1995)
Live at the Lair, CD (High Five Records 1996)
Full Circle, CD (Cleopatra Records 2003)
Locals Only: Live, CD (Mystic 2005)
niedziela, 8 lipca 2012
Spécial Bérurier Noir
Spécial Bérurier Noir przez ska-p03
Specjalny reportaż o legendzie z Francji (wywiad, klipy oraz fest)
sobota, 7 lipca 2012
Agnostic Front - CBGB's, NYC 27.04.86
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Agnostic Front – amerykańska grupa muzyczna grająca hardcore punk oraz crossover thrash.
Historia
Została założona w 1982 roku w Nowym Jorku przez Vinniego Stigmę (gitara) i Rogera Mireta. Do oryginalnego składu w 1982 roku dołączyli Ray Barbieri (perkusja), późniejszy lider grupy Warzone i Adam Moochie (bas). Grupa w swej twórczości łączyła m.in. stylistykę oi! i hardcore. W późniejszym czasie również oscylowała wokół thrash metalu. Ich debiutancka EP-ka United Blood ujrzała światło dzienne w 1983 roku. Płytą, która wyniosła Agnostic Front na przód amerykańskiej sceny hardcore skupionej wokół słynnego CBGB's była Victim In Pain (1984). Za bębnami zasiadł wtedy Dave Jones zastępując Barbieriego. AF dali sporo koncertów m.in. z takimi grupami jak The Cro-Mags i Murphy's Law.
Wydany w 1986 roku album Cause For Alarm był produkcją, którą trudno było ukończyć ze względu na stałe zmiany składu i problemy osobiste. Wydany w Combat Records Cause For Alarm zawierał thrashmetalowe wpływy, kreując nowy gatunek nazywany crossover. Z nowym składem w 1987 roku nagrali kolejny album Liberty And Justice. Scena hardcore przeżywała wtedy drobny kryzys, dlatego na płycie usłyszeć można punkowe dźwięki z wkrętami thrashowymi i metalowymi gitarowymi solówkami. Niedługo później Miret został aresztowany za posiadanie i zażywanie narkotyków. W więzieniu pisał nowe kawałki podczas gdy Stigma z resztą zespołu odbył pierwszy koncertowy tour po Europie. Texty napisane przez Mireta zasiliły płytę One Voice (1992), przy nagrywaniu której udział wzięli członkowie zespołów Madball i Sick of It All.
Ostatni koncert przed pierwszym 4 letnim zawieszeniem działalności grupy miał miejsce w CBGB's w 1993 roku i nazywał się Last Warning. Został potem wydany razem z pierwszą, odświeżoną EP-ką United Blood. Vinnie Stigma stwierdził, że nie podobało mu Last Warning i że nie cierpi tego albumu.
W 1997 roku muzycy Agnostic Front za sprawą Stigmy i Mireta wrócili do grania. Zaczęli nagrywać dla Epitaph Records (gdzie nagrywa m.in Bad Religion). Za bębnami usiadł Jim Colletti, a Rob Kabula grał na gitarze basowej. W tym składzie nagrali album Someting's Gotta Give z utworem "Gotta Go", który stał się dla wielu hymnem. W Wielkiej Brytanii płyta wyszła pod tytułem "Today, Tomorrow, Forever". W 1999 roku wyszła Riot, Riot, Upstart.
W 2001 wyszła kolejna płyta Dead Yuppies. W 2002 roku Miret pracował nad solowym projektem "Roger Miret And The Disasters", będącym typową grupą punk/oi!.
Ostatnimi dwoma albumami, niezbyt dobrze przyjętymi przez słuchaczy, były Another Voice (2005) oraz wydany w 2006 double DVD/CD pack Live In CBGB's zarejestrowany 14 kamerami koncert w stylu "powrotu do korzeni". Grupa wydając ten koncert starała się uratować podupadające CBGB's.
piątek, 6 lipca 2012
7 Seconds - Flipside Video
czwartek, 5 lipca 2012
Bérurier Noir - Festival Astropolis 06-08-2005 - Brest 2-2
środa, 4 lipca 2012
Ludwig von 88 - @ Lausanne 1987
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_88
Ludwig von 88 is a French punk rock and alternative rock band mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s, and which gained an important success in the underground scene of its country. The band has not released any new material since 2001, but has not disbanded and is thus officially still active. Their music is quite similar to that of influent French punks Bérurier Noir: two-fingered and distorted guitar chords and drum machine as a drummer. Their lyrics evolved along their career from nonsensical and often juvenile humour to something more serious and sometimes social and political.
The band had different line-ups, among which the most famous from the late 80’s featured Karim Berrouka on vocals, Nobru (real name Bruno Garcia, his new pseudonym is Sergent Garcia) on guitars, Laurent and then Charlu on bass, and Jean-Mi on programming.
They made their reputation through endless and delirious shows performed by disguised musicians. Among their notable stage clothing: cycling jerseys, diving suits, Mexican ponchos and various funny headgear.
Some of their songs are satires on stars like Louison Bobet, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Maria Callas, Jacques Chirac, Jodie Foster or deal with more serious topics like war: "Libannais raides", "Hiroshima"; drugs: "Le Manège enchanté", "Kaliman"; and misery: "LSD for Ethiopie", "In the Ghettos" — always with irony.
wtorek, 3 lipca 2012
J.M.K.E. - Live at Pogo Paul's Birthday Party 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.M.K.E
J.M.K.E. is an Estonian punk rock band, which formed in Tallinn on January 18, 1986.
Biography
The original singer, Mati, left the band soon afterwards, leaving Venno on drums, Tarvo on bass, and Villu Tamme on vocals and guitar, sometimes working together with guest singers (with Tõnu Trubetsky from Vennaskond playing under the name "Vürst Trubetsky & J.M.K.E."). For the first three years they mainly played concerts in Estonia, with a few also in Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. Later the band has toured Europe several times.
J.M.K.E. are known for their lyrics, which are at the same time angry and funny, ironic and melancholic, full of care yet cynical, and also they are known because of their peculiar melodic yet hardcore punk rock sound. They became one of the more popular rock outfits in Estonia, with the likes of Vennaskond, and Ultima Thule. In 1987 Villu wrote "Tere Perestroika", initially singing it alone with guitar. Later the band made numerous different versions of the song. It became a big hit because of its humorous topicality (Perestroika) and in 1988 won a song contest on a popular Estonian TV show. The prize was a vacation in Europe, but it never arrived. In 1988 came the first line-up change – Tarvo skipped from J.M.K.E. to the band Röövel Ööbik and a new bass player, Lembit, joined the band.
In 1989 the newly created Finnish record label Stupido Twins, with the aim of publishing some Estonian bands. J.M.K.E.'s "Tere Perestroika" was release # 001. The winds of change in the Soviet Union had already blown some chains away, and so J.M.K.E. were able to travel abroad for the first time in April 1989, playing their first concert in Finland to middle-aged communists at the Leftist Forum in Helsinki. Later that autumn they recorded for Stupido Twins their first LP, "Külmale Maale" (To the Cold Country), which was the first Estonian rock record made abroad. Maximum Rock'n'Roll called it "absolutely excellent". At the end of 1989 Venno left the band declaring that J.M.K.E. had “Become too commercial for me”, and Ardo took his place.
The band toured Estonia, the Nordic countries, and Germany, made a couple of EPs, and only by 1993 started to record a new album, "Gringode Kultuur" (Culture of Gringos). Meanwhile Estonia had regained its independence and J.M.K.E. couldn't continue with their anti-Soviet songs (what was the point?), so they found their new "enemy" in the invading "burger-culture", increasing poverty, and other early-capitalistic distresses. Lembit left the band in 1994 and was replaced by Sten. J.M.K.E. got also a new drummer, Andres.
Their third album, "Sputniks in Ресторан"("Sputniks at Restaurant") (1995), is an eclectic collection of popular Russian songs, sung in high energy Russian. The cover versions include the national anthem of czarist Russia, old revolutionary marches, soldiers' songs from WW2, and melodies from popular cartoons.
In January 1996 J.M.K.E. celebrated their 10th birthday with the longest lasting concert of their history presenting on stage almost all persons who had ever played with the band, permanently or temporarily, and with a cassette-only-release, "Rumal Nali" (Silly Joke, on Fucking Cunt Records). This contained old D.I.Y. recordings mainly from 1986 and 1987. J.M.K.E. didn't make their first "tidy" studio recording until 1989 in Finland although by that stage they had enough songs for three or four albums. It was just impossible to release punk rock records under the vigilant glance of sickle and hammer.
J.M.K.E. have gradually abandoned their directly political slogans and now tell more varied stories than before. Their fifth album, "Jäneste Invasioon" (Invasion of Rabbits, 1996), is a good example of their present character. Some consider it to be J.M.K.E.'s best product since "Külmale Maale".
In 2000, after 4 years of silence, the album "Õhtumaa viimased tunnid" was released. By then female back-up singers Tirts and Promille joined the band.
In 2006 J.M.K.E. released another album. This one for their 20th birthday, called "Mälestusi Eesti NSV-st"("A Memoir Of The Estonian SSR"). This includes songs that were recorded in a professional studio for the first time, for example "Ma ei saa sust aru", "Rumal nali", "Veri mullas" and many more.
Immortal (Nor) - The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh - Live at Wacken Open Air 2007
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Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1990 by current frontman/guitarist Abbath Doom Occulta (Olve Eikemo) and former guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta (Harald Nævdal). The pair worked with various drummers (including Grim, Armagedda and Hellhammer) for their first three albums and were later joined by current drummer Horgh (Reidar Horghagen) in 1996.
1. Intro
2. The Sun No Longer Rises 05:05
3. Withstand the Fall of Time 08:59
4. Sons of Northern Darkness 04:48
5. Tyrants 07:32
6. One by One 05:25
7. Wrath From Above 05:36
8. Unholy Forces of Evil 06:56
9. Unsilent Storms in the North Abyss 03:12
10. At the Heart of Winter 08:10
11. Battles in the North 05:22
12. Blashyrk (Mighty Ravendark) 06:15
poniedziałek, 2 lipca 2012
Good Riddance - live at the Bizarre Festival @ Butzweiler Hof, Köln 22.08.1999
Good Riddance (sometimes abbreviated GR) is a punk rock band from Santa Cruz, California. They released seven full-length studio albums on Fat Wreck Chords, and their final album was a live recording of their farewell concert in 2007. Led by vocalist Russ Rankin, the band's longtime lineup included guitarist Luke Pabich, bassist Chuck Platt, and drummer Sean "SC" Sellers. Their sound was influenced by the hardcore punk scene and the band was known for their combination of fast punk with catchy melodies. Lyrical themes vary from political protests and critical analyses of American society to personal struggles and alienation. The band reunited in February 2012 to play some live shows.
niedziela, 1 lipca 2012
Dvajzdeka Špeka - @ Mala Dvorana Jedinstvo, Zagreb (December 11th, 2010)
Młodzieńczy, prosty punk rock z trzema dziewczynami i chłopcem na bębnach. (Chorwacja)
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