[kj] Clip of US punk documentary/riots

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Adam,

Holy shit, that's Assert! A friend of mine runs a website and every week 
-- sometimes every day -- he chooses as "MySpace Band of the Day." I 
remember he chose UK's Assert as his band of the week a few weeks back. 
I was surprised to find them that way, but I mostly remember their page 
because it said, in big letters: "NOTE: WE ARE A HARDCORE BAND OF THE 
PUNK KIND, NOT TH METAL KIND."

As a friend of mine once said, you can be punk without being hardcore, 
but you cannot be hardcore without being punk. Unforunately there's a 
new generation of bands that think the two are mutually exclusive, and 
that the latter involves buying Gibson black gothic guitars (some with 7 
strings, an extra low one), playing really really drop-tuned and sludgy 
like Limp Bizkit, and having ... goatees. :) (I like my fair fair share 
of sludgy metal -- Amebix, older Neurosis, Celtic Frost -- but a lot of 
System of a Down Stuff-type stuff, no.) In any event, Assert got my 
respect right then and there, when I saw that message on their page.

-Oliver


Devacor at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/17/2007 11:50:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 

> bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net writes:

>

>     they choose to profile is The Damned. Despite how, uh, "gay" (ugh

>     -- why

>     that word?) you may think The Damned are now, believe it or not,

>     mainstream America once thought punk was a pretty weird, antisocial

>     alien threat

>

> this is where it's at right here- punk riots in the vid- survived a 

> few of those in my day in DC

> Click here: YouTube - Assert - Dilute to taste 

> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ4QfFtX2ao>

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