[kj] Clip of US punk documentary/riots

[Alexander Smith]

Again -- LABELS, LABELS, LABELS, LABELS, LABELS.



Alex in NYC


On Feb 19, 2007, at 7:21 AM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:


> 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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