[kj] Afro-Punk & Swiz

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

You did luck out.

Here's an early gem of a clip on YouTube I found of early, Dag Nasty 
(when they were still a hardcore band) with Shawn Brown on vocals. Minor 
Threat's Brian Baker is on guitar. 1985 I'm pretty sure. It's really, 
really good, very high energy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OausepMmBbk

For some reason I always thought Shawn Brown was the coolest, most 
underrated hc singer.

-Oliver




Devacor at aol.com wrote:

>

> I lucked out living in the DC area as I actually caught the first 

> Dagnasty show ever (Shawn Brown singing)- they played a flurry of 

> shows off the bat so I saw them with Shawn singing 3-4 times.

>  there are some cuts from the first Dagnasty with smally singing that 

> I think are major classics- although I prefer shawn in the band- the 

> latter Dagnasty to me turned just awful.

> I thought Swiz to be ok but they never got me off or anything. Yeah, 

> now Shawn works as a tattoo artist at a shop that a high school friend 

> of mine owns.

>  

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