[kj] American Hardcore documentary posted on YouTube

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Oliver,
 
As for me I grew up in that era of HC bands and saw many back in their  
heyday coming to L.A.  as Minor Threat, Black Flag, AOF,  MDC,  DOA, Die Kreuzen, 
COC, SSD, etc. The book for in my opinion  it is crap and has so many mistakes 
about back then. The movie is not too bad.  But it should have focus a bit 
more on other scenes has of Chicago, Midwest, Up  the Northern West Coast, etc. 
Too much Ian and Henry. I would have  loved to see more of Vic Bondi of AOF. 
Great front man and very wise dude!  Seeing Middle Class in it was cool. 
 
By the way John Stabb of Government Issue is a good friend of mine and  said 
Steven Blush was not a big dent on the DC scene and only managed No Trend.  
The stuff written in the book about GI is untrue. It is pretty stupid not to  
talk to John for he is full of great knowledge of the scene back then. He has  
been writing a book for some years now about GI and it has yet to see the light 
 of day. There is some really funny shit in it!
 
Now the book to read is "Going Underground (American Punk 1979-1992)'' By  
George Hurchalla who put the book out himself. Very well done and so much  
better than "American HC." Lots of info and true at that. Get it! ; )
 
 
~ LB
 
In a message dated 3/26/2007 6:34:14 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net writes:

It's  been discussed here, so: ---


Someone has posted the recent  documentary American Hardcore onto YouTube in 
10 minute segments. The 1st part  is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0LHomP0SNE


If  you're interested, I' GET IT BEFORE IT'S DELETED, like my own YouTube 
account,  which was deleted because I uploaded stuff like anarchist (and Yale  
anthropologist) David Graeber on the Charlie Rose show, a clip of the late  
anarchist Murray Bookchin, the Dead Kennedys, and some other punk bands. That  all 
got me banned. 

IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD AND SAVE THESE CLIPS I  RECOMMEND "DOWNLOAD HELPER" 
FOR FIREFOX:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

Of course this way  you do not get the extras and deleted/extended scenes on 
the DVD that do help  flesh out some underrepresented parts of the documentary.


As  mentioned before, American Hardcore doesn't have Dead Kennedys or Misfits 
or  Government Issue, all huge absences, but in less than 2 hours you cant 
please  everyone. 

Vic Bondi of Articles of Faith does a pretty good job of  being the sociol
ogist of the movement and the parts with Austin's radical  left, gay-fronted 
M.D.C. (Millions of Dead Cops/Millions of Damn Christians,  etc.) are priceless.


-Oliver







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