[kj] American Hardcore documentary posted on YouTube

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I have the the disadvantage of not having read Stephen Blush's book, 
however I do absolutely love No Trend, as well as United Mutation, who 
from what I understand were two of the outcast sort of punky or even 
no-wave-ish bands of the DC scene that did not click witht he GeorgeTown 
Punks and the Dischord clique. "Hanging out at Georgetown...being punk 
at Roy Rogers..." -- love that song, like Flipper or The Swans or 
something to me.

I also like Vic Bondi a lot, as well. I do have _Banned in DC_, which 
seems to me to be a good book (hey, it has pics of No Trend, albeit 
barely). I have yet to read _Dance of Days_, also about the DC HC scene 
fromt he 80s from what I understand.  _American Hardcore_  (the movie) 
won't please everyone. Everyone has a favorite band or scene from that 
era that they feel is underrepresented or under appreciated. The no-wave 
side of bands like United Mutation, No Trend or Dallas's own very cool 
Stickmen with Rayguns (w/ Texas punk legend Bobby Soxx), who played a 
similar style to No Trend, aren't mentioned at all. So, heck yeah, it 
could have been better. Why so many punk bands from Austin, TX, were 
fronted by fronted by gay men is never gone into, too. (MDC, Big Boys, 
Dicks, etc.) You could really do a documentary on each and every band 
that was briefly featured here, let alone the ones that weren't 
mentioned. A whole bookshelf of documentaries, scene by scene or band by 
band.

-Oliver


LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:

> 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

>     sociologist 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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