[kj] American Hardcore documentary posted on YouTube

[LONESTYLE at aol.com]

I have it too but have not listened to it yet. Yeah, I can understand they  
put on shows there and what not. I just think the book losses itself with  all 
that and the Riot Grrl stuff. More interested in the 80's part. Do not like  
many Dischord bands nowadays for a lot seem to lack the punk I like.
 
Iron Cross were ok. I loved Void though! 
 
I do not like The Evens too. Quite boring. Thanks for the Embrace vid. I  
actually saw it awhile back. Great band! You should check out some other DC  
bands as Swiz and Bloodbats. Great stuff. Also Los Vampiros and Christ on a  
Crutch too.
 
Cheers,
 
~ LB
 
In a message dated 3/26/2007 6:37:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net writes:

I have  United Mutation's complete discography CD and they vary styles 
quite a bit  over the course of it. But, yeah, some is of the growly 
voiced, almost  Norwegian black metal sound, very ahead of its time 
really -- but some of  it is very slow and creepy, maybe like Septic 
Death on acid. A really  weird band.

I guess Positive Force was included in _Dance of Days_  because Mark 
Andresen started it up as a way to bridge the activism of  hardcore into 
political stuff -- protesting at the South African embassy  against 
apartheid in that era and then putting on those benefit shows for  the 
free clinics in the DC area and the like. Riot Grrl I can see being  
included because Bikini Kill actually moved from Olympia Washington in  
1991 or 1992 to live with the Nation of Ulysses in DC, sort of their  
boyfriends and also a local aggressive DC punk band as you prob.  know  
(at least their first LP was). And since Ian MacKaye of Minor  
Threat/Dischord/Fugazi produced the first few Bikini Kill EPs in  
Washington, DC -- or at least their 6 song 12 incher -- while he was  
producing Nation of Ulysses' _13 Point Program to Destroy America_, it  
all fits. Arguably that 1st Nation of Ulysses LP (_13 Point Program...)  
was the last great aggressive punk release on Dischord, if you don't  
count Fugazi's 1993 _In on the KIlltaker_. So, yeah, for a while Bikini  
Kill were a DC band and in their wake inspired the all-gal Slant 6 and  
some others.... 

That of course is a bit of a stretch musically and  ideologically from 
the same scene that had birthed bands like Iron Cross  (America's first 
Oi! band?) and Void in 1980.

I'm a huge DC scene  nerd -- I like all of that scene's music it up until 
the late 90s, and  even then I like some Bluetip and some isolated stuff. 
I do not like The  Evens, Ian MacKaye's new post-post-hardcore project.

I'd like to get  _Dance of Days_ quite a bit. And hey -- here's Ian 
MacKaye w/ Embrace  singing "Dance of Days" live in 1986 -- amazingly 
someone videotaped this  shit!

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW3EQu_wR1I

Probably will  be deleted soon!!
*
-Oliver







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