[kj] American Hardcore documentary posted on YouTube

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GI was good. Being from the DC area I saw them quite a bit when I first  
started going to shows (84-5)
They were never a real headliner band- they could headline  a smaller show 
but usually they were opening. they would get picked  on/razzed a bit from the 
(then intense) Skinhead scene here. I was never really  sure why. 
I think they were a great band and under rated but Im not sure about a real  
mention in American Hardcore. 
Would have been nice a brief clip and quick  name mention or something- 
Marginal Man was a great band also and I do remember  them doing some headlining 
shows with big turn outs- They didn't play out that  much. United Mutation went 
through a stint where they played a bunch of  headlinig shows with this band 
Scythian- they had their own little scene going. 
 There was a new DC book that just came out and its called "Punk Love"  - its 
more just a DC punker book though as it was pictures from a girl who was  in 
the early scene who used to work with Henry Rollins and Ian Mackaye at the  
Haagen Daaz in Georgetown. Some nice shots of all of them as kids and from some  
very early DC shows 
  There was an opening for the book a couple of months ago that I was  
invited to. Rollins and Mackaye were there as they do  the commentary in the book. 
All the old guys were there actually-  Stabb, Danny Ingram, etc. 
 
 
 
 
absence, I was like, Hmm, well, what about G.I. -- they were there from  
the beginning and lasted pretty freaking long, including future members  
of Jawbox. Their total absence in the movie was very bizarre considering  
the long career theyhad, even well past the documentary's sort of  
artifical cut off date of 1986
 
In a message dated 3/26/2007 9:20:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
LONESTYLE at aol.com writes:

You know  I have a United Mutation ep. from 1983 without the cover. It is 
funny for the  voice sounds like one of those Black Metal bands from Norway! LOL! 
Way before  it's time. Never got into No Trend until much later. Good band. 
It seems  lots of bands were not in that so called DC crowd. John Stabb said 
that they  always thought they were treated a bit unfairly in the scene. Same 
goes for  Scream and Marginal Man. The "Banned in DC" book is great! Awesome 
pictures!  "Dance of Days" is a really good book and has a ton of information in 
it. It  gets a bit boring about Positve Force and all that Riot Grrl crap. I 
really do  not know why they even put that in there?  



 
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