"American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986"

i kinda devoured the book like candy, actually.

I wasn't planning to watch more than a few minutes of it, but I was sucked in and got fairly captivated -- mostly by thinking about how a scene that seemed to contain so much idiotic reprehensible moron bullshit could also contain a bunch of incredibly smart non-reprehensible within it, something I find a lot harder to imagine today. Fewer options then, I suppose.

honestly, most of the moron stuff seemed confined to the big cities. l.a., new york, boston. out in the sticks it was more innocent. or more diy. or people were just grateful to hear the music. even if only two people cared.

i'm talking early on. later you would have meathead scenes all over. or no-meat scenes that were pretty dumb.

That was kind of the film's (brief) treatment of the midwestern scene, actually. And you could see it in the show footage, to be honest.

Didn't Jack Grisham run for public office?

i saw connecticut go from this:

yay!!!

http://www.76percent.com/gallery/images/band+friends1.jpg

to this:

we kill you now!

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n116/blawk359/Band%20PR%20Photos/hatebreed.jpg

my favorite part of this thread is where somebody asks jbr "are you fucking gay?"

Yes! Especially where the mook ends his rant by hailing hardcore for being so cerebral. Nope, no contradiction there.

911 tracks to listen to!!!

http://www.americanhardcorebook.com/punk24/

Penelope Spheeris is gonna be talking at the AFI in suburban DC with Jeff Krulik, Heavy Metal Parking Lot director, tonight between showing of Decline of Western Civ, the punk years and the metal years ones