American Hardcore
Oct. 30th, 2008 01:35 pmA documentary on the hardcore punk movement from 1980-1986. The first ten minutes are spent setting up how the music was a reaction to the new Reagan era and the feel of how something was lacking from the then popular music. And then they spend an hour and a half getting anecdotes from what seems to be every surviving person from the scene. Minor Threat, The Bad Brains, DOA, Black Flag, The Misfits, Gang Green, The Circle Jerks and plenty more. Who, after a while, all start to blend together...
Probably the three most interesting things from the movement only get lightly touched on. Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler briefly touches on how anti-female much of the movement is. Also very lightly mentioned is the popularity of the music genre with skin-head and similar groups. Mostly as a joke about how one of the most popular hardcore groups with skin-heads had a vocally out gay lead. And though the Bad Brains are mentioned by near everyone as a major influence, nothing is said about a movement predominantly white having an all-black band as one of the "founders"...
While I'm a fan of punk in all its incarnations the doc just comes off as light-weight, not really taking a deep look at any part of the scene...
Probably the three most interesting things from the movement only get lightly touched on. Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler briefly touches on how anti-female much of the movement is. Also very lightly mentioned is the popularity of the music genre with skin-head and similar groups. Mostly as a joke about how one of the most popular hardcore groups with skin-heads had a vocally out gay lead. And though the Bad Brains are mentioned by near everyone as a major influence, nothing is said about a movement predominantly white having an all-black band as one of the "founders"...
While I'm a fan of punk in all its incarnations the doc just comes off as light-weight, not really taking a deep look at any part of the scene...
Flogging Molly '08
Mar. 17th, 2008 11:14 pmBack from the concert. So tired. So awesome. But first the negatives...
The concert had a change of venue from the Mesa Amphitheater (where they were last year) to the Tempe Beach Park. Which has shit parking. And the overflow was about half-a-mile away. So I ended up using one of the many pay garages in Tempe's Mill area. Happily, after losing my parking ticket at the concert, the guy in the box let me slide and didn't bother charging me. So that was cool of him. Also, the Mesa Amphitheater had a large flat area in front of their band area and then a tiered little hill spot. Meaning an easy seperation of the Mosh area from the non-Mosh area. Tempe Beach Park is one big flat park thingy. Meaning one big Mosh area sprung up and several smaller Mosh areas sprung up. Meaning people kept running into me. Next year I wear regular shoes...
Positives: Both opening bads KICKED ASS.
The first was the Cherry Cokes. An all-Japanese Celtic Folk Punk band. Truly the world is more awesome than any have given it credit. Irish Folk songs sung in Japanese. Wow. I mean how the hell did he manage to find SIX other people in Japan who wanted to specialize in Celtic Folk/Punk fusion?
Then it was the Rev. Payton's Big Damn Band. Another Folk/Punk fusion. This time Southern Folk. Again wow. Last year I was impressed how the trombone player for the Voodoo Glow Skulls could just own the stage. This year it was a woman playing a washboard...
But again once Flogging Molly hit the stage it blew everything else away. Yeah those moshing people were annoying. But FM just fires the crowd up. They played several songs off their new album Float. Including the title song and "Requiem for a Dying Song". Both great. And for the official finale everyone from both opening acts came out and started singing with them. Which was just bad ass. Of course King was convinced to come out for an encore after repeated chants of Ole and Flogging Molly. He started with a solo version of "Black Friday Rule", though the rest of the band came out to join in for the final chorus. And then they closed up with "Seven Deadly Sins"...
So. Fucking. Awesome.
The concert had a change of venue from the Mesa Amphitheater (where they were last year) to the Tempe Beach Park. Which has shit parking. And the overflow was about half-a-mile away. So I ended up using one of the many pay garages in Tempe's Mill area. Happily, after losing my parking ticket at the concert, the guy in the box let me slide and didn't bother charging me. So that was cool of him. Also, the Mesa Amphitheater had a large flat area in front of their band area and then a tiered little hill spot. Meaning an easy seperation of the Mosh area from the non-Mosh area. Tempe Beach Park is one big flat park thingy. Meaning one big Mosh area sprung up and several smaller Mosh areas sprung up. Meaning people kept running into me. Next year I wear regular shoes...
Positives: Both opening bads KICKED ASS.
The first was the Cherry Cokes. An all-Japanese Celtic Folk Punk band. Truly the world is more awesome than any have given it credit. Irish Folk songs sung in Japanese. Wow. I mean how the hell did he manage to find SIX other people in Japan who wanted to specialize in Celtic Folk/Punk fusion?
Then it was the Rev. Payton's Big Damn Band. Another Folk/Punk fusion. This time Southern Folk. Again wow. Last year I was impressed how the trombone player for the Voodoo Glow Skulls could just own the stage. This year it was a woman playing a washboard...
But again once Flogging Molly hit the stage it blew everything else away. Yeah those moshing people were annoying. But FM just fires the crowd up. They played several songs off their new album Float. Including the title song and "Requiem for a Dying Song". Both great. And for the official finale everyone from both opening acts came out and started singing with them. Which was just bad ass. Of course King was convinced to come out for an encore after repeated chants of Ole and Flogging Molly. He started with a solo version of "Black Friday Rule", though the rest of the band came out to join in for the final chorus. And then they closed up with "Seven Deadly Sins"...
So. Fucking. Awesome.
Musical Blathering
Jan. 16th, 2005 03:54 pmSo I'm going thru my cd collection, just working my way thru it. Rather than figure out how to put them all on WinAmp playlist and hit random...
But anyhow I'm this one cd I got from StJude aka![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zerographic. Its a collection of punk love songs. The cd is decent, but really it could be relabled a Punk Rock Primer...
Stuff by the Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Dead Milkmen, the Dickies, the Vandals and more. Hell, its got TWO songs by Iggy and the Stooges...
But anyhow I'm this one cd I got from StJude aka
zerographic. Its a collection of punk love songs. The cd is decent, but really it could be relabled a Punk Rock Primer...Stuff by the Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Dead Milkmen, the Dickies, the Vandals and more. Hell, its got TWO songs by Iggy and the Stooges...
