Black Flag/Rollins and Fugazi/Minor Threat

ealasaid76
ealasaid76 Posts: 95
edited April 2006 in Other Music
Any or all of these bands are THE best when it comes to kick ass music and lyrics...and being real about what they're on stage for. Of course, why they make records...and what not.

I've met Ian Mackaye and he's just a cool human being.

He does music because he loves it and has a passion for it.

I think Eddie had/has that POV.

Don't know where it's going now, since they've signed to J Records, a BMG label...which is run by one of the most famous record label presidents in the country...or world: Clive Davis.

Punk rawk man...nothing like it.

Cheers,

Meegan
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  • VOLITION
    VOLITION Posts: 328
    i agree with you 100%. Black Flag and Minor threat were two of the greatest punk bands ever
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  • lumpyfred
    lumpyfred Posts: 243
    I just got Red Medicine by Fugazi in the mail from Dischord today and am way fuckin pumped to check it out. By far one of the best bands when it comes to principles, musicianship and lyrics in my opinion. My current faves by them are The Argument and Repeater. God they kick ass.
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    A lot of talk in another thread about Hank, so I dug up this old thread.

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  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Hobbes said:

    A lot of talk in another thread about Hank, so I dug up this old thread.

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    Yes! :D
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  • Karojo820673
    Karojo820673 Posts: 201
    All are amazing
  • robertstackarmy
    robertstackarmy So. WI Posts: 682
    edited June 2014
    The Rollins Band is one of the more unrated bands in this bunch. The fact that Henry could bring in different groups of guys all the time and still kill it is amazing,
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,715
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4218AQJqqM
    Hello there. Didn't even know of this early singer. Looks like a fun time
  • BR2428
    BR2428 Posts: 138
    edited February 25
    He was credited as Chavo Pederest on the Everything Went Black album and the Jealous Again EP. 
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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,822
    Too bad Rollins "retired" from doing music.

    His spoken word shows are great.  I saw one of his first such shows in the mid-80s....he was very angry back then, but he has since mellowed out quite a bit!
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,076
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    Too bad Rollins "retired" from doing music.

    His spoken word shows are great.  I saw one of his first such shows in the mid-80s....he was very angry back then, but he has since mellowed out quite a bit!
    When I was in high school I worked in a record store and Henry Rollins came in. I didn't know who he was at the time, but a few others who worked there got all flustered about it. Then when I moved to NYC, my second day here I passed him on the street. That was my first of many many celebrity sightings while walking around the city.

  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,246
    BR2428 said:
    He was credited as Chavo Pederest on the Everything Went Black album and the Jealous Again EP. 
    You're thinking of Ron Reyes.
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  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,246
    My wife told me a story about something that Rollins did to her friend. I'm not going to go into it, but I will say it was horribly abusive and contradictory to the image he tries to portray. I still listen to Flag, but it's hard to reconcile what I know about him.
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,715
    Not cool. F..k him. Heard he is outspoken about being a womanizer. But abusive there are no excuses imo. 
    Hope he's not like that anymore.
  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,246
    Loujoe said:
    Not cool. F..k him. Heard he is outspoken about being a womanizer. But abusive there are no excuses imo. 
    Hope he's not like that anymore.
    I really hope so, as well.
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Everyone knows he was misgonystic back in the day.  Seeing his interviews and how he is now I would think he mellowed out.  His bassist whom was a female left the band because of this too.  This is also a very long time ago.
  • EL91640
    EL91640 Posts: 334
    https://blabbermouth.net/news/black-flag-announces-fresh-lineup-promises-new-music-and-tour-dates#google_vignette
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