Bitter Uproar “New York’s Negative Approach”

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Early NYHC scene reports / Part IV.

Scene report by Big City fanzine, 1984

Guillotine fanzine

Part I.
NYHC scene report from Grudge fanzine
https://doyouknowhardcore.com/2020/08/19/early-nyhc-scene-report-part-i/

Part II.
NYHC scene report from The Informant fanzine
https://doyouknowhardcore.com/2020/08/30/early-nyhc-scene-reports-part-ii/

Part III.
NYHC scene report from Leading Edge fanzine
https://doyouknowhardcore.com/2021/01/31/early-nyhc-scene-reports-part-iii/

Early NYHC scene reports / Part III.

Scene report by Leading Edge fanzine, 1983

Cause For Alarm at The Great Gildersleeves in 1983. Photo: Carl Serio.

Part I.
NYHC scene report from Grudge fanzine
https://doyouknowhardcore.com/2020/08/19/early-nyhc-scene-report-part-i/

Part II.
NYHC scene report from The Informant fanzine
https://doyouknowhardcore.com/2020/08/30/early-nyhc-scene-reports-part-ii/

RIP, Sid McCray

Sid was the original singer of Bad Brains before HR, and the guy who turned them onto punk music. He wrote the legendary song called “The Regulator”, without him Bad Brains would not sound at all the way we know and love.

The band came together about 1977. The members of the Bad Brains first met each other at Central High School in the lower-income DC suburb of Capitol Heights, Maryland, where Earl and Dr. Know were in the same art and science classes. They were initially influenced by jazz-fusion and were originally called Mind Power. They had been bouncing around playing music since 1977 and doing backyard and basement parties at the house that they lived in on Bay Way in Maryland. But that all changed the day a friend of Darryl Jenifer’s paid a visit: “Sid McCray came over my house. He had safety pins and stuff all over him, and he had records – Ramones, Dead Boys, Generation X – I found to be kind of interesting. The cats couldn’t really play, but they had something to say.” Soon afterwards, Mind Power dropped the fusion and replaced it with punk, and changed their name to Bad Brains. Bad Brains immersed themselves in punk music and culture. In 1979, the Bad Brains did their first New York show at CBGB’s.

Early NYHC scene reports / Part II.

NYHC scene report from The Informant fanzine

Cro-Mags pic by Somewhere Below 14th & East/Karen O’Sullivan

The Psychos interview

This interview was originally published in Guillotine fanzine, issue 8. Pic by Amy, Radio Raheem.

Straight Ahead interview by Confuzed fanzine

This interview is originally published in Confuzed fanzine, issue 2. Pic by Brooke Smith

 

Shining Life channel – YOT, Underdog, GB

The Shining Life guys have started uploading some videos to their YouTube channel. Encouraged by this, I looked up some old In-Effect, Open Your Eyes, Not For The Weak reviews. Pictures by BJ Papas, Shining Life, Brian Boog.

YOUTH OF TODAY – Live @ City Gardens – Trenton, NJ – March 20, 1988
https://youtu.be/A7m3L-eK7vM

review by Open Your Eyes fanzine

UNDERDOG – Live @ CBGB – New York, NY – April 17, 1988
https://youtu.be/pVSxBbgxqiY

review by In Effect fanzine

GORILLA BISCUITS – Live @ The Anthrax – Norwalk, CT – June 9, 1990
https://youtu.be/UI-pTCqm6to

review by Not For The Weak fanzine

Gorilla Biscuits at the Anthrax (1988)