@@iamthewalruscuckookachoo1372Omg yeah! Kiss, Motörhead, The Sex Pistols, the Ramones, Dead Boys were all massively influential. But for super heavy stuff, Kiss, Motorhead and the Bad Brains were everything. I love the Dammed but better than the Dead Boys live?
From my review of the top 15 punk albums published on Analog Planet site. " Second hardcore band in a row--you know I'm loving this. And what a band it is! Countless musicians in the early 80's hardcore scene say they were the greatest live band they'd ever seen. Ian Mackaye said, " I saw the Bad Brains for the first time in June of 1979, opening for The Damned at The Bayou, this disgusting jock bar. I needed a fake ID to get in. The Bad Brains opened and transcended anything I'd ever seen. They were the band...that had a profound impact on me. They moved me." Vocalist Paul "H.R." Hudson, guitarist Gary "Dr. Know" Miller, bassist Darrryl Jennifer and drummer Earl Hudson, four black dudes in Washington D.C. began by playing jazz fusion in 1978, but after hearing records by Dead Boys, The Dickies, Ramones, The Clash, The Damned and Sex Pistols, they dropped fusion and punked out. Bad Brains add reggae songs on their albums. They've cited a few bands as inspiration. " A big influence was Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder and a group called The Dickies...Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder on the spiritual end. The Dickies more on the musical end. Because when I heard their music, I said ' Gee, it's fast. This is really bad.' That's what made me really start liking fast rock and roll, which eventually led to hardcore which is what we're into now." Dr. Know has said, "We wanted to be known as the fastest band in the world. The Ramones were the fastest but we could improve on that. At the same time, we didn't want to be doing that same three-chord routine. Not that there's anything wrong when the Ramones do it, but we had something to prove musically. That's how we've always been, wanting to keep it challenging and interesting. The gift of musicality is not to be taken lightly." Bad Brains' enduring legacy rests on four albums. Black Dots collects their earliest recordings from June, 1979, the album in this article, Rock For Light (produced by Ric Ocasek) and I Against I (not really hardcore, rather a muscular rock attack and simply one of the great American LP's of the 80's). Bad Brains were not the first hardcore band; that honor probably goes to Black Flag who recorded their EP “Nervous Breakdown” in January, 1978. (It was finally released in February, 1979.) But when Bad Brains first 7" single, "Pay to Cum" bw "Stay Close To Me," came out in June, 1980, it blew thousands of punk minds all over America. Suddenly it was a whole new ballgame. There had been fast hardcore songs before this, but nothing like the obliterating power unleashed here. My friends and I played "Pay To Cum" over and over, until the grooves were worn down. And with every listen we were in awe. Many times, I tried singing along to the lyrics of this 1 minute 32 seconds song but always wound up failing about a third of the way through, crumpled up on the floor, laughing like an insane person. This debut LP has fifteen tracks, twelve lightning fast hardcore and three much longer reggae songs that fit in surprisingly well, although that's not the band's strength. The blistering "Sailin' On" opens the record. " You don't need me anymore/ So I'll just walk right out the door/ Played a game right from the start/ I trust you, you used me, now my heart's torn apart." "Banned In D.C." (about their problems with the clubs there) " Banned in D.C. with a thousand other places to go/ Gonna swim across the Atlantic 'cause it's the only thing I can do/ You can't hurt me/ Why? I'm banned in D.C." The incredible "The Big Takeover" " So understand me when I say/ There's no hope for this USA/ Your world is doomed with our own integration/ Just another Nazi test." And the iconic "Pay To Cum" (here in a different version than the 45) " I make decision with precision/ Lost inside this manned collision/ Just to see that what is to be/ Perfectly my fantasy/ I come to know with now dismay/ That in this world we all must pay/ Pay to write, pay to play/ Pay to cum, pay to fight." Totally amazing singing and playing. Hear this album once and you'll never be the same again. A crowning achievement in modern American music."
@@flacobrian3754 Hopefully, because this is a awful old VHS copy. If the original 16mm film (or maybe it's Super 8mm) still exists then it can be rescanned to digital in much superior quality.
Nicola Lanzenberg filmed it with her son. She sold the limited useage rights for some of the bad brains footage (she had other films/videos) to someone/some entity in Asia In 2007/2008. I’m pretty sure it was 16mm originally , she told me but I forgot. She’s passed away but her son is a filmmaker (in Los Angeles ? I believe) -so it exists out here in the digital realm … if it will ever see the light of day in any other format is yet to be seen
CBGBs is/was a NY landmark that the City of NY should have never let be sold or demolished. It is/was a cultural legacy...that is now a clothing store. An absolute shame.
It probably wasn't even on purpose though. Years of heavy drug abuse, insane on stage antics, head banging, just generally living the life destroyed his body and mind. It's obvious and only makes sense he would developed severe mental illness and be burnt out as he aged throughout the years. I wouldn't expect him to be all prestine, professional and still doing back flips off speakers n shit in his older years. He more than paid his dues. Guess he really did live up to the bands name. HR ain't no poser that's for sure. He's not trying to be somethings he's not like some of these other old bands still trying to relive their glory days.
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Bad Brains changed my life for the better. much respect.
The best to ever do it
You obviously never seen the Damned live lol. Nah The Bad Brains were fucking unbelievable. Such massive influence on a hell of alot of bands.
Best hardcore band for sure.
There are no superlatives in art, dummy.
@@eldoabrahamson like that's just my opinion man, relax😒
@@iamthewalruscuckookachoo1372Omg yeah! Kiss, Motörhead, The Sex Pistols, the Ramones, Dead Boys were all massively influential. But for super heavy stuff, Kiss, Motorhead and the Bad Brains were everything. I love the Dammed but better than the Dead Boys live?
1979 ? Revolutionary!
8:35 check out HR smoothly dodge that can thrown at him
That man is not of this world.
Holy FUCK. That was incredible
why would someone hurt HR, that's crazy
Bad Brains. Easily one of the most innovative and influential hands down.
What a front man HR was!!
@kyfaydfsoab I'm a number one brains fan
THIS MACHINE KILLS.
Das ich das noch erleben darf,und das meine ich Ernst .
Vielen Dank.
Gruß aus Hamburg.
Bad Brains are still the undisputed kings of hardcore and always will be💯
THIS NEVER GETS OLD...ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE HERE WENT AND FORMED BANDS AFTER BEING COMPLETELY FLOORED BY THIS AMAZING PERFORMANCE
Mid-tempo "Attitude" and "I" rule the wasteland...
I watch that final flip about six times...😂
From my review of the top 15 punk albums published on Analog Planet site.
" Second hardcore band in a row--you know I'm loving this.
And what a band it is! Countless musicians in the early 80's hardcore scene say they were the greatest live band they'd ever seen. Ian Mackaye said, " I saw the Bad Brains for the first time in June of 1979, opening for The Damned at The Bayou, this disgusting jock bar. I needed a fake ID to get in. The Bad Brains opened and transcended anything I'd ever seen. They were the band...that had a profound impact on me. They moved me."
Vocalist Paul "H.R." Hudson, guitarist Gary "Dr. Know" Miller, bassist Darrryl Jennifer and drummer Earl Hudson, four black dudes in Washington D.C. began by playing jazz fusion in 1978, but after hearing records by Dead Boys, The Dickies, Ramones, The Clash, The Damned and Sex Pistols, they dropped fusion and punked out.
Bad Brains add reggae songs on their albums. They've cited a few bands as inspiration. " A big influence was Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder and a group called The Dickies...Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder on the spiritual end. The Dickies more on the musical end. Because when I heard their music, I said ' Gee, it's fast. This is really bad.' That's what made me really start liking fast rock and roll, which eventually led to hardcore which is what we're into now."
Dr. Know has said, "We wanted to be known as the fastest band in the world. The Ramones were the fastest but we could improve on that. At the same time, we didn't want to be doing that same three-chord routine. Not that there's anything wrong when the Ramones do it, but we had something to prove musically. That's how we've always been, wanting to keep it challenging and interesting. The gift of musicality is not to be taken lightly."
Bad Brains' enduring legacy rests on four albums. Black Dots collects their earliest recordings from June, 1979, the album in this article, Rock For Light (produced by Ric Ocasek) and I Against I (not really hardcore, rather a muscular rock attack and simply one of the great American LP's of the 80's).
Bad Brains were not the first hardcore band; that honor probably goes to Black Flag who recorded their EP “Nervous Breakdown” in January, 1978. (It was finally released in February, 1979.) But when Bad Brains first 7" single, "Pay to Cum" bw "Stay Close To Me," came out in June, 1980, it blew thousands of punk minds all over America. Suddenly it was a whole new ballgame. There had been fast hardcore songs before this, but nothing like the obliterating power unleashed here. My friends and I played "Pay To Cum" over and over, until the grooves were worn down. And with every listen we were in awe. Many times, I tried singing along to the lyrics of this 1 minute 32 seconds song but always wound up failing about a third of the way through, crumpled up on the floor, laughing like an insane person.
This debut LP has fifteen tracks, twelve lightning fast hardcore and three much longer reggae songs that fit in surprisingly well, although that's not the band's strength. The blistering "Sailin' On" opens the record. " You don't need me anymore/ So I'll just walk right out the door/ Played a game right from the start/ I trust you, you used me, now my heart's torn apart." "Banned In D.C." (about their problems with the clubs there) " Banned in D.C. with a thousand other places to go/ Gonna swim across the Atlantic 'cause it's the only thing I can do/ You can't hurt me/ Why? I'm banned in D.C." The incredible "The Big Takeover" " So understand me when I say/ There's no hope for this USA/ Your world is doomed with our own integration/ Just another Nazi test." And the iconic "Pay To Cum" (here in a different version than the 45) " I make decision with precision/ Lost inside this manned collision/ Just to see that what is to be/ Perfectly my fantasy/ I come to know with now dismay/ That in this world we all must pay/ Pay to write, pay to play/ Pay to cum, pay to fight."
Totally amazing singing and playing. Hear this album once and you'll never be the same again. A crowning achievement in modern American music."
yea not reading all of that. bad brains 4 life
Thanks for uploading this whole film. Have only seen it in pieces through out the years
This is brilliant and really needs a 4K release
Amazing
National treasure.
definitive hardcore hour. for like 27 minutes. a record!
The best there ever was, the best there ever will be.
There are no superlatives in art, dummy.
Thank you for this...I was born in NY in 1979 and this rules!
@kyfaydfsoab I wish I could have gone in 1979 but my first visit to CBGBs was 1995
First time seeing this. 🔥🔥🔥
GREAT! Thanks for this.
Instant subscribe. THANK YOU for this. People need to know. You’re helping 🙏🤘🤙
Hopefully this still exists on film and can be restored
I think I’ve seen some clips of this show used in a bad brains documentary so it has to exist somewhere just not released sadly
@@flacobrian3754 Hopefully, because this is a awful old VHS copy. If the original 16mm film (or maybe it's Super 8mm) still exists then it can be rescanned to digital in much superior quality.
Nicola Lanzenberg filmed it with her son. She sold the limited useage rights for some of the bad brains footage (she had other films/videos) to someone/some entity in Asia In 2007/2008. I’m pretty sure it was 16mm originally , she told me but I forgot.
She’s passed away but her son is a filmmaker (in Los Angeles ? I believe)
-so it exists out here in the digital realm … if it will ever see the light of day in any other format is yet to be seen
@@BenDaijo Thanks for the info
Thank you uploading this. These guys were fucking unbelievable live.
BABY!!!
Check out the band called ""DEATH"
A Band Called Death, they're awesome, discovered them a couple years ago! "Politicians in my Eyes" is the shit!
This is so totally historic. Wild it doesn't have more views. Thanks for the upload. Any idea who did the recording?
Sylvain Cattai and Christopher Lanzenberg were the camera operators according to IMDB.
0:35 - that dude outside the car is moving like he’s dusted!
The Golden Arches!!)
No way never seen this before
goosebumps!
thank you so much, finally to see this lip-synched... awesome!
This band needs a biopic asap
Dang, I never seen this
Cool 👍👍👍
Killer!!!
Hall of Fame level of cultural impact imo.
Pre-Jah.
holyyyyyyyyy fuck!
4:27 Dr Know ssshhhhrrrreeeeddddsssss
CBGBs is/was a NY landmark that the City of NY should have never let be sold or demolished. It is/was a cultural legacy...that is now a clothing store. An absolute shame.
Everything cool in NYC is disappearing. And the St. Marks Hotel is now a boutique $1,000 a night hotel.
@@zippymufo9765 $1000 a night?! WTF?! 😳
fuck yes
@kyfaydfsoab what
I think n.y. is gonna go back to looking like this the old n.y. Is coming back
The band Bad Brains is awesome but HR destroyed their reputation with his behavior.
It probably wasn't even on purpose though. Years of heavy drug abuse, insane on stage antics, head banging, just generally living the life destroyed his body and mind. It's obvious and only makes sense he would developed severe mental illness and be burnt out as he aged throughout the years. I wouldn't expect him to be all prestine, professional and still doing back flips off speakers n shit in his older years. He more than paid his dues. Guess he really did live up to the bands name. HR ain't no poser that's for sure. He's not trying to be somethings he's not like some of these other old bands still trying to relive their glory days.
No he didn't 🙄
H.R is Forever legendary
Hes schizophrenic
I saw them under soul brains in 2002. Was bummed out BUT he is not young anymore.
Proof that Rastafari ruined the Bad Brains.
I don't care people said, sailin on is the anthem.