I was from D.C., but I remember when Uniform Choice played at the Hung Jury Pub. Remember seeing Cro Mags on AOQ tour at the 9:30 Club. Youth of Today opening for 7 Seconds when they just had their 7" record out, Warzone, Slapshot, Kraut, Bad Brains, Bold, G Biscuits, and Side By Side at the Anthrax in Connecticut, D.R.I and C.O.C. multiple times, Kraut, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, MOD, Angry Samoans, FANG, MDC, Black Flag, Circle Jerks ,GBH,Exploited ,G.I. Suicidal more times than I can remember, Verbal Abuse, Jerrys Kids Agnostic front on their UNITY 85 tour when Frenchie roadied for them, Adolescents with Gang Green and Dr. Know opening for them, oh yes Chris Notaro from Krackdown and later CRUMBSUCKERS was the one who really got me into h.c. in late 1982. My first show was Negative Approach in Richmond Va. when they played on their Tied Down tour in 1983. This doesn't even scratch the surface on how many great shows I went to back in the day..Ive just forgotten most of them with the haze of time.. Look at the linear note/ lyric sheet of the t shirt your wearing, Im listed in there "Tyler in D.C."
Fantastic stories Tyler! You were really there!! Must be great to think of all the rock n roll history you witnessed! So many good bands!! I missed all this stuff! I wasn’t old enough or hip enough to see those shows! Good for you!! Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences in the comments!! Very much appreciated and respected!! Have a good one!! Cheers, Jon
Hey Snotty! Thanks for watching!! Appreciate it! Glad you dug this one! If I recall, I made a few mistakes on which pressings I had.. Cool you got into NYHC!! What a great little era of music! Wish I appreciated it more back then. Have a good one!! Cheers, Jon
Great hearing about the young 80s metalhead infiltrating the NYC hardcore scene using adaptive stealth technology aka a DRI t-shirt. LEEWAY is one of the few I know of these. I went to a bunch of hardcore shows in Cardiff when I was a lad, I wasn't so much into the music as my friends were but loved the energy of the shows. Great video Jon!
Hi Andy! Exactly!! It wasn’t as much about the music, but more about the excitement and being with my friends in a dangerous place! I was a bit of a weirdo cause I like too many different genres back then. Sisters of Mercy, Stray Cats, Ramones and Jesus and Mary Chain were some of my favorite bands. I would get grief from the metal heads too. I almost got beat up at a Slayer show for wearing a Ramones shirt. Crazy times. Thanks for watching!! Cheers!!
Hey brother! To let you know, I just spun Powertrip. Yeah, pretty good. Straight up legit crossover thrash. Besides This Party Sucks, which was a fun song, the songs weren’t as memorable and funny as the first lp, but they were aggressive and solid. Good listen, good record! Thanks for telling me to give it another chance!! Cheers, Jon
That Revelation comp is a classic! I saw one of Gorilla Biscuits last gigs at Club Babyhead in Providence, only cuz my buddy’s band was in one of the openers. Wrecking Crew! I’ve got a split 7” with them and Sam Black Church on the other side. You’re bringing back so many great memories with this vid, Jon. I saw so many hardcore shows in Boston in the 90’s, and Murphy’s Law was often the headliner, even though they were a NYHC band. Killer records, man! I’ve got a bunch of em too. I saw 24-7 Spyz with Bad Brains somewhere. Awesome video. Thanks, Jon!
@@NickP333 thanks for watching Nick! Lots of good memories from those days. Being young, it was a wild frontier of underground music! Yeah the Penalty Box was a right old dump! I played a few shows there later on. The upstairs room was called something different by then. Can’t remember the name off hand. Have a great day!! Cheers, Jon
Thank you for watching!!! I appreciate it!! FYI, I think I showed the 1988 pressing of Don’t forget the Struggle, not the first pressing as I stated. A few mistakes on here. But Warzone were definitely cool!! Sorry for late reply! Have a great weekend! Jon
Wow! That’s awesome! You are part of Hardcore history! If you had to pick one compilation to be on, you picked the best one (In my opinion of course)! I don’t think I ever saw your band. I didn’t see a ton of those shows, but I certainly remember the Trip 6 name around! Thank you for watching! Much appreciated! Forgive any mistakes or omissions I made in this video. Haha! Have a great holiday! Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom Cheers buddy! Trip 6 was fun, we opened for AF a couple times, never left NYC. Those guys were the Psychos first, absolute scene legends. I played in a couple other bands you've definitely seen or heard of, was very lucky to have played with some real life legends. Too much of a drunk to ever get anywhere before getting fired but hey, at least I can say I was there. And have some great memories, and a couple photos and albums to show for it. Thanks for putting this stuff out! This is American music history. Have a great holiday my friend!
@@KMc-cw3qt you are on point K Mc when you call it American music history!! Hardcore, punk, rockabilly, garage, blues etc is the real stuff! For the people and by the people! The rejects, rebels and losers of society! Haha! Appreciate your comments! Cheers!
Awesome video, brings back a lot of memories. I got into NYHC right after you moved on. I was more into the crossover bands which is what led me to the NYHC bands. Loved Gorilla Biscuits, Cro-Mags, early Biohazard. I got into Madball a little later, late 90s. I had a friend from New York that had a connection with someone from the band...a brother or cousin or something, and he gave me a bunch of their albums. There was a pretty good sized straight edge scene in Phoenix when I was into HC that worshipped at the alter of Youth of Today. I remember going to a show that featured a friends band Windigo Psychosis that was headlined by a big straight edge band from NY or DC and me an my buddies about started a riot. We were smoking weed a cigarettes and the straight edge cats in the crowd weren't having it....good times.
Haha Steve!!! I laughed hard at your last lines!! “Good Times!” That about sums it all up!! I was never a true hardcore guy, but I did like it. I was definitely more into crossover like SOD and Suicidal. But I also liked the Ramones and The Rolling Stones and of course metal. When you were into that music, the shows were probably even more violent than when I was there. I was mellowing out by the 90s. But hardcore music was a great experience for a lot young guys. Loved the excitement and energy! Great that you saw the classic bands still in their heyday!!! Thanks for watching Steve!! I appreciate you stopping by!!! Hope all is well! Cheers, Jon
Thanks for watching Kenny!! Only recently found your channel, been digging it!! You got some great stuff!! I think I’m wrong on the Cromags. I think the censored version was first and mine is a second pressing. Both are from 1986 either way. Cheers!!
Awesome collection! All those NYHC records you have are classics and go high on ebay and discogs these days. I wish i had those og presses. That Life's Blood you have is a reissue that came out maybe in 91 or 92 on Vermiform Records. I have that one. I think the original press came out in 88 on Combined Effort Records. That Life's Blood is 🔥🔥🔥
Hey Hank! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!! Much appreciated!! Yeah, I wish I had kept all of the records and tapes I had. Oh well. Life’s Blood is pretty cool. I just picked up a bootleg album of Straight Ahead, their ep and some demos. Another blast from the past. Have a great day! Jon
Hey Bip! Pyramid Club, yes!! My favorite club ever. I just saw a few days ago they are closing their doors for good due to Covid struggles. 😔 So sad. I had one of the most fun nights of my life there. It will be missed. Anyway, nice video & love the outfit! See ya around. 👋🏼😎
Hey Mayhem!! Thanks for stopping by!! To be honest I think I only went to the Pyramid club once. I had no idea it still even existed. Too bad it’s closing! They used to get all the goth/ new wave shows in the 80s. Lot of good bands played there, but I was too young to go. Glad you got to see it!! Cheers!!!!
@@bipbopboom Only one time for me also, about 10 years ago, no bands there but the DJ was terrific. They threw a great 80s night, had a blast. I would have killed to be of age when all that was going down. 😁
Live those Warzone albums. Had someone ask me once why I listen to racists (based on the cover) and I replied "you should listen to the lyrics". Love the focus on that scene. I often think about rearranging my records by geography... but the feeling passes. Cheers! Tom
Hey Tom, thanks for watching!! People are gonna put down a band that upsets them or they don’t understand regardless of the reason. If it wasn’t the album cover, then it’s the haircut, or the lyrics, or the lack of musicianship etc etc. As you probably know, racism had no place in the scene that I ever saw. At least not in New York. Other parts of the country can’t speak of. We were there to escape school and parents and to see some wild shows. Hope all is good!! Cheers!!!
I had Sick of it all, Cro mags, I got into some of the ( what we called) posi-core Gorilla Buscuits, Insted and Uniform Choice, and some random Straight Edge comps can’t remember any of those kind of like you said with some Of these
It’s funny cause I know all the bands now after 30 years, but when the scene was actually going on, I didn’t know half the bands that played nor heard them on record. Same with most shows, you went to see the headliners. I saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers open for Fishbone. Never heard of them before. Thanks for watching Shawn!! Appreciate it!! Cheers!!
Ive been waiting for you to show these type of records, I knew you had to have some. I never checked out Leeway, I always thought they were a hair metal band-think cause of thier name. Now that I know they are a killer band, Ill probably never find the records. Ive never liked Murphys Law either, I have a old skin friend that was heavy into them in the early 90s but I couldnt stand them. I dig Ludichrist, I just got the FOAD record with the demos and other stuff.
Hey Chris, thanks for watching!!! Yeah Leeway’s first record is good. I don’t know how well a lot of these records hold up these days. A lot of them were just meant for that moment in time. I can tell you with certainty that the first Murphy’s Law record is a classic and was well loved. But 35 years later and out of context it might not seem too sophisticated or heavy enough. Murphy’s Law were the most entertaining of all the NYHC bands and Jimmy was/is a master frontman. If you were in the middle of a Murphy’s Law gig in the 80s with a beer ball being passed around while 150 kids are bouncing off the walls and singing along to Crucial BBQ, you’d see what the record was about. Although a lot of the other records here I’m not gonna heap as much praise on. Hope you’re doing well!!! Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom Im doing good, I know Murphys Law has gotten a lot of praise over the years and I can see how If I had seen them I might of liked them more.
I love those agnostic front Albums. I was a little older than you. I saw Agnostic front and they mentioned Deborah from devil doll production. She booked the hardcore shows in New Orleans.
Thanks Sak!!! I really don’t listen to much of this stuff anymore, but Agnostic Front were the best of that batch musically for sure!! Great live band!! Cheers, Jon
@@sakblabbath3715 cool!!! I knew you weren’t talking recent stuff. I figured Deborah was someone from back in the day. We’re all old these days!! Ha!! Hope you’re doing well!!! Cheers brother!!!
Great video and awesome records. I’m actually gonna see Youth of Today and Side by Side in April. P.S I’m from California so Unjform Choice in the background is the best 😂
Thank you for watching!! I appreciate it! Very cool you’re gonna see YOT!! I saw footage of them recently and they looked like they put on a good show! Have fun! Cheers, Jon
You are bringing back a lot of memories Jon. I love that Cro-Mags first album Age Of Quarrel. I saw them with Sam Black Church at the Channel. When you showed the Free For All album I remembered the band Wrecking Crew. Funny you showed it because I am almost 95% positive that they were on the same bill as Cro-Mags and Sam Black Church at the channel. I kind of remember seeing them. I think the band Youth Of Today are still out there shaking it up. Smashing video Jon. Your collection tell a tale about your punk and what it meant to you. You collected it, you lived it and you loved it. Remember Cantones? Rob/Boston
Thanks for watching Rob! Like you, I saw some hardcore shows and had great fun, but always loved all sorts of Rock n Roll at the same time. The 80s were a great time for music. Wish I could’ve seen more from that decade as I only caught the tail end. The first Boston show I ever saw was the Bad Brains at the Channel in ‘89. I know of Cantones and heard stories but it was before my time. Happy Easter!! Cheers!
I didn't expect to see YoT, much less Bold or Supertouch in your collection by assuming you are just one more thrash / crossover guy, WHICH IM GLAD TO SEE because most people stick with crossover bands and ignore or despises others like Bold, Supertouch, Burn, Shelter, which seems a shame to me because they are very good post-hc bands. I congratulate you, you have almost all classic recordings of labels that are historical today such as Revelation, Combat Core, Caroline, the first of Victory, even those of Profile Records (curious for a rap label at that time). I mention a few so as not to forget Killing Time- Brightside, Leeway - Desperate Measures, Burn, The Icemen, Madball .. great collection, I envy you!
Dario, thank you for watching!! Much appreciated! I’m glad you dug this one. I am no expert by any means and am missing quite a few important records. But that’s how it was, we didn’t have a ton of money and there was so many other records to buy besides hardcore back then. I wish I could go back and pay better attention to the bands I saw and bought more records. Oh well. We took everything for granted. There was great music everywhere in the 80s. I am glad I have some memories and some souvenirs from a small but important era in rock n roll history. Have a great day!! Jon
Dude your channel is killer I was watching Jason Skillz live stream Friday and was digging all the great stories you shared Man you have killer taste in music and your collection is absolutely amazing! Wow some really great stuff here Love that Crumbsucker T-shirt We used to wear our sleeveless denim jackets over our leather jackets Haha! Don’t know why but we thought that looked cool I guess! We were into Metal I am a huge fan of the channel Keep rocking Man! Peace ☮️✌️👽🤘☮️
Brian, so sorry not to respond to this 5 months ago. Just found this comment glad you enjoyed the video! Always enjoy your vids even if I don’t comment on every one. Keep up the great work!! Hope you’re doing well! Have a great Sunday! Jon
Love these. Got that Murohy's Law record on import back in the day. Crumbsuckers & Agnostic Front got domestic releases here (UK). Will check out the others.
Hey Colston!!! Thanks for watching!!!! I think you probably got the best three already. I can’t really vouch for the other records too much, besides the first comp that was showed. Most of these I haven’t listened to in many years and they’re more nostalgic period pieces than great music records, that makes sense. They’re cool to look at and sample anyway. Hope you’re doing well!!! Cheers, Jon
Hey Jon. Cool stuff. I can remember back in the early and mid 80s, my friends and I would head into the city to see punk shows that were often 5 bands for $5 or 7 bands for $7. Saw great bands like DOA, SNFU, The Mother F*ckers, Big House, Dayglo Abortions and The Ripcordz. Good times! Take care and Happy Easter. Cheers!
Hey Chris!! Sounds like you saw some great bands!! I’ve seen DOA a few times but much later on. SNFU and Dayglo’s had some great records too! There was just too much great music in the 80s!!!! I think of all the shows I missed and bands I hadn’t yet heard of. Thanks for watching!! Have a great day!!! Cheers!!
I would have loved to have been in the NY Hardcore scene back in the 80's early 90's. My favourite bands were Agnostic Front, Madball, Sick Of It All, Murphy's Law and Biohazard. We have a bar where I live called Murphy's Law that I saw a Murphy's Law cover band play once. My god it was a hot sweaty night full of testosterone and body odour. Almost got a broken nose in the pit. I always love your stories and thoughts brother
Hey Nathan!!! It was a cool scene to see, but looking back, it was pretty dangerous and scary too. Not only in the pit, but also on the streets and subway stations back then. For me it wasn’t so much about the music, but the excitement of these shows and being with my friends . I think the bands you like were the best of the bunch. There was a lot of lesser bands and after awhile I couldn’t tell them apart. It wasn’t really my scene, but enjoyed the shows. Really appreciate you stopping by!!! Take care, Jon
Edd, luckily we didn’t have those kinds of skins in NY. It was dangerous enough without those guys. I don’t think racists would’ve lasted too long in NYC. You say the wrong thing then someone’s gonna belt you. Cheers!!!
How in the world did you manage to keep all the goodies from a rough and tumble punker lifestyle Jon? I never thought to save anything, just move on to the next good time. Make new memories was my moniker... I do wish I'd of given it a little more thought though and kept some keepsakes instead of giving them all away. I don't know, that kinda stuffs just not that important to me and never was I guess... Cheers.
Bobby I was no rough punker that’s for sure. Just a kid who likes different kinds of rock n roll. Bobby I didn’t have too much stuff to save. All my money went to records or shows. Luckily I kept most of my records and they’re not too beat up. Cheers!!!!
I had no idea they wore work gloves to shows. I have some NYHC albums but I never related to them. It seemed like a lot of them lived in squats. Something that seemed kind of hippish to me. I always assumed they didn't work either and as someone that always worked I didn't relate. I wasn't straight edge either. I used to party but it never interfered with my job.
Don’t let me give you the wrong impression. Everybody worked back then. There was only a small faction of the toughest of the tough that were on the streets. There was no sentiment for hippies or lazy seventies punk in this scene.it was pretty mandatory that you worked as soon as you turned 15 in working class New York no matter what kind of music you were into. The straight edge thing was overblown. The only reason most straight edgers were straight was because they were too young to drink legally. Musically east coast hardcore is not my favorite but it was a wonderful dangerous place to enter into as a kid. We didn’t have to option of seeing the Adolescents or D.I or the west coast bands very often. And I was still pretty young still. Thanks for watching!!! Cheers
@@bipbopboom You didn’t give me the wrong impression at all. I’ve just seen interviews with band members and other people from the NY scene and they quite often talk about living in squats. I’ve seen interviews with dudes from Long Island and the other boroughs of NY and they seem more relatable. I was joking about the hippy shit. I know it was tough living on the streets of NY but when you hear dudes talking about living in squats I’m always thinking get a job. NYHC is not my favorite Punk either and honestly by late 80’s I wasn’t going to shows. I was a lot older than most going to Hardcore shows.
@@vinylrichie007 yeah Richie, it’s probably the same with California. Not every punk was living like in the movie Suburbia either. Most people had jobs, homes and curfews. Make no mistake this video was about hardcore, but it wasn’t the major part of my life. I was getting into the Stones, Sisters of mercy, Killing Joke and Velvet Underground at the same time this was going on. Jack of all trades, master of none. Cheers!!!
@@bipbopboom I used to have a hand silk screened Wall Of Voodoo shirt. Lino Lousy, a friend, asked me “Do you like those guy.” He couldn’t get that there was more to music than hardcore.
If you were at all into skate culture some of these records filtered to you, despite not being in the city. I was a fat kid who couldn't skate, but my brother was a skater, so I have some distant knowledge from that. That sure did look like Pilgrim State.
Thanks watching for Kris!! Yeah I completely forgot about the skate thing!! A couple of my friends were skateboarders. We all owned skateboards and that was definitely how we got into a lot of this stuff. We were a mish mash of Metal heads, skaters, straight edge, and just plain classic/ hard rock fans. Long Island rats!! Hope all is well!! Cheers!!!
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I was from D.C., but I remember when Uniform Choice played at the Hung Jury Pub. Remember seeing Cro Mags on AOQ tour at the 9:30 Club. Youth of Today opening for 7 Seconds when they just had their 7" record out, Warzone, Slapshot, Kraut, Bad Brains, Bold, G Biscuits, and Side By Side at the Anthrax in Connecticut, D.R.I and C.O.C. multiple times, Kraut, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, MOD, Angry Samoans, FANG, MDC, Black Flag, Circle Jerks ,GBH,Exploited ,G.I. Suicidal more times than I can remember, Verbal Abuse, Jerrys Kids Agnostic front on their UNITY 85 tour when Frenchie roadied for them, Adolescents with Gang Green and Dr. Know opening for them, oh yes Chris Notaro from Krackdown and later CRUMBSUCKERS was the one who really got me into h.c. in late 1982. My first show was Negative Approach in Richmond Va. when they played on their Tied Down tour in 1983. This doesn't even scratch the surface on how many great shows I went to back in the day..Ive just forgotten most of them with the haze of time.. Look at the linear note/ lyric sheet of the t shirt your wearing, Im listed in there "Tyler in D.C."
Fantastic stories Tyler! You were really there!! Must be great to think of all the rock n roll history you witnessed! So many good bands!! I missed all this stuff! I wasn’t old enough or hip enough to see those shows! Good for you!! Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences in the comments!! Very much appreciated and respected!! Have a good one!! Cheers, Jon
Outstanding commentary, I got into NYHC much later in my punk journey. This put the timelines together really well for us not from the scene! 👊🏻
Hey Snotty! Thanks for watching!! Appreciate it! Glad you dug this one! If I recall, I made a few mistakes on which pressings I had.. Cool you got into NYHC!! What a great little era of music! Wish I appreciated it more back then.
Have a good one!! Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom Same here, metal head that latched onto SoCal hardcore and hit the NYHC scene late.
@Ctrl-alt-destroy73 cool back story!! I’ve got a soft spot for 80s metal heads! Haha! Cheers brother!!
Great Collection!
Thanks!! Appreciate you watching!! Cheers, Jon
They'd beat people for gloves.
Ohh. Lol. Incredible collection. Looke like what mine need to looks like
Thanks for watching! Appreciate it!! Not so much getting beat up for gloves but getting knocked down a few pegs for being a fake. Have a good one, Jon
LOVE that Murphy’s Law!
Thanks for watching Jenny!! Cheers!!
Great hearing about the young 80s metalhead infiltrating the NYC hardcore scene using adaptive stealth technology aka a DRI t-shirt. LEEWAY is one of the few I know of these. I went to a bunch of hardcore shows in Cardiff when I was a lad, I wasn't so much into the music as my friends were but loved the energy of the shows. Great video Jon!
Hi Andy! Exactly!! It wasn’t as much about the music, but more about the excitement and being with my friends in a dangerous place! I was a bit of a weirdo cause I like too many different genres back then. Sisters of Mercy, Stray Cats, Ramones and Jesus and Mary Chain were some of my favorite bands. I would get grief from the metal heads too. I almost got beat up at a Slayer show for wearing a Ramones shirt. Crazy times. Thanks for watching!! Cheers!!
Power trip is a great ludichrist album. Give it another listen.
I will do that! Thanks for watching!! Jon
Hey brother! To let you know, I just spun Powertrip. Yeah, pretty good. Straight up legit crossover thrash. Besides This Party Sucks, which was a fun song, the songs weren’t as memorable and funny as the first lp, but they were aggressive and solid. Good listen, good record! Thanks for telling me to give it another chance!! Cheers, Jon
Great video ! Cheers from France
Merci Jules!! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!! I appreciate it! You take care, Jon
Quality stuff brother! Some great stuff and superb stories! Thank you for sharing from here in the UK👌
Hi Kelvin, I can’t say it’s all quality stuff, but it was a moment in time anyway. Thanks for watching!!! Appreciated!! Cheers, Jon
That Revelation comp is a classic! I saw one of Gorilla Biscuits last gigs at Club Babyhead in Providence, only cuz my buddy’s band was in one of the openers. Wrecking Crew! I’ve got a split 7” with them and Sam Black Church on the other side. You’re bringing back so many great memories with this vid, Jon. I saw so many hardcore shows in Boston in the 90’s, and Murphy’s Law was often the headliner, even though they were a NYHC band. Killer records, man! I’ve got a bunch of em too. I saw 24-7 Spyz with Bad Brains somewhere. Awesome video. Thanks, Jon!
Btw, The Penalty Box across from the old Garden is where I played my first real club gig ever. We were all like 16, and the club was pissed. lol
@@NickP333 thanks for watching Nick! Lots of good memories from those days. Being young, it was a wild frontier of underground music! Yeah the Penalty Box was a right old dump! I played a few shows there later on. The upstairs room was called something different by then. Can’t remember the name off hand. Have a great day!! Cheers, Jon
Some crucial stuff right there!
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it!! Cheers, Jon
oldskulbaby-warzone the sound of revolution very cool post ,cheers sir
Thank you for watching!!! I appreciate it!! FYI, I think I showed the 1988 pressing of Don’t forget the Struggle, not the first pressing as I stated. A few mistakes on here. But Warzone were definitely cool!! Sorry for late reply! Have a great weekend! Jon
86 - 89, good years. I grew up on the Island, moved to the city in '86. THE WAY IT IS!!!!! Trip 6! My vinyl debut ;-)
Wow! That’s awesome! You are part of Hardcore history! If you had to pick one compilation to be on, you picked the best one (In my opinion of course)! I don’t think I ever saw your band. I didn’t see a ton of those shows, but I certainly remember the Trip 6 name around!
Thank you for watching! Much appreciated! Forgive any mistakes or omissions I made in this video. Haha!
Have a great holiday! Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom Cheers buddy! Trip 6 was fun, we opened for AF a couple times, never left NYC. Those guys were the Psychos first, absolute scene legends. I played in a couple other bands you've definitely seen or heard of, was very lucky to have played with some real life legends. Too much of a drunk to ever get anywhere before getting fired but hey, at least I can say I was there. And have some great memories, and a couple photos and albums to show for it.
Thanks for putting this stuff out! This is American music history.
Have a great holiday my friend!
@@KMc-cw3qt you are on point K Mc when you call it American music history!! Hardcore, punk, rockabilly, garage, blues etc is the real stuff! For the people and by the people! The rejects, rebels and losers of society! Haha! Appreciate your comments! Cheers!
Awesome you have a poster of the Mc5 show I was at.
Awesome you were at that show!! Thanks for watching!! Cheers!!
Awesome video, brings back a lot of memories. I got into NYHC right after you moved on. I was more into the crossover bands which is what led me to the NYHC bands. Loved Gorilla Biscuits, Cro-Mags, early Biohazard. I got into Madball a little later, late 90s. I had a friend from New York that had a connection with someone from the band...a brother or cousin or something, and he gave me a bunch of their albums. There was a pretty good sized straight edge scene in Phoenix when I was into HC that worshipped at the alter of Youth of Today. I remember going to a show that featured a friends band Windigo Psychosis that was headlined by a big straight edge band from NY or DC and me an my buddies about started a riot. We were smoking weed a cigarettes and the straight edge cats in the crowd weren't having it....good times.
Haha Steve!!! I laughed hard at your last lines!! “Good Times!” That about sums it all up!! I was never a true hardcore guy, but I did like it. I was definitely more into crossover like SOD and Suicidal. But I also liked the Ramones and The Rolling Stones and of course metal. When you were into that music, the shows were probably even more violent than when I was there. I was mellowing out by the 90s. But hardcore music was a great experience for a lot young guys. Loved the excitement and energy! Great that you saw the classic bands still in their heyday!!! Thanks for watching Steve!! I appreciate you stopping by!!! Hope all is well! Cheers, Jon
Great collection man!!! All classics. That first pressing of Age of Quarrel is awesome. I’ve been wanting one of those forever
Thanks for watching Kenny!! Only recently found your channel, been digging it!! You got some great stuff!! I think I’m wrong on the Cromags. I think the censored version was first and mine is a second pressing. Both are from 1986 either way. Cheers!!
@@bipbopboom thanks man! Looking forward to more of your videos. First press or not the Cro Mags rule!
Awesome collection! All those NYHC records you have are classics and go high on ebay and discogs these days. I wish i had those og presses. That Life's Blood you have is a reissue that came out maybe in 91 or 92 on Vermiform Records. I have that one. I think the original press came out in 88 on Combined Effort Records. That Life's Blood is 🔥🔥🔥
Hey Hank! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!! Much appreciated!! Yeah, I wish I had kept all of the records and tapes I had. Oh well. Life’s Blood is pretty cool. I just picked up a bootleg album of Straight Ahead, their ep and some demos. Another blast from the past. Have a great day! Jon
Hey Bip! Pyramid Club, yes!! My favorite club ever. I just saw a few days ago they are closing their doors for good due to Covid struggles. 😔 So sad. I had one of the most fun nights of my life there. It will be missed. Anyway, nice video & love the outfit! See ya around. 👋🏼😎
Hey Mayhem!! Thanks for stopping by!! To be honest I think I only went to the Pyramid club once. I had no idea it still even existed. Too bad it’s closing! They used to get all the goth/ new wave shows in the 80s. Lot of good bands played there, but I was too young to go. Glad you got to see it!! Cheers!!!!
@@bipbopboom Only one time for me also, about 10 years ago, no bands there but the DJ was terrific. They threw a great 80s night, had a blast. I would have killed to be of age when all that was going down. 😁
Live those Warzone albums. Had someone ask me once why I listen to racists (based on the cover) and I replied "you should listen to the lyrics". Love the focus on that scene. I often think about rearranging my records by geography... but the feeling passes.
Cheers! Tom
Hey Tom, thanks for watching!! People are gonna put down a band that upsets them or they don’t understand regardless of the reason. If it wasn’t the album cover, then it’s the haircut, or the lyrics, or the lack of musicianship etc etc. As you probably know, racism had no place in the scene that I ever saw. At least not in New York. Other parts of the country can’t speak of. We were there to escape school and parents and to see some wild shows. Hope all is good!! Cheers!!!
I had Sick of it all, Cro mags, I got into some of the ( what we called) posi-core Gorilla Buscuits, Insted and Uniform Choice, and some random Straight Edge comps can’t remember any of those kind of like you said with some
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It’s funny cause I know all the bands now after 30 years, but when the scene was actually going on, I didn’t know half the bands that played nor heard them on record. Same with most shows, you went to see the headliners. I saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers open for Fishbone. Never heard of them before. Thanks for watching Shawn!! Appreciate it!! Cheers!!
Great vid as always herd of some of them bands we had the same scene was amazing
Hey Steve!!!! Yeah there was probably a scene in every city! It was a lot fun back then!! Thanks for watching!!! Cheers!!
Ive been waiting for you to show these type of records, I knew you had to have some. I never checked out Leeway, I always thought they were a hair metal band-think cause of thier name. Now that I know they are a killer band, Ill probably never find the records. Ive never liked Murphys Law either, I have a old skin friend that was heavy into them in the early 90s but I couldnt stand them. I dig Ludichrist, I just got the FOAD record with the demos and other stuff.
Hey Chris, thanks for watching!!! Yeah Leeway’s first record is good. I don’t know how well a lot of these records hold up these days. A lot of them were just meant for that moment in time. I can tell you with certainty that the first Murphy’s Law record is a classic and was well loved. But 35 years later and out of context it might not seem too sophisticated or heavy enough. Murphy’s Law were the most entertaining of all the NYHC bands and Jimmy was/is a master frontman. If you were in the middle of a Murphy’s Law gig in the 80s with a beer ball being passed around while 150 kids are bouncing off the walls and singing along to Crucial BBQ, you’d see what the record was about. Although a lot of the other records here I’m not gonna heap as much praise on. Hope you’re doing well!!! Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom Im doing good, I know Murphys Law has gotten a lot of praise over the years and I can see how If I had seen them I might of liked them more.
I love those agnostic front Albums. I was a little older than you. I saw Agnostic front and they mentioned Deborah from devil doll production. She booked the hardcore shows in New Orleans.
Thanks Sak!!! I really don’t listen to much of this stuff anymore, but Agnostic Front were the best of that batch musically for sure!! Great live band!! Cheers, Jon
@@bipbopboom I'm talking about 20 years ago. When I worked the door at the dixie tavern which was big for the late 90 new Orleans hardcore scene.
@@sakblabbath3715 cool!!! I knew you weren’t talking recent stuff. I figured Deborah was someone from back in the day. We’re all old these days!! Ha!! Hope you’re doing well!!! Cheers brother!!!
Hey Jon, killer stuff man , I was not into hardcore but knew the names of bands. they would play small places in Chicago so I never made it out there.
Thanks for watching Vance!! There was probably a scene in every city those years!! Lots of good times!! Cheers!!!
Great video and awesome records. I’m actually gonna see Youth of Today and Side by Side in April. P.S I’m from California so Unjform Choice in the background is the best 😂
Thank you for watching!! I appreciate it! Very cool you’re gonna see YOT!! I saw footage of them recently and they looked like they put on a good show! Have fun! Cheers, Jon
You are bringing back a lot of memories Jon. I love that Cro-Mags first album Age Of Quarrel. I saw them with Sam Black Church at the Channel. When you showed the Free For All album I remembered the band Wrecking Crew. Funny you showed it because I am almost 95% positive that they were on the same bill as Cro-Mags and Sam Black Church at the channel. I kind of remember seeing them. I think the band Youth Of Today are still out there shaking it up. Smashing video Jon. Your collection tell a tale about your punk and what it meant to you. You collected it, you lived it and you loved it. Remember Cantones?
Rob/Boston
Thanks for watching Rob! Like you, I saw some hardcore shows and had great fun, but always loved all sorts of Rock n Roll at the same time. The 80s were a great time for music. Wish I could’ve seen more from that decade as I only caught the tail end. The first Boston show I ever saw was the Bad Brains at the Channel in ‘89. I know of Cantones and heard stories but it was before my time. Happy Easter!! Cheers!
I met Todd youth when he was playing with Bloodcot some years ago. Nice guy RIP
Very cool!! Cheers, Jon
I didn't expect to see YoT, much less Bold or Supertouch in your collection by assuming you are just one more thrash / crossover guy, WHICH IM GLAD TO SEE because most people stick with crossover bands and ignore or despises others like Bold, Supertouch, Burn, Shelter, which seems a shame to me because they are very good post-hc bands. I congratulate you, you have almost all classic recordings of labels that are historical today such as Revelation, Combat Core, Caroline, the first of Victory, even those of Profile Records (curious for a rap label at that time). I mention a few so as not to forget Killing Time- Brightside, Leeway - Desperate Measures, Burn, The Icemen, Madball .. great collection, I envy you!
Dario, thank you for watching!! Much appreciated! I’m glad you dug this one. I am no expert by any means and am missing quite a few important records. But that’s how it was, we didn’t have a ton of money and there was so many other records to buy besides hardcore back then. I wish I could go back and pay better attention to the bands I saw and bought more records. Oh well. We took everything for granted. There was great music everywhere in the 80s. I am glad I have some memories and some souvenirs from a small but important era in rock n roll history. Have a great day!! Jon
Dude your channel is killer I was watching Jason Skillz live stream Friday and was digging all the great stories you shared Man you have killer taste in music and your collection is absolutely amazing! Wow some really great stuff here Love that Crumbsucker T-shirt We used to wear our sleeveless denim jackets over our leather jackets Haha! Don’t know why but we thought that looked cool I guess! We were into Metal I am a huge fan of the channel Keep rocking Man! Peace ☮️✌️👽🤘☮️
Brian, so sorry not to respond to this 5 months ago. Just found this comment glad you enjoyed the video! Always enjoy your vids even if I don’t comment on every one. Keep up the great work!! Hope you’re doing well! Have a great Sunday! Jon
@@bipbopboom Haha no worries John! Man that was after I first discovered your killer channel! And we’ re both still going strong! Peace ☮️✌️👽🤘☮️
Love these. Got that Murohy's Law record on import back in the day. Crumbsuckers & Agnostic Front got domestic releases here (UK). Will check out the others.
Hey Colston!!! Thanks for watching!!!! I think you probably got the best three already. I can’t really vouch for the other records too much, besides the first comp that was showed. Most of these I haven’t listened to in many years and they’re more nostalgic period pieces than great music records, that makes sense. They’re cool to look at and sample anyway. Hope you’re doing well!!! Cheers, Jon
Hey Jon. Cool stuff. I can remember back in the early and mid 80s, my friends and I would head into the city to see punk shows that were often 5 bands for $5 or 7 bands for $7. Saw great bands like DOA, SNFU, The Mother F*ckers, Big House, Dayglo Abortions and The Ripcordz. Good times! Take care and Happy Easter. Cheers!
Hey Chris!! Sounds like you saw some great bands!! I’ve seen DOA a few times but much later on. SNFU and Dayglo’s had some great records too! There was just too much great music in the 80s!!!! I think of all the shows I missed and bands I hadn’t yet heard of. Thanks for watching!! Have a great day!!! Cheers!!
I would have loved to have been in the NY Hardcore scene back in the 80's early 90's. My favourite bands were Agnostic Front, Madball, Sick Of It All, Murphy's Law and Biohazard. We have a bar where I live called Murphy's Law that I saw a Murphy's Law cover band play once. My god it was a hot sweaty night full of testosterone and body odour. Almost got a broken nose in the pit. I always love your stories and thoughts brother
Hey Nathan!!! It was a cool scene to see, but looking back, it was pretty dangerous and scary too. Not only in the pit, but also on the streets and subway stations back then. For me it wasn’t so much about the music, but the excitement of these shows and being with my friends . I think the bands you like were the best of the bunch. There was a lot of lesser bands and after awhile I couldn’t tell them apart. It wasn’t really my scene, but enjoyed the shows. Really appreciate you stopping by!!! Take care, Jon
# Much Respects 12/2021 #
Thanks brother!! Appreciate you stopping by!! Jon
Happy Easter I bought a car from a Skin head. From back in the day He called it the Nazi staff car, Rough crowd They had a truce with the Metal heads
Edd, luckily we didn’t have those kinds of skins in NY. It was dangerous enough without those guys. I don’t think racists would’ve lasted too long in NYC. You say the wrong thing then someone’s gonna belt you. Cheers!!!
Nazi’s would get there asses stomped out in NYC back in those days.
We were skinheads from all backgrounds and races.
United as one!
SHARP!
How in the world did you manage to keep all the goodies from a rough and tumble punker lifestyle Jon? I never thought to save anything, just move on to the next good time. Make new memories was my moniker... I do wish I'd of given it a little more thought though and kept some keepsakes instead of giving them all away. I don't know, that kinda stuffs just not that important to me and never was I guess... Cheers.
Bobby I was no rough punker that’s for sure. Just a kid who likes different kinds of rock n roll. Bobby I didn’t have too much stuff to save. All my money went to records or shows. Luckily I kept most of my records and they’re not too beat up. Cheers!!!!
I had no idea they wore work gloves to shows. I have some NYHC albums but I never related to them. It seemed like a lot of them lived in squats. Something that seemed kind of hippish to me. I always assumed they didn't work either and as someone that always worked I didn't relate. I wasn't straight edge either. I used to party but it never interfered with my job.
Don’t let me give you the wrong impression. Everybody worked back then. There was only a small faction of the toughest of the tough that were on the streets. There was no sentiment for hippies or lazy seventies punk in this scene.it was pretty mandatory that you worked as soon as you turned 15 in working class New York no matter what kind of music you were into. The straight edge thing was overblown. The only reason most straight edgers were straight was because they were too young to drink legally. Musically east coast hardcore is not my favorite but it was a wonderful dangerous place to enter into as a kid. We didn’t have to option of seeing the Adolescents or D.I or the west coast bands very often. And I was still pretty young still. Thanks for watching!!! Cheers
@@bipbopboom You didn’t give me the wrong impression at all. I’ve just seen interviews with band members and other people from the NY scene and they quite often talk about living in squats. I’ve seen interviews with dudes from Long Island and the other boroughs of NY and they seem more relatable. I was joking about the hippy shit. I know it was tough living on the streets of NY but when you hear dudes talking about living in squats I’m always thinking get a job. NYHC is not my favorite Punk either and honestly by late 80’s I wasn’t going to shows. I was a lot older than most going to Hardcore shows.
@@vinylrichie007 yeah Richie, it’s probably the same with California. Not every punk was living like in the movie Suburbia either. Most people had jobs, homes and curfews. Make no mistake this video was about hardcore, but it wasn’t the major part of my life. I was getting into the Stones, Sisters of mercy, Killing Joke and Velvet Underground at the same time this was going on. Jack of all trades, master of none. Cheers!!!
@@bipbopboom I used to have a hand silk screened Wall Of Voodoo shirt. Lino Lousy, a friend, asked me “Do you like those guy.” He couldn’t get that there was more to music than hardcore.
Any of those for sale?
Sorry brother, I don’t sell records. Thanks for watching! Appreciate it! Jon
Gonna check this Punk albums out! :)
I need to learn and listen to new stuff.
I have a contest out now. Hope to see you there! :D
Thanks for watching!!! Cheers!!
Sick of it all
Thanks for watching!! Appreciate it! Jon
i own that 45 by The Equals
Awesome! Thanks for stopping by Michael!! Cheers, Jon
If you were at all into skate culture some of these records filtered to you, despite not being in the city. I was a fat kid who couldn't skate, but my brother was a skater, so I have some distant knowledge from that. That sure did look like Pilgrim State.
Thanks watching for Kris!! Yeah I completely forgot about the skate thing!! A couple of my friends were skateboarders. We all owned skateboards and that was definitely how we got into a lot of this stuff. We were a mish mash of Metal heads, skaters, straight edge, and just plain classic/ hard rock fans. Long Island rats!! Hope all is well!! Cheers!!!
I found your channel and it seems cool so far and btw I make my own synth music and videos trying to help others :D hope to see you join my kind fun community the sinners! keep doing what you enjoy bruh
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Cheers!