7/25/2023 0 Comments Agnostic front sick of it allI thought that scene was great, but we didn’t know how to start our own label so we went with guys we trusted. When we signed with them, there was a backlash from some of the kids in the scene, the diehard "Do-It-Yourself” attitude. We were young kids, going to school and working, we wanted to get out on the road, so when they offered to sign us, we went for it. Howie and Steve Martin had started In-Effect Records. We had enough material, but we were waiting for them to put the GB album out. They wanted to put out our album, but they said we would have to wait because they had to do the Gorilla Biscuits album first. Lou: I think we met Howie Abrams through Craig and Danny Lilker. A lot of it had to do with just the momentum the hardcore scene had at the time. Everything happened so easily, the transition from being an amateur band to a band that could draw 500 people almost happened overnight. The first time we played a CBs matinee was crazy. There wasn’t any fighting, it was the coolest shit ever and I was sold on hardcore.Īrmand: The scene was growing rapidly. Everybody went crazy, but everybody was so cool. Everyone had a shaved head except for us we had long hair. My first matinee was Corrosion of Conformity, when they still had the singer from the Eye for an Eye album. We just went no matter what band was playing. All these random places would try to have hardcore shows. They asked us if we were going to the show we said “what show?’ The Cro-Mags were playing at a Jamaican disco. One day, we were walking in the city and ran into Danny Lilker (Nuclear Assault, Brutal Truth) and Craig (Setari). In those days, there was CBGBs for shows as well as places like The Subway in Queensborough Plaza. I used to go to every Murphy’s Law show I could. When we wrote “My Life’ we were trying to write a song like “Victim in Pain.” Then it was Cro-Mags and Murphy’s Law. That was the album that put New York on the map. I was especially influenced by Agnostic Front, my first hardcore record, aside from maybe The Exploited, was “Victim in Pain,” the gatefold on Rat Cage Records. I liked Generation X when I was younger, but it wasn’t brutal and heavy enough. Lou: When we were young, we were listening to the Sex Pistols and my older brother got us into the Plasmatics, then it was The Exploited. There were so many different bands that were all, in a way, iconic bands. This is the second installment in a three-part oral history of one of NYC's finest read Part I here.Īrmand: There was a real energy about the scene everyone was real excited about the new bands coming up and there were a lot of them: there was Underdog, Warzone, Cro-Mags and Agnostic Front had already become established. Noisey sat down with the band to discuss their long, colorful history as titans of the NYHC scene.
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