yet another reunion... BOLD!

BDx13 - 3-25-2005 at 02:31 AM

Revelation Records old schoolers BOLD have reunited. This will be more than a few one-off shows as the band plans on continuing to play out and has tenative plans to write and record a new album. BOLD's first shows since 1989 are in the works.

4/16 Philadelphia PA @ The Church
4/17 New York NY @ CBGBs

I'm there!

moron - 3-25-2005 at 09:45 AM

amazing. I wonder why they decided to get back together.

MyOwnWay - 3-25-2005 at 12:19 PM

Damn Duane, I didnt hear about the one in Philly. I just checked R5's site and saw nothing about it. How do you get tickets for it?

BDx13 - 3-25-2005 at 01:26 PM

i think the dates are still tentative, but i read about them on a few sites.... punknews.org, scenepointblank.com & hardcorewebsite.net

gavin - 3-25-2005 at 02:26 PM

the philly date is set.
and i hate bold
just so youzzz know

todd, where are ya?
back me up on this one yo

TTF - 3-25-2005 at 07:43 PM

Yeah, that's what the world needs, another mediocre hardcore band that the years have been too kind too. Fuck this nostalgia bullshit. The "good old days" were not that fucking good and there is no justification on this earth why a bunch of hacks like Crippled Youth, oops, I mean Bold, should reform. It was bands like this that made the good old days suck in the first place.

BAH!

BDx13 - 3-26-2005 at 07:35 AM

I'm going to sing along to "NAILED TO THE X". maybe i'll get that as my sXe tattoo.

MyOwnWay - 3-26-2005 at 11:08 AM

I think its good they are reuniting and putting out new music. A lot of bands today suck. I'll take all the bands (my age now) and bring them back. There arent many bands out there now that do hardcore the way I like. Granted I wasnt a huge BOLD fan, but 'wise up' is a great track. I'd like to see some of the older hardcore comeback. Sick of it all are still going strong as well as slapshot and madball but overall hardcore is losing something over the years. If it takes the "old guys" to bring it all back why the fuck not.

TTF - 3-26-2005 at 11:53 AM

I love the old bands too, older than bold/crippled youth and their ilk. The nostalgic part of me would love to see a Negative Approach reunion, or Articles of Faith, or a handful of other really great bands from those days, but to be satisfied with the mediocrity of a band like bold ( Ialmost can't say the name with a straight face) is a sad commentary on the state of hardcore.

To me this music was always about looking forward and the whole nostalgia trip doesn't make sense to me. I don't begrudge bands like Killing Time and Uppercut another shot at the stage, they were great bands back then and maybe they'll still have the spark that made them so great. It just seems a dangerous path to trod in always wishing for the good old days because if you were there you have to stop idealizing them and remember that for every band like Kiling Time or Burn or Sheer Terror you typically had to sit through 4 or 5 really mindnumbingly mediocre bands that made you want to cut off your ears.

I even feel kind of weird posting on this board and I think I do because I've known Big Duane for a long time and I'm a big fan of MrBadVibes and a few other cool dudes on this forum. My "hardcore" days, in the strictly musical sense, have long past, but the things that really matter from those days, the work ethic, self respect, and my own very personal code of ethics are still going strong. Why do you think I play in a band that for 15 years has attracted only a small handfull of fanatics, why do you think we've had the oportunity to sign to some of the bigger labels in the past and told them to take a walk because they wanted us to compromise our sound (shorten songs, stop screaming so much), and why, after 15 years are we still fronting the bulk of the money to record and put out our records? Because we're hardcore.

I couldn't go on Headbangers Ball, if given the invite, and pretend that I relate to Jamie Jasta, I can't line Tony Brummel's pockets with my hard work, and I can't pretend to like bands that I don't because it will help my band get ahead. Here's a funny one for you...

Back when Victory records was first getting started, in the early 90's, my brother lived in Chicago and I contacted Mr. Brummel about maybe releasing a Starkweather album. I had my brother, who was living in Chicago at the time, go and drop him off a nice package with our first albujm, a shirt and a bunch of other crap. When I spoke to him after that he very politely but firmly told me that we were too metal and that he was a hardcore label. Now it's 2005 and that guy has foisted more mediocre "metal" on the world than any single person I can think of. Does he have some good bands? Yeah, I like All Out War (RIP) and Premonitions of War, and a few other things but god almighty, watching Headbangers Ball is like a 2 hour Victory commercial. That shit means nothing to me.

Sorry for the rant but I just think that alot of what made hardcore 'hardcore' to me is no longer around.

gavin - 3-26-2005 at 01:38 PM

todd rules
youzzz need to listen up and learn a few things from him

Discipline - 3-26-2005 at 01:55 PM

Too many damn reunions these days. Call me when Negative Approach comes back.

gavin - 3-26-2005 at 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Discipline
Too many damn reunions these days. Call me when Negative Approach comes back.

exactly
i saw brannons new band "easy action" like 5 times and ever time they do 3 or 4 negative approach songs and it is the greatest thing ever
that last time they did tied down, nothing and dead stop
i almost shit
to see him sing those songs was awesome

clevohardcore - 3-26-2005 at 05:10 PM

the philly date is set.
and i hate bold
just so youzzz know

HOW IN THE FUCK DO YOU HATE BOLD???

That band was all about being great for that first record. Loud, fast, pissed, and simple. Great hardcore record.

Looking back well thats a different story.

gavin - 3-26-2005 at 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by clevohardcore
the philly date is set.
and i hate bold
just so youzzz know

HOW IN THE FUCK DO YOU HATE BOLD???

That band was all about being great for that first record. Loud, fast, pissed, and simple. Great hardcore record.

Looking back well thats a different story.

that shit was fake pissed.
nailed to the X is LAME
that posi shit was and still is weak
im about real shit like sheer terror and life's blood and negative approach and shit that aint nice at all
i hate nice

TTF - 3-26-2005 at 07:00 PM

Maybe knowing where the guys were from ("K-town" which is Katonah, NY, a very posh NYC suburb made it just a little bit hard to take while I was homeless in Philly or surviving on one snickers bar per day. I'm 6 feet tall and at my worst I weighed 145 fucking pounds, I looked like fucking Kate Moss with a shaved head. I also remember that even back then I had taste when it came to music, which would automatically rule out the horseshit they were shovelling. I remember the crippled youth ep/bold albums being really poorly played, and not in an aggro, we don't give a fuck kind of way, but in a, 'man, how are we gonna fit all our nice new equipment into Ray Cappos station wagon' kind of way.

Liking or disliking all of the posi shit is just a matter of perspective and yeah, I tried to relate to it, tried to be positive. Fuck, I still have that YOT vinyl shit sitting in my closet, but at the end of the day, with my view on life, trying tolike that was as phony and hopeless as Vanilla Ice trying to be hip hop. When I met Rennie in the late 80's, his first question to me was 'have you heard Sheer Terror?'. No finer words were ever spoken.

That shit made sense to me and not because I grew up blue collar, my dad worked for IBM, but by that point I'd managed to dump my life in the gutter and the negative bands made more sense to me. The one positive band that I listened to everyday on my headphones when I was homeless, and who I'll listen to until they shovel dirt on me, is the Bad Brains. There was some suffering that came with that positivity and I have all the respect in the world for that. 'Physically strong, morally straight, positive youth, we're the youth of today' sounds to me like one of Adolphs Hitler Youth tunes. Physically broken, petty thief, mysoginist, misanthrope, I'm the youth of today- that woulda made sense.

MyOwnWay - 3-26-2005 at 11:25 PM

I do not agree with your outlooks on hardcore and the reunions, but I do respect your opinions. I will say why I am so into the reunions (or comebacks) is that the bands when they were "new" said something I could relate. They were my age, going thru my problems, and gave me that glimmer of hope to make my own way (pun intended). So now, I'm older and so are the bands. Now that they are coming around, perhaps they will sing about things that are different for them, like my life. I'm better off now, but I still go thru some real shit. Their opinions still matter to me. Those songs were like a friend giving good advice.

TTF - 3-26-2005 at 11:58 PM

HOW IN THE FUCK DO YOU HATE BOLD???

There's not enough time in the day.

I surrender. Bold=Excellent. Ray Cappo>Dalai Llama. Uniform Choice>Sheer Terror. MrBadVibes and Todd=BadBadBad.

gavin - 3-27-2005 at 12:14 AM

see............
bold, ray crappo, all that shit was not hardcore to me.
i dont know what it was and i dont wanna know.
they were just jocks pretending and im having none of that
paul bearer, john brannon, dudes like that were hardcore.
pissed off, ugly, and not nice about it.
skinhead roots instead of football jock roots.
punk rock roots instead of frat boy roots.
youzz dig?

TTF - 3-27-2005 at 12:46 AM

I'm trying to think of some other old school motherfuckers besides Brannon, Bearer, and Gerry A, the holy trinity of hardcore singers. I may have to go crawl into my closet and look at my collection to see. Antidote, Iron Cross, SSD (Get It Away), old Gang Green, Jerrys Kids, Poison Idea, Deadguy, SOA, RKL, Sham 69, Cockney Rejects, The Catatonics, Adolescents, The Amebix, The Freeze, The Mob, and Lifesblood. That's it for my 7" collection anyway. That's a good start for bands that don't suck. Any one of these bands, on their worst day, had more heart and ferocity than crippled youth, gorilla biscuits, or any turd that cappo played in.