Originally posted by Mickey
Quote: | Originally posted by dirtysteve
Quote: | Originally posted by Mark Lind
Quote: | Originally posted by mattybar
They've never been a hardcore band in my opinion, just a metal band who knew how to manipulate their underground roots for commercial gain.
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I agree with that statement to some degree. I don't know how it was in the areas where you guys are from but I really can't think of another band off
the top of my head that made such a large and immediate impact on the hardcore scene. Here in Boston everyone wanted to be them or be like them and it
went on for years. I really don't know how to define "hardcore" but I'd say they had a huge impact on it. |
what years are you talking about in boston specifically? all of the bands they have influenced like cold world are fucking horrible. if you are
talking about tree and sam black church and that era in boston, i could see the influence, but again , those bands were pretty much shit.
| in the early 90's it seemed every band in Boston was trying to be a biohazard clone. Bzrker, Bricklayer,
democracide, reason enough, brawlpark, high defiance, stompbox, and converge's first couple of shows I remember thinking it was another Bio clone. BFB
definitely drew some influence from them and that's why Billy was top of the list to fill rob's spot. Everyone wanted to be a toughguy and you always
heard "when your in fuckin (insert shitty small town) you bes watch your back". I loved early biohazard but thought they were a little corney and
tried too hard to portray the toughguy image. At a show at the paradise a fight broke out and Evan yelled "yo, you wanna fight, come up here and fight
us". When a well known crew of guys started climbing the stage he backpedaled saying "nah its cool, no problems, didn't realize it was you". That was
the problem with their whole crowd. They wanted to be toughguys until the real toughguys showed up. |