Favorite scene

Discipline - 7-1-2005 at 08:51 PM

The question of best band has been asked, but which scene does everybody prefer.

I gotta go with NYHC. Other towns have had good hc scenes, but I gotta go with NY.

What about everybody else? NY, Boston, DC, L.A., Detroit, etc.?

GabeTexasGAMC - 7-1-2005 at 10:26 PM

sorry dude... but the NYHC scene isnt all there now adays, after hearing about it for years, i got to expierence it.

I personally think TX is the shit.. Columbus is awesome, and BALTIMORE is fucking great!

BDx13 - 7-1-2005 at 10:47 PM

NYHC has a tremendous history that will never be forgotten, but it seems like most of our scene has fallen victim to gentrification or retirement. the downtrodden youth of today can no longer afford to hang out on the corner of 7th and A. this is really quite upsetting for me.

baltimore does sound awesome these days. of course, when i lived there 10-12 years ago it wasn't so great - all we had was Next Step Up and Torn Apart. at the time dc was the shit, though; we'd be at shows three nights a week. i need to get back down to bmore for a visit.

Discipline - 7-1-2005 at 11:22 PM

I don't necessarily mean current. I mean overall. Over the last 25 years. Overall, what's yer favorite.

Ben-G - 7-2-2005 at 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by GabeTexasGAMC
I personally think TX is the shit..

i second that.

Six66Mike - 7-2-2005 at 02:01 AM

SOHC! Southern Ontario is incredible. Toronto bands are amazing these days, St Catharines & Welland are just insane. Welland local shows draw a minimum 200 people every time. Its great.

Adelaide has a hot scene too, i fucking love shows here & the bands.

clevohardcore - 7-2-2005 at 07:44 AM

I got to go with GABE on this one. COLUMBUS is up their now a days. Cleveland never really was great.

JawnDiablo - 7-2-2005 at 07:52 AM

philly because we have the bad vibes.............
nah philly never had much of a "scene" to speak of,
but we have the bad vibes anyways and no other town can say that!

BDx13 - 7-2-2005 at 09:35 AM

you've got the philly dust crew...

JawnDiablo - 7-2-2005 at 03:41 PM

i smoked so much philly dust when i was a teenager that i should be the philly dust crew in myself...

tireironsaint - 7-2-2005 at 04:16 PM

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Originally posted by BIG DUANE
NYHC has a tremendous history that will never be forgotten, but it seems like most of our scene has fallen victim to gentrification or retirement. the downtrodden youth of today can no longer afford to hang out on the corner of 7th and A. this is really quite upsetting for me.

baltimore does sound awesome these days. of course, when i lived there 10-12 years ago it wasn't so great - all we had was Next Step Up and Torn Apart. at the time dc was the shit, though; we'd be at shows three nights a week. i need to get back down to bmore for a visit.

Y'know, that's right around the same time that I lived there, Duane. I wonder if I ever ran into you at a show or somethin'. I saw Next Step Up a few times and practically lived at Reptilian. I was workin' overnight in a 7-11 and about the only time I left the house during the day was to go to a record store or somethin'. I only lived there for a year and never really got to know anybody very well, so it's possible that we crossed paths back then.

As for the topic of this thread, I've always loved the old Boston scene. For a while in High School I became a fan of the NY thing and some of those bands still hold a place in my heart, but tons of 'em bore the shit outta me now.

Discipline - 7-2-2005 at 04:41 PM

The old Boston scene was fucking great. SSD, F.U.'s, Jerry's Kids, Negative FX, Gang Green, Slapshot, Bruisers, the list goes on. Even today with Blood For Blood, Ramallah, Colin Of Arabia, Cheech, Death Before Dishonor, great scene in Boston.

I look at NY though and think of AF, Cro-Mags, Murphy's Law, Reagan Youth, The Mob, SOIA, Madball, Sheer Terror, VOD, Neglect, Leeway, Skarhead, COT, American Standard, Warzone, Breakdown, Sworn Enemy, SFA, Life Of Agony, Biohazard, Krays, Killing Time, Underdog, Harley's War, Everybody Gets Hurt, Earth Crisis, 25 Ta Life, and about 1000 others that didn't pop into my head. Go back to the 70's and you had the Ramones, Dead Boys, Johnny Thunders, and a lot of other greats.

SAAAAARS - 7-2-2005 at 04:54 PM

i haven't been to very many places, which is hopefully going to change during the summer/year to come. i hate the city of boston, traveling there, the kids, etc, but i love the scene that they have.

JawnDiablo - 7-2-2005 at 08:21 PM

come to phila ..we have live 8..arent we cool.......

Ungodly - 7-4-2005 at 03:33 PM

I'm gonna stick with what's going on now, b/c it's many different questions when you consider what bands came out of where and what plakces were like in previous time periods.

I love Boston for the bands we have now and the ridiculous amount of shows. I also am amazed at how many awesome people I have met here too. I should seriously move but it's been hard just for those two reasons. The collective "scene" however, is just ok to decent, in spite of how good we have it. Lots of kids get jaded and don't come out. People can be a little uptight. Like anywhere else, too, people get factiony and social climby.

I've been to shows all over the country. There were alot of places I liked but I can't have gotten a full picture. I think my favorite place to see shows, though, is Providence. Unless lots of kids come from other places like Boston or CT, shows are smaller and always super chill and lots of fun with no fights and the crowds are always very diverse.

gavin - 7-4-2005 at 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by juandiablo
come to phila ..we have live 8..arent we cool.......

Discipline - 7-4-2005 at 04:37 PM

Fuck live 8. Seriously.

JawnDiablo - 7-4-2005 at 04:41 PM

it created a tremendous trash pile from what i saw on tv

Todd - 7-4-2005 at 05:10 PM

Philly is the WORST music scene I've ever been involved with. They've never supported the local bands, used out of town bands as a soundtrack to beat each other too, and the promoters, from alleged pedophiles to meth heads, have beeen horrible. There have been some great bands from Philly, too, most notably The She Males back in the old days and the Bad Vibes now. We haven't played our "hometown" in almost a decade. Fuck that place. Sorry MrBad, Juan Diablo, and godabandonedme. By the way Fuck Met, Fuck the Philly Dust Crew, Chord magazine, and Too Damn Hype.

ENDERA.x - 7-4-2005 at 11:19 PM

NYCHC has legends. I love just about every NYCHC band but they've all been around since at LEAST '95....
I'm not so sure about new shit from there?

Syracuse, Albany have produced some sweet bands

I'm usually down for anything NJ, and Detroit/Windsor has some great peepz n bands. Same goes for Boston.

EUROPE has most NA scenes beat even if they arent as large, I've still never seen so much dedication/heart and energy as from those bands and kids, anywhere.

-ps TEXAS has some great shit.