Strange origins

Discipline - 6-11-2006 at 10:58 AM

A buddy of mine was over the other day and I was listening to Drop Dead & Go To Hell by Sheer Terror. My friend isn't into hardcore at all and was curious to know how I could love a band whose singer berates the whole audience. His question to me was "where the hell do you find these fucking bands."

Strange thing is, I remember how I got into Sheer Terror. Back in like '93 or '94 I was watching Geraldo and he had a couple of nazi skins on the show and one of them was wearing a Sheer Terror shirt that looked really cool. A few days later I was in a record store and looked for anything by them and bought the Ugly & Proud album and fell in love with the band.

Anybody discover any of their favorite bands in an odd way?

JawnDiablo - 6-11-2006 at 02:13 PM

punch that friend in the mouth and say it was from me.

DaveMoral - 6-12-2006 at 05:34 PM

I discovered Anthrax because I bought Public Enemy's "Apocalypse '91 - The Enemy Strikes Black" and that has the Bring The Noise with Anthrax on it. I think I may have gotten into Biohazard because of the shit they did with Onyx. God I had some rap days back in like... 5th or 6th grade.

First got interested in Slayer because this chick at school would sport a Slayer shirt every once in a while... she was supposedly a "witch."

Because of where I grew up my choices on hardcore weren't too wide and I ended up buying just about anything that caught my interest on Victory Recs back in late 97 early 98. Fortunately my local record store carried not just Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Strife and Hatebreed, but also Warzone and Cause For Alarm. Plus I was into AF because I saw them in a thanks list on a Rancid record. Which led me to Madball. Sometimes I'd pick shit up just cause it "looked" hardcore... luckily my instincts were good.

crazyfists28 - 6-12-2006 at 07:59 PM

i saw some of the life of agony guys on the court tv channel cuz of someone being killed at their show and took it from there. saw an ad in a magazine for their album ugly, went christmas shopping and couldnt find it so i got all they had in stock and that was river runs red and that turned out to be the most fortunate of album finds for me

defstarsteve - 6-13-2006 at 12:32 AM

thrasher magazine ruined/saved my life....
from there it was connect the dots

JawnDiablo - 6-13-2006 at 07:20 AM

the Balcony at 69th and market streets in upper darby did it for me. the coolest store in suburbia in the mid 80s....you didn't need to hop the EL to go down to South Street.

BKT - 6-13-2006 at 11:57 AM

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Originally posted by defstarsteve
thrasher magazine ruined/saved my life....
from there it was connect the dots

hahah same here. Was reading that mag when I was like 7 years old, rolling around on my skateboard and loving the misfits and any other shit that was making my poor parents crazy.

MM.

gavin - 6-13-2006 at 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by juandiablo
the Balcony at 69th and market streets in upper darby did it for me. the coolest store in suburbia in the mid 80s....you didn't need to hop the EL to go down to South Street.

oh man
venom backpatches for me
7th grade

beaner - 6-13-2006 at 01:29 PM

im still a big fan of ice-t and got into bodycount cuz of the tune he did with them on his og album. ice-t still has a special place in my heart. mutha fuckaz......etc

barc0debaby - 6-13-2006 at 04:15 PM

Thats not my job asshole.....right now my job is eating this donuts, or maybe. Hey wait a minute aren't you....

Thrasher popped my cherry aswell.

gavin - 6-13-2006 at 04:48 PM

when i got into 9th grade i met a guy named jamie
he was a punk rock dude who was also the first skinhead i ever knew
we would talk in study hall
i was into slayer and whatnot
he said "hey, check this shit out"
it was a tape of agnostic front on one side and the cro mags and bad brains on the other
that was it for me

i got into black flag and dead kennedys on my own about a year before that although i cant recall how i had heard about them

DaveMoral - 6-13-2006 at 06:02 PM

Study Hall and algebra was where I met one of the best friends I've ever had... Mike. Dude was straight edge and me and him hit it off one day after I'd come into school X'd up. After that we went to shows together, got introduced to what became another real good friend. Both of them ended up being in my first, and thus far last, band. Lots of good times with those dudes. Lots of punk and hardcore... Wish I was still kickin it with them to this day. I'll have to see if I can't look 'em up when I go back home in August.

XHonusWagnerX - 6-14-2006 at 07:08 AM

Not really odd at all, but I got into the Misfits because of Metallica and then started going backwards from there to get into Motorhead and some of the other 'new wave of British heavy metal' stuff.

Got into the Sex Pistols partially because Megadeth did a cover of 'Anarchy in the UK' and because at that point I was making friends with the punk/hardcore kids at school. This was probably 9th grade.

I was attracted to Black Flag cause they were 'punk' but didnt look the part the way the Sex Pistols did. I always had long hair and so did Henry for awhile so that apealed to me.

I got way into Slapshot because I loved Gorilla Biscuits and some other edge bands, but I wasnt vegan and didnt look like a Venice Beach body builder like Porcell so when I saw Slapshot looking all menacing and dirty, but being edge I was instantly hooked!

JawnDiablo - 6-14-2006 at 07:45 AM

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Originally posted by MrBadVibes
when i got into 9th grade i met a guy named jamie
he was a punk rock dude who was also the first skinhead i ever knew
we would talk in study hall
i was into slayer and whatnot
he said "hey, check this shit out"
it was a tape of agnostic front on one side and the cro mags and bad brains on the other
that was it for me

i got into black flag and dead kennedys on my own about a year before that although i cant recall how i had heard about them [/quo

there were actually a few cool cats in UD high, once you sorted through all the Adam Tareillas....

gavin - 6-14-2006 at 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by juandiablo

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adam tarella
oh man
that dude