How Bad Brains created a new punk genre 

That's when I started too Met them at Lamours in NYC

That’s funny, I was also musically influenced by a high school Media Studies/Graphic Design teacher around 2004, but the Bad Brains lured me in. He was once in a punk band and rode a Harley to school every day which seemed like an ironic decision for this tall, soft spoken, pensive guy with fair features that all the girls had a crush on. One day I saw the Bad Brains self-titled album on his desk next to Purple Rain and a couple other CDs. Anyway, that contrast really influenced my mixtapes/mp3 filled CD-RWs and general taste in music. It may have even influenced my visual design choices throughout a design undergraduate program too, like the saying, contrast is the spice of life.

@@Thuja814 radical. Did you ever get into pushead? The artist??

Still have that yellow tape

That’s awesome!

That ROIR cassette was like a religious sacrament for my crew. We had different nationalities, ages, and levels of society but were united by our quest for sex, drugs, rock n roll and every other type of music that tickled our fancy. From Classical to Cumbia. None of us were punks but some of us liked the pistols, Devo, etc. Brains at CBGBs in 80, 81, was bonkers. The best live show ever. And they were super accessible. Darryl had a crush on a girl in our crew. She liked him too but she was in high school. We hung out backstage and watched HR talk smack in Jamaican patois. lol We thought he was the most. HR invited me and a buddy to the home of the Bad Brains. Some barren, huge warehouse in a busted part of Brooklyn. Bushwick I think. 80' or 81'? This neighborhood was the edge of nowhere. I'm born and raised in the hood but this seemed liked 3Xs that. HR got us so high on ganja. HIGH af!! They lived there with their rasta women who mostly kept out of view. He asked about our musical plans and we gave him half baked juvenile answers. Mostly he was a dude, a rock star older brother. Then it was time for practice. With few words and no fuss all 4 Bad Brains came together like Voltron in the practice area of the warehouse and and blew our minds playing songs, almost every one of them was new and all were AMAZING. Blew our brains 🧠 🧠 🙄🤪 !!! Phenom experience. Dave Dictor, from MDC, said it best, "Could of been the most important band." I'm reminded of another music hero of mine, Syd Barrett. Mental illness is really insidious, and the last people to recognize it and take appropriate action are other stoners. Anyways, Rock On!

Apartheid American Style?

Yes yes yes

Better than Sailin’ On? IDK

Big Takeover

Yes. It's the song where HR reaches the highest, vocally and emotionally, and succeeds.

The whole of I Against I though.

That’s awesome!

Thank you!

Super interesting perspective - thank you!

Check out Negro Terror, you would probably like them too

Thank you!

ps I've always heard ROIR pronounced as "roar" -

Totally fair

Black dots > roir s/t

That RISE album ain't bad. 3 Bad Brains and a stand in is head and shoulders above the rest.

I toured with Soul Brains during that era. From my personal experience, I saw HR exhibit severe social anxiety. If he was alone backstage or at the hotel with just the band around, he was very comfortable and at ease and conversational. However, when in public and surrounded by fans he would clam up. I feel this was because most fans treated him like a deity and it was uncomfortable for him to interact

Thanks!

Thank you!

That is such a vicious album, the hardcore right after the reggae......

That’s very nice - thank you!

Mental issues mixed with cluster headaches which is also called suicide disease. It's so painfully most people kill themselves

I agree. Chi pig of S.N.F.U. Would be a close 2nd!

Ajax! I have another one named Echo, a little calico who might be in past videos I dunno

That’s what I thought, but they called em water boards in the book 🤷‍♂️

Haha he is good at getting what he wants

Yeah but a lot of people listen to these instead of watching them so I figured I should spell it out so they didn’t get confused

@soundofhistory_ it's also known as the yellow tape..as there were a few releases in different colours..yellow one is the first one..I collect ROIR tapes.

I didn’t know that - sounds like a cool collection!

All sorts of stuff on that label..the tapes have been fun to chase but have gotten more difficult to find nowdays..from bad brains and germs to brother Bernard rocking the gospel ..suicide..sigue sigue Sputnik.. nico.. Johnny Thunders..etc etc..

Check out The Middle Class Out Of Vogue EP They were playing just as fast before BB

That is certainly a take.

@@johnchedsey1306 ya it’s a fact

No, it’s a take

@@kyleinnes4963 big facts

@@sawyer_Benton Big takes sunny

Then who did? I’d argue they have as much of a claim as anyone

@@soundofhistory_ Black Flag and The Middle Class were both before Black Dots was recorded..

Black Flag and Bad Brains were formed in the same year and released albums around the same time. The Middle Class formed later than both. But I think it’s fair to say they all had a hand in creating it

@@soundofhistory_ The question is Who invented a new genre. Nervous Breakdown EP was recorded in January 1978 and released February 1979. Out of Vogue EP was released in 1978. Black Dots demos were recorded in 1979 and released in 1996. Bad Brains were third on the hardcore tip.

Release date is only part of it. The bands didn’t have great distribution and there’s very little to say that too many people in DC had these west coast albums. I think Bad Brains created something that Black Flag was also creating on the other side of the country at he same time

People, including members of the band, say both

@@soundofhistory_ I've never seen any of their shirts or album covers say The Bad Brains...just saying 🤔

Talk to RU-vid’s copyright system, not me. Is this your first time on RU-vid?

Yes. I am the one and only expert, only listen to me on all things Bad Brains. Have you never been on RU-vid before?

That actually is next haha. It’ll still be a bit though - gotta finish up grad school work