This is the best one ever! He rolls off the whole scene so easily! He doesn’t get the stardom from a band standpoint, but he wins by a mile from his remembrance of the scene!
This is one of the top NYHC Chronicles I've seen. Jesse comes off as super cool and knowledgeable. Heart Attack is one of my favorites of the early 80s scene, at least among the lesser known bands. I first heard them on the ROIR NY Thrash compilation and was hooked.
I was 14yrs old in Lincoln Nebraska when I walked into a junk store and found Heart Attack's Subliminal Seduction EP. The owner was an old punk selling some of his records. I bought a DK album and he said "I think you'll like this one kid." He was fuckin right.
I played one show at Coney. It's still my fondest memory from back in my day. Jesse was always one of the nicest people. Seeing how St. Marks is now is so sad.
This stuff Jesse says in the first minute is a nerdy 6 degrees of separation thing for me because he mentions 3 bands that I wrote the Wikipedia pages for: the Stimulators, Shrapnel, and the Dickies (the Stims article I wrote from scratch, the other two already existed, but I wrote over 90% of their current forms). Jesse is a legend IMO and a great voice. I've managed to see him twice: with Bellvue at Joey Ramone's 50th, and solo on same bill as L.A.M.F. I've been watching these "10 Questions" videos for years before I came across the Live! episodes.
Awesome as always, Drew. It's great to see these foundational folks (mostly) being so humble and sharing experiences. This is modern tribal story telling at its best. Thank you for continuing to do this for all of us.
I kept wanting to smack his hat off and mess up his hair................but, this is what these 10 questions should bring out. Captured musical memories, of the time and places during this music scene, and it's evolution. Great job Mr. Malin, and Mr. Stone. Loved it.................but i still wanna straighten his hat or smack it off his head!!! HAHAHAHA
I know Jesse for years now....ha, he was busy in the hardcore scene whilst us LI poor bastard suburban kids were stuck in Jr. high with most kids listening to Motley Crue and Journey or whatever, Rush. Punk wasn't even heard of minus maybe 3 people I knew. All people knew was MTV, and WLIR FM radio who never played punk anyway, minus the rare Sex Pistols song. Insulated wasn't the word. People would make me tapes (circa 1984 or so) of DK and Black Flag, and then I started to pay attention, and listening to college radio helped saved my life. We had a few record stores that sold punk and alternative records, but very few. I had to trek into NYC from 1983-89 to get any decent records, mainly. I was more of an R.E.M. and Husker Du fan....what can I tell ye. Then I heard bands like Scratch Acid, Ed Gein's Car, The Cramps, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Throbbing Gristle, even early Flaming Lips, etc. on WNYU and I hadn't a fucking clue what I was hearing half the time, but I realized how much I'd been missing. I used to wear a Dead Milkmen shirt and maybe two kids laughed. There was never a real punk scene on L.I. Maybe in Queens or Brooklyn. I was too young to have any idea of that, if so. Later it was all new wave/goth dance clubs. Didn't count as punk, though you'd see a few punks and skinheads later on at some LI clubs like Paris NY. But when I went into NYC to St. Marks Place I saw real punks. Then later through connex. Jesse sucked me into his D-Generation and GREENDOORNYC parties and gang....and all hope was thus lost. -- Also, as Jesse will tell you, things started to go downhill and get fruity once St. Marks Pizza shut down. With the fake cheese. He was a punk before ALL OF US WERE PUNKS
Funny how EVERY nyhc head says Bad Brains but all the nyhc bands more or less followed similar sounds while BB were completely different. Just strange none of them would've tried doing something either similar to them or altogether different....
i felt the same way when black flag came out with my war i thought they sold out there not fast anymore blah blah now that im older i understand where they were coming from
