How Bad Brains created a new punk genre

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How Bad Brains created a new punk genre

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Күн бұрын

Bad Brains combined elements of hardcore punk, reggae, funk, and any other music they liked into one explosive new sound. This is the story of how this band from Washington D.C. took over the punk community.
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@WeGachaMetal 3 ай бұрын

I saw BB live in 1990. This was obviously more than a decade into their career. They were full on INSANE. Metal, punk, hardcore, reggae all melded together. 100% originality.

@ItsMe-mn8qk 2 ай бұрын

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

@emptyemptiness8372 3 ай бұрын

We played in suburban punk rock n roll bands as teenagers until we heard bad brains....then we played hardcore. Their contributions to punk culture deserves recognition. They changed everything fir us in 1980.

@michaeldill7620 4 ай бұрын

A white kid from suburbia sees these guys, and gets to hang out with them.. insane energy, years later on the night of our senior prom while waiting for the bus to providence a limo pulls up and the kids scream LOSER! I smile , flip them off and go see one of the greatest shows of my life at lupus heartbreak hotel. Also had rock for light stuck in my piece of shit cars tape deck all through high school you could say it was my soundtrack, What a time my teacher for a class called media studies was the bartender at the club and I was able to force the class to listen to rock for light on vinyl.. was such a fuckin great and strange time to be a teen. God bless these dudes. The good the bad and the ugly. I still got a little PMA. I THINK😜😂

@Thuja814 3 ай бұрын

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.

@michaeldill7620 3 ай бұрын

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

@ItsMe-mn8qk 2 ай бұрын

Still have that yellow tape

@theBIZisSUREman 14 күн бұрын

Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel! I saw so many great bands there back in the 90's before I moved away.

@tentacleborne1572 2 күн бұрын

Lupos was the best

@TOMG12XU 3 ай бұрын

In their prime, they'd smoke any/all bands.🔥

@aghakhanelsharif7661 3 ай бұрын

Yes yes yes

@FleshLessOne 26 күн бұрын

ABSOLUTELY !

@gdixon5301 13 күн бұрын

One of the great bands ... got me through the eighties ... first thing I played when I got home from work ...

@Murderbot2000 26 күн бұрын

That these guys are not in the rock and roll hall of fame on their first nomination, is straight up criminal.

@55tallanh 2 ай бұрын

Back in the early 80s, I lived at 1929 Calvert St in DC. We achieved infamy in the neighborhood for occasionally hosting Bad Brains in our living room. Good times...

@talkingthreadsband8742 Ай бұрын

Well Done. We met HR today. Legend.

@oonamorrioghanblackthorne 4 ай бұрын

I got to hang with them in New York and then later opened for them twice, once in the band Aerobic Death and another time in Agent 86.

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

That’s awesome!

@metaprecise8935 3 ай бұрын

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!

@0000Endgfgv Ай бұрын

Apartheid American Style?

@oonamorrioghanblackthorne Ай бұрын

@@0000Endgfgv yeah but I’m not on that album. Played those songs though.

@TimBitten 3 ай бұрын

House of Suffering is the best Bad Brains track and I will die on this hill!

@chriskolb3105 3 ай бұрын

Better than Sailin’ On? IDK

@jeppyjep 3 ай бұрын

Big Takeover

@migdel 3 ай бұрын

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

@ColeWheeler4Lyfe 2 ай бұрын

The whole of I Against I though.

@mlwsf 3 ай бұрын

Remember bang crammed into this venue in San Francisco that was called the Trocadero Transfer or the Bridge Club, depending in the year, for the God of Love Reunion show. The entire audience moved in a wave. There was no pit just a wall of flesh and humanity. HR controlled the audience, standing stock still. He just held the mic and sang a few songs like that, then when he did start dancing the crowd lost their minds. Walked out of that club soaked to the bone. I took my shirt off and wrang t out on the sidewalk wishing that I could do the same with my jeans. It was many years later that I would see them at Slim's in San Francisco on the Build a Nation tour, and it was at this show that I realized that it wasn't about HR anymore. He seemed to just be such a small part of this whole thing now. I guess that none of us were as young or as Naive as we used to be.

@FleshLessOne 26 күн бұрын

I was at that show at the Trocadero..S.F Bay Area Native. I remember just the same. I was floored by it and the energy and all the sweat-mess.. I got sick the whole next week and laid in bed thinking about that experience and how no other band since has given me those feelings or emotions, Great memories.

@iamnotmrlebowski 3 ай бұрын

excellent video, mate! the I & I Survived dub album is fantastic and an extremely under appreciated bad brains album!

@bdogthegreat1 4 ай бұрын

Favorite band since I first heard the ROIR tape around 1988.

@badspasm1 3 ай бұрын

Seen em live in Tacoma wa. The band came out started playing then HR came jumping 5 feet in the air looking like a jester with 3 huge dreds on his head. Everyother band member were standing by their amps. But HR needed the rest of the stage. One of my top ten gigs I've ever been to.

@scarygamer7579 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video my man! Very informative and you waist no time at all! You touch on key elements but dont dwell on about it. I love this. Keep making this type of content please! Keep up the great work! 🙌

@no-zo5wh 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great video, very informative. Keep up the great work!

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@louist.sanville4445 4 ай бұрын

Great video, as always! When I first got into punk rock in high school, Bad Brains were the first band I saw where everyone was black. It really hit me that there were people that looked like me and played (and listened to) this music, which is great. Of course, I was disappointed by the homophobia and that made me look at them a little different, but at that time I felt seen by them. Then, I found out about other bands like Pure Hell and Death which have all-black members, and It made me appreciate punk rock even more. Then, I realize there is a whole community around it, Afropunk, which is flourishing even today. Again, this was a great video. Thanks for making it! (Quick sidenote: I think on future releases of Quickness, "Don't Blow Bubbles" was turned into an instrumental track called "Instrumental." As far as I can tell, the original track still exists on streaming, at least on Spotify.)

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

Super interesting perspective - thank you!

@ColKorn1965 4 ай бұрын

Check out Negro Terror, you would probably like them too

@DannyGomez-hz7rr 20 күн бұрын

The very first time I heard Bad Brains, I told myself that this was what I wanted my band to sound like

@doggius 4 ай бұрын

Bad Brains Live is one of my all time favorite albums, ever. That said, Bad Brains is one of my favorite bands ever. Great Video!

@georgeberz1798 4 ай бұрын

Bad Brains are the best live band I’ve ever seen. I was fortunate enough to see them twice. Once in 1983, and again in ‘85. At the ‘85 show, I had my foot on HR’s vocal monitor for the entire show.

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

That’s awesome!

@AudioMan-TinnitusMasking 9 күн бұрын

Probably my favourite band when I was young.. I saw them at the Bowes Lion in Stevenage, we got there early and they invited me and my mate into the soundcheck, really welcoming to us, I was about 18 at the time, will never forget that! The gig was amazing too, the place went mad. I was in a hardcore band 'Legion of Parasites' and we got a lot of influence from Bad Brains.. Funnily enough they contributed to our band splitting in the end, as our drummer Wag and my brother Sean, the guitarist wanted to bring reggae into our band and I just didn't get that, I wanted us to stay hardcore, they went on to form a reggae band in the end and our band folded after 3 albums and a 12".. Anyway, I against I was one of my favourite albums of all time, an absolute classic I loved the cosmic waves lol..

@mikeythezero 4 ай бұрын

I saw them as Soul Brains at Maritime Hall in SF in 01, amazing show, besides catching a spin kick to the head in the pit I went backstage and downed a pitcher of of beer for the headache

@voidofhope6259 3 ай бұрын

Yo the dad pretty much pulling up a chair and telling his boys to show him what they learned is so dope! That’s love! This is a very good video sir. Boutta check out some more from you. Definitely got my sub for sure.

@soundofhistory_ 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@aaronrandolph261 3 ай бұрын

possibly the best hardcore band ever. their later stuff that was more reggae oriented is also great but in such a different way. dynamic to say the least

@topper_james 4 ай бұрын

The cat in the crowd at the Lawerence, KS show was a skinhead. He was not a racist. He did not spit on HR He went by Tweety & was one of the nicest, most mellow kids around. It was my first time catching Bad Brains & we are very excited to catch the band. I was in college, at KU, & at parties, I would regularly argue that Bad Brains were not only the most seminal group in Hardcore but quite possibly the best R&R to ever come about. Meant it then & still do.

@goredongoredon 4 ай бұрын

After BB broke up, HR (the band) would book shows that regularly had iconic local bands like Void, Government Issue, etc opening for touring bands like Husker Du, JFA, Negative Approach, etc - it was a great time to live in DC.

@goredongoredon 4 ай бұрын

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

@bigdaddypiggy 3 ай бұрын

Top 3 American punk bands (in no order) the Ramones,the Misfits & mufukkin Bad Brains 🖤🤘🏻🤤

@annatsouloufilagiou3324 Ай бұрын

Ouaaou! That has been a great story telling about the Bad Brains! Congrats!

@soundofhistory_ Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@blackhistoryofrocknroll 4 ай бұрын

Cool video man. Another thing many dont realise was an infleunce was a lot of the heavier bands like Sabbath and Budgie. I remember reading an interview in spin magaxine around the time "quickness" ce out and i think it was Daryl or Gary mentioning that and calling it "dooms day music " Speakjng of Quickness, that album was slept on so much it was a cross over in diversity and jsd the rock appeal like I against I but had more of a variety . God Of love had a mix of both rock and reggae with a few hsrdcore songs . The ROIR tape is my fave i did a whole video duscussing it on my channel - celebrating its 42nd birthday.

@FleshLessOne 26 күн бұрын

Bad Brains for Life. P.M.A yeah I got it. Great story and all, Thanks.

@RonaldWilliams-lp3bg 3 ай бұрын

Bad brains are an absolute classic my favorite track buy them is rise

@metaprecise8935 3 ай бұрын

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

@davidpearson3147 4 ай бұрын

Loving your content. ROIR tape is their best work hands down. The energy, the lack of Rick Ocasek's production. Tight.

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

Totally fair

@kermerc.s.a.5765 4 ай бұрын

Black dots > roir s/t

@matthewharty6531 3 ай бұрын

Didn't know he was originally English, I saw them in my home town UK in the 80's absolutely blew me away and then randomly picked up a hitchhiker a few years later who had been to the same gig and we remembered each other at that point lol

@sonofeloah 12 күн бұрын

I first saw them live when they came out to SF in 1980 and played at the Fab Mab. I was totally entrenched into the hardcore at that time with spending a lot of time hanging out with talking for days with nikki sicki of sick pleasure, the spikes, orlando the "ox" of special forces, pete galivanni of the breakouts, will shatter of flipper. Yeah, folks look at me now and are like, naw, he was never part of that back then and I say "don't judge a book by its cover, unless it covers just another". Yup, those of us who survived, dang, we got old!!! lol

@lpokiiim 3 ай бұрын

Great Vid .Love this band.

@spiralscratch7823 3 ай бұрын

Very well done, thank you! You got that PMA.

@Bobertchin 3 ай бұрын

Love this video! My personal favorite album is Quickness. But I Against I is amazing, for sure. I do prefer the live versions on Youth Are Getting Restless though.

@jotacalvo Ай бұрын

Saw BB in ‘95 at The Milk Bar in Jacksonville FL (with Hagfish, who were also amazing). One of the wildest shows I ever saw. Darryl is a monster, not just on bass, but scary tall. They all just had a larger-than-life presence. And I’m not sure I believe the “mosh” story. In the late 80’s, when we were all still using the term slam dance (admittedly I wasn’t into it, being smaller than most guys) I had a friend from Scotland who came over to the States and used the term “mosh”, long before I ever heard it here. I had assumed the term came from Britain. I could be wrong, but that was the first time I heard it.

@Droopymccool2323 4 ай бұрын

Awesome video!

@PatrickGeneLeBlancHardy 3 ай бұрын

BAD BRAINS 🎸🧠 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 Thanks For Sharing 🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

@Delalumiere666 Күн бұрын

Hi mate, great stuff! I locve the bad brains, the first album is the cooler one for me, would love to find out more about their jazzy side...wanted to ask ou about the sources? you drop in a lot of quotes? do you have a book or where does this information come from? would be great for me to delve deeper . Thanks mate

@soundofhistory_ Күн бұрын

It comes from a variety of places, but I’d recommend the documentary and book Finding Joseph 1 if you want to dig deeper

@OiSqueakArt Ай бұрын

First time viewer, and I sadly never got to see Bad Brains live. But when I was about 17 tears old, ans being a street kid in Santa Monica, i saw a rare sighting of the elusive Henry Rollins while I was shoplifting from Tower Records. I, being the Midwest boy, and raised to be respectful, begged henry to pardon my intrusion, but would he recommend any bands not getting the deserved respect . He looked at my mohawk and my 2nd hand wardrobe, and told me to respect the stooges, bad brains, minor threat, black flag, and if I liked that I might like to hear rollins band. That list is the litmus test i hold people to when getting to know them.. that list has never been wrong as of yet. Thanks for letting me share, and for covering great bands.

@johnchedsey1306 4 ай бұрын

I'm genuinely glad to hear HR might be enjoying better mental health these days. He was erratic, to say the least. I saw the Soul Brains in 2002 or so and honestly, it was a far shout from their glory days. HR was just...not present. I always kinda felt for Dr. Know and Darryl because they're so badass at their instruments as well as just seeming like good dudes. The You Don't Know Mojack podcast has great interviews with both Darryl and Anthony Countey that are fantastic. The podcast also interviews some of the people involved with HR's solo work. Definitely helps fill in lots of gaps and details about Bad Brains and HR. And punk/hardcore just flat out wouldn't be the same had they never existed. They blew minds.

@publicjeremynumberone 4 ай бұрын

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

@xx7secondsxx 3 ай бұрын

SCHWAAAYYYYY!!!! I've NEVER seen what Skeeter Thompson looks like!!! Just heard "Another story about Skeeter Thompson" by LATE! like 20 years ago!! One of Grohl's best tracks EVER!!!🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘🍻🍻

@iamthewalruspaul 4 ай бұрын

Another band that I read that influenced Dr. Know was Return to Forever, Stanley Clarke was in it. Romantic Warrior is a great album by them.

@peterdaigle4772 21 күн бұрын

These dudes were fast and could turn on a dime

@r0ckstar666 Ай бұрын

Ive been listening to the bad brains since i was a kid in 1984

@williamkelley1783 4 күн бұрын

I saw Bad Brains in Austin in (I think) '97-and their opener was a band we'd never heard of called the Deftones. When I listen to the later Deftones'-the White Pony album and their nu-metal hits, it's clear to me how much they owe Bad Brains. Without Bad Brains-without HR, there's. no Deftones.

@travischrisman6264 2 ай бұрын

I saw Bad Brains with Leeway in 89 in Omaha. It was a vacant grocery store called Radial Hall. It was packed! Part of the stage collapsed and a light hit Darrel in the head so they stopped the show. Both bands were great. There were some nazi skins around starting trouble. That was common in O-town in those days. Props to the Trad. & S.H.A.R.P. skins that always tried To combat that B.S.. I’ll never forget that night! It was my last day of middle school.

@gavinshickle1814 4 ай бұрын

God of Love was my introduction to the band. I saw them play at Trax in D.C. I had no idea what I was witnessing but the place was packed. Somewhere in my house I still have this flimsy pink promo record from that night.

@mghc7 4 ай бұрын

I have the snare drum from the recording of i against I….GO!

@misfit2022 3 ай бұрын

Earl Hudson great drummer and his Wikipedia entry is five lines long. Clearly no one at Wikipedia understands the importance of drums. In one of my early bands we played Batman by Neal Hefti too, although we played The Jam version. They should have played him The Clash who could really play and speaking of great drummers Topper Headon also great so no surprise they found The Clash on their own as no band better at mixing punk and reggae. I know when I looked into the term years ago it is believed moshing comes from the late 70’s So Cal punks.

@christopheraustin330 4 ай бұрын

I agree with you.

@devinrodriguez3530 4 ай бұрын

bravo good sir!

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@user-nm6lj1nm7b 4 ай бұрын

Minor Threat Vid was killer! Thanks 4 all u Do

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@NoCoverCharge 2 ай бұрын

They created hard core

@yourlocalusername392 3 ай бұрын

One of my fav bands oat

@oddioventurediscourse Ай бұрын

I have too much to say but one thing i will say i remember reading in spin magazine they were inflienced by bands like sabbath and budgie as well

@ItsMe-mn8qk 2 ай бұрын

1st Bad Brains Concert was at LaMours in Brooklyn, 89 or 90. I saw the lead singer from Living Colour (cult of personality) in the pit

@emcpadden 3 ай бұрын

I was in a band in the late 80s called blind Justice from New Haven and we played with human rights at the anthrax in Norwalk ct. then some time after that played with bad brains at a tiny club also in Norwalk. Those was when Israeli was the singer. They were really nice guys that seemed a bit down in their luck. You’d never know that they were the good fathers of hardcore.

@AwesomeEcho-tb3oj 14 күн бұрын

Hardcore came out of LA or at least simultaneously around the US (so what genre did they create?), Bad Brains reggae influenced no one. So they are not the first, debatable if they're the goat (USHC Legend's of course) but best live, there's a great argument for that one for sure.

@erikadlloyd5586 Ай бұрын

The cat!😅

@GTA10001 2 ай бұрын

THE most energetic, kinetic frontman in any music, in history. Makes Jagger or Daltry in their prime look like Raymond Burr in Ironsides. I say that having seen them live at least 5 times in their prime

@travischrisman6264 2 ай бұрын

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

@user-iy4ih7dj4n 27 күн бұрын

why can't i find ONE video on the "I against I" remaster?

@JK..INFX.D.... 4 ай бұрын

Great ending! Good thinking!!, "if you clicked on this you , you know the Impact". All the clicks I waste watching ppl regurgitate old info , this was refreshing and worth a Subscription. The content was fresh as well!

@drinkinincan 4 ай бұрын

David Vanian was born in 1956 not 1967

@keltonking4457 4 ай бұрын

you're genuinely becoming one of my favorite youtubers, thank you very much for this one🙏 i'd love to see a video about the smashing pumpkins at some point too

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

That’s very nice - thank you!

@paulmorrison1107 3 ай бұрын

They were a light in a tunnel. The race didn’t matter. Just the words.

@dannywalker6872 3 ай бұрын

Do Fishbone!

@kincamell2 4 ай бұрын

Heavy

@jeremiahjohnson2741 4 ай бұрын

Yeah their live album in Amsterdam, Youth are Getting Restless was my introduction to them and it was pure fire. I think Rollins Band played that same show, because they had a live track recorded there, Maybe "Do It"? or something off that EP.

@sukhbir6246 3 ай бұрын

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

@robby024 3 ай бұрын

We got that PMA

@Marleystrummer 3 ай бұрын

The mosh pit theory sounds pretty legit, Sid Vicious started the pogo, along with the Bromley contingent in London

@slashtrio 4 ай бұрын

Nice review, I enjoyed it. I'm in my latter 40s and got really into punk in the 80s as a 11-15 year old skateboarder. Was into the misfits, circle jerks, and such, but remember hearing Bad Brains and being blown away by their sound. Still love the song Big Takeover! I knew that HR had some chronic serious mental health issues (assumed schizophrenia or bipolar) but did not know about some of the more homophobic stuff and all that. People were not as open minded back then for sure, but I would venture to guess that his mental health issues played a role in a lot of the reported unstable and erratic behavior. Good to hear he's been doing better. I think i recall that some big bands had a benefit show for him in recent years.

@Pinebrookjohn75 4 ай бұрын

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

@maddadrants 29 күн бұрын

HR ended up having a massive tumor removed from his brain. That was the cause of his irrational behavior.

@DE-GEN-ART 4 ай бұрын

its called a skim board, and its the funnest thing you can do on the beach if you cant surf

@jovanreid6782 4 ай бұрын

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!

@aaronscrewface 3 ай бұрын

Bad Brains are kinda overrated as a whole. They were fucking awesome as fuck until like 1985-ish. Apparently one of those bands you'd get scared to play with simply because you knew you were going to get blown off stage, and for good reason. I'm not even going to pretend anything they've done after 'I Against I' is any good. Seeing them play live nowadays is just sad.

@DaveVargas90012 Ай бұрын

You skipped band name "THE BLACK DOTS"

@hellbenderdesign 3 ай бұрын

HUNTING ROD?!? As much as I love the first record, I couldn't believe how much better the production was on _Pay to Cum_ off _Banned in DC._ And the 'slower' _Black Dots_ version.

@damiantaylor4923 3 ай бұрын

Saw bad brains in Cleveland w chuck mosley from faith no more singing. You did not mention him in this video. Not that I am a huge fan of fnm just thought you missed something. Ps bb is also the reason why the beastie boys have thier name hense the bb. You also didn’t mention that Mca from the b boys produced a bad brains record. Rest in peace mca

@AllenSentinery 4 ай бұрын

They are great Hardline.

@101deadpuppys 16 күн бұрын

bad brains > the beatles

@jimmyjarrett-ws2iz 3 ай бұрын

Dave Vanian Definitely wasn't born in 1967, not unless New Rose came out when he was ten.

@JeffNighswander 28 күн бұрын

It's not a big deal but I'm pretty sure it's Bad Brains not The Bad Brains...

@soundofhistory_ 28 күн бұрын

Technically, yes. But members of the band say it both ways

@JeffNighswander 28 күн бұрын

@@soundofhistory_ Fair enough, I've just never heard or seen it the other way, but like I said, it's not a big deal.

@fordprefect80 24 күн бұрын

Fantastic band. H.R. should have gotten medical help much earlier than he did.

@seanm5258 3 ай бұрын

What's your cat's name?

@soundofhistory_ 3 ай бұрын

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

@MichaelJohnston-u5h 27 күн бұрын

Okay so check it out, I am the nephew of Moe's sussman who was the manager for the bad brains. I was going to college in American University and taking classes at Omega studios where they recorded the Omega sessions. That was actually my exam for college. A lot of the stuff you're talking about dude is not true. I used to go out drinking with Earl all the time. Darryl was my roommate. We lived in the basement at my Uncle Moe's house right across the street from Bishop oconto high School. There's all kinds of things that I know about the bad brains that probably nobody knows. A lot of the things you're talking about in this video just are not true, I don't know where you got your information from but you need to do a few fact checks. Get in touch with me and I'll let you know about all kinds of bad brain facts. Like one time I was hanging out with Darryl up in Woodstock, New York and he got a phone call while Dave Matthews band was recording their first album and the bass players aunt blew up. So we had to drive an ampeg base amp to bearsville recording studio. I got all kinds of crazy stories. I was actually the bad brains first guitar tech for Dr no, and I also was an audio guy for the bad brains doing shows at CBGB's, the peppermint lounge and all kinds of venues up and down the East Coast and the West Coast.

@ashtraydekay6624 4 ай бұрын

Those "waterboard things", are called "wake boards" =^.^=

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

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

@user-dc7vj7gw4b 3 ай бұрын

I grow up skateboarding listening to bad they influenced me,I'm Mexican so they broke down racial 31:56 barrers pma all day. thank you I really enjoyed that makes sense Deftones played with the bad brains cause maverick the record label.

@mikegilbert3981 Ай бұрын

1st punk show BB at age 11 in 1982 . Blackies for some reason cant play instruments they choose Crapp music because its easy. These guy's wher so far ahead of times.

@josemigueltrujillodiaz9123 4 ай бұрын

Stay with someone who looks at you the way your cat does ;)

@soundofhistory_ 4 ай бұрын

Haha he is good at getting what he wants

@iamthewalruspaul 4 ай бұрын

Please do Meat Puppets video

@kingofkongisland 3 ай бұрын

ROIR is pronounced "roar"..now you know...

@soundofhistory_ 3 ай бұрын

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

@kingofkongisland 3 ай бұрын

@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.

@soundofhistory_ 3 ай бұрын

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

@kingofkongisland 3 ай бұрын

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..

@arterial_alchemy 3 ай бұрын

I Against I best song

@willieluncheonette5843 3 ай бұрын

Bad Brains are considered a hardcore band and they did not invent the genre.

@soundofhistory_ 3 ай бұрын

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

@willieluncheonette5843 3 ай бұрын

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

@soundofhistory_ 3 ай бұрын

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

@willieluncheonette5843 3 ай бұрын

@@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.

@soundofhistory_ 3 ай бұрын

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

@sawyer_Benton 4 ай бұрын

Clash already did it (mixed punk in reggae, listen to their first album), I like bad brains but they aren’t as innovative as people want to say.

@johnchedsey1306 4 ай бұрын

That is certainly a take.

@sawyer_Benton 4 ай бұрын

@@johnchedsey1306 ya it’s a fact

@kyleinnes4963 4 ай бұрын

No, it’s a take

@sawyer_Benton 4 ай бұрын

@@kyleinnes4963 big facts

@kyleinnes4963 4 ай бұрын

@@sawyer_Benton Big takes sunny

@IwasMMAbeforeyouwere 3 ай бұрын

There is the argument that the Hardcore genre is somewhat defined by a particular “Hardcore beat”, and that that beat hadn’t been played that fast until Earl and the Bad Brains. They were the first.

@willieluncheonette5843 3 ай бұрын

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