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Crossover the Edge: Where Hardcore, Punk And Metal Collide
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Not being from the Mid-West, I was fascinated by the Detroit/Mid-West hardcore punk scene for quite a while.
They threw all those ingredients out there and got a full on movement.
-Byron Coley Co-Author of No Wave: New York 1976-1980
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Rettman knocked it out of the park again with Why Be Something That You're Not!! Negative Approach - Why Be Something You're Not.
It's good to collect them from all over the country to see what bands and what kids were doing what.
The Misfits interview is equally as pointless and humorous.
Nowadays, DIY, independent music is everywhere because of the internet.
Published on Sep 5, 2018.
I think I got ripped off with my local access channel when I was growing up.
Why Be Something You're Not lyrics performed by Negative Approach: Why don't you give me a fucking break One look at you tells me you're fake You've copied every fucking thing that you do So god damned worried who's looking at you You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong.
Danzig is nowhere near as jacked as he would become and tells the crowd theres nowhere else hed rather be than Detroit.
Very informative & a great read all around!!!
The start of this show is great because you get to see the hilarious 80s camera that is recording the show in the midst of the crowd.
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This is his head and his heart.
John Brannon also does a quick James Brown tribute in true 80s hardcore fashion; it only lasts ten seconds.The most notable and known performance of this show has to be The Misfits, which was how I discovered the shows existence years ago.
In the early seventies, Detroit was the musical hub of America.
Why Be Something You’re Not embodied the spirit of that movement then, and now, because it’s all got to start somewhere, even if it’s on local access in your basement.
Detroit's most known musical export at the time was the vapid sounds of New Wave heart-throbs The Romantics; this wasn't good. Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average.
Tony's gift as a writer is not what he knows, which borders on the obsessive, but his ear for the language and music he loves, and his gift for capturing rhetorical pratfalls.
It all seemed fishy to me."
However, his most priceless moment is a sarcastic remark to the absurdity of the interview.
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