just acquired Complete Discography Vol 1 and I am thoroughly digging the FUCK out of it!!!! the crisp production and simple yet catchy (and aggressive) songwriting are everything I look for in hardcore from this period.
other opinions?
― Neanderthal, Monday, 25 July 2011 22:23 (fourteen years ago)
bookmarked
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 03:06 (fourteen years ago)
joy ride
― am0n, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 05:43 (fourteen years ago)
after a brief look in my cellar i came to the conclusion that 90% from 1982/3 fits in your description.a very good starting point should be thishttp://s7.directupload.net/images/110728/m5h2t3zs.jpg
― meisenfek, Thursday, 28 July 2011 07:40 (fourteen years ago)
N do you rock Dag Nasty?
― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, 28 July 2011 08:27 (fourteen years ago)
Later GI is pretty similar to Dag Nasty, yeah. I prefer the early more hardcore stuff, slightly, but the later material is decent too (the Complete Discography Vol 2 stuff)
― Operation Pooting (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 08:52 (fourteen years ago)
Every house should have a copy of This Is Boston Not LA (mine unfortunately doesn't, yet)
only really know their self-titled lp from '86, but it's got some good stuff
check it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNxxa4Uh_xk
― dell (del), Thursday, 28 July 2011 10:27 (fourteen years ago)
Saw them live a bunch of times. John Stabb is an entertaining frontman
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 July 2011 03:54 (fourteen years ago)
still wish I hadn't sold my Boston Not LA, Gangreen kills it on that.
search early GI on the Dischord "Four Early Singles" album.
― sleeve, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)
http://wtop.com/music/2016/05/d-c-punk-rocker-john-stabb-dies-after-cancer-battle/
RIP
― adam, Sunday, 8 May 2016 11:59 (nine years ago)
those first 3 7-inches (81 to 83) are so friggin' good. then they became something else and you either went with the dischord sound or you didn't. i didn't, but he was still one of the best early hardcore singers. r.i.p.
― scott seward, Sunday, 8 May 2016 17:19 (nine years ago)
yeah the bits that interview Stabb on that Flipside compilation are so charming, and "Religious Ripoff" rules. R.I.P.
― the tune was space, Sunday, 8 May 2016 18:33 (nine years ago)
Benefit tribute show with Thurston Moore, J. Robbins and Give at Black Cat in DC still going on tonight
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 May 2016 20:16 (nine years ago)
Very sad. Stabb was ripping it up onstage as recently as six months ago.
― JRN, Sunday, 8 May 2016 22:27 (nine years ago)
Some touching stories last night at the memorial gig by Alec and Ian Mackaye, former radio dj Jim Dunbar,and Thurston Moore.
Dagnasty's John Brown singing GI's "Understand" from Joyride with Tom Lyle on guitar and Pete Moffet on druns was a musical highlight. Thurston Moore shouted out GI's "Puppet on a String" and another one (with lyric sheets in hand). Moore closed the night with a duet with a drummer buddy --"A SOnic Prayer for John Stabb."
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 May 2016 13:24 (nine years ago)
john moloney would have been the drummer buddy.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 May 2016 13:34 (nine years ago)
Yep, from up your way
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 May 2016 14:15 (nine years ago)
getting closer againthis evenings beer to him
― meisenfek, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:25 (nine years ago)
Dagnasty's John Brown
Shawn Brown I meant
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:35 (nine years ago)