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Aug 23rd, 2006, 10:21 AM
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This episode is not work safe.
Interview with Steve Blush, author of American Hardcore and contributor to the American Hardcore documentary.
We discuss how he is getting ready for the release of the American Hardcore documentary; why he wrote American Hardcore; the History of Rock and Roll documentary; the Sex Pistols, The Clash, X and Nirvana; director Paul Rachman; the GangGreen, Bad Brains, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog and Pantera videos; why hardcore music is ignored by the media; Rolling Stone magazine; the end of the punk era and the birth of hardcore; Minor Threat and Black Flag; why the U.K. never had a hardcore scene like America; how the values of hardcore have stayed with the original particpants; Styx, Journey, Asia and Ted Nugent; Hüsker Dü; why were the hardcore bands were so unique; why the original members of hardcore left the scene; the 80’s; Christian hardcore and Christian black metal; Republican conservative punks; music as a force for social change; Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, Al Barile, Jack Grisham and Glen Danzig; the oral history of American hardcore; trying to stay true to the history of hardcore; trying not to be intellectual while writing the book; what if you had a revolution and no one came; people he would have liked to interviewed; Neil Young; the difference between the book and the documentary; flawed heroes.
Featured song is “F***** Up Ronnie†by D.O.A.
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://smallworldpodcast.com/mp3/smallworld082306.mp3
This episode is not work safe.
Interview with Steve Blush, author of American Hardcore and contributor to the American Hardcore documentary.
We discuss how he is getting ready for the release of the American Hardcore documentary; why he wrote American Hardcore; the History of Rock and Roll documentary; the Sex Pistols, The Clash, X and Nirvana; director Paul Rachman; the GangGreen, Bad Brains, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog and Pantera videos; why hardcore music is ignored by the media; Rolling Stone magazine; the end of the punk era and the birth of hardcore; Minor Threat and Black Flag; why the U.K. never had a hardcore scene like America; how the values of hardcore have stayed with the original particpants; Styx, Journey, Asia and Ted Nugent; Hüsker Dü; why were the hardcore bands were so unique; why the original members of hardcore left the scene; the 80’s; Christian hardcore and Christian black metal; Republican conservative punks; music as a force for social change; Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, Al Barile, Jack Grisham and Glen Danzig; the oral history of American hardcore; trying to stay true to the history of hardcore; trying not to be intellectual while writing the book; what if you had a revolution and no one came; people he would have liked to interviewed; Neil Young; the difference between the book and the documentary; flawed heroes.
Featured song is “F***** Up Ronnie†by D.O.A.
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://smallworldpodcast.com/mp3/smallworld082306.mp3