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3 unusual facts about Bad Brains


Dr. Know

Dr. Know (guitarist), stage name of guitar player Gary Miller from the band Bad Brains

Ritz Hotel Project, Washington, D.C.

Had the New York artists stayed through the weekend, they might have discovered the city's DC HarDCore scene, which was explicitly political, featuring bands such as Minor Threat, Bad Brains and Black Flag.

Zeroption

The band played numerous live performances with many punk acts of the day including the Bad Brains, the F.U.'s, D.O.A., the Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion and the Circle Jerks.


Argentine punk

At the beginning of their career, their sound was heavily influenced by early hardcore punk bands such as Dead Kennedys and Bad Brains; death rock and goth rock bands such as Virgin Prunes, and reggae bands.

Charles Romalotti

The novel is known for its accurate portrayal of the punk subculture, and it incorporates actual bands (Black Flag, Bad Brains, Descendents) and venues (Outhouse, CBGB's, and City Gardens) from the mid-1980s punk era into its fictional plot.

Dave Dictor

Dictor also had a confrontation with Bad Brains over their homophobia directed at Randy Turner of Big Boys, which resulted in the MDC song Pay to Come Along.

Dave Rubinstein

At the Rock Against Racism shows in the early 1980s, Reagan Youth shared the bill with Dead Kennedys, U.S. Chaos, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, and others.

The Icemen

Founded by Guitarist and Songwriter Marco Abularach, he was joined by Noah Evans on Bass and Mackie Jayson on Drums (Bad Brains, Cro-Mags).

Urban Waste

Much more raw, visceral, and overtly confrontational than their New York punk predecessors, they were contemporaries of Reagan Youth (of which bass player Andy Apathy was an early member), the earliest incarnation of the Beastie Boys, and Bad Brains.


see also

Build a Nation

In April 2004, Beastie Boys' official website revealed that Adam Yauch would be producing Bad Brains' follow-up to God of Love.

Pay to Cum

Trouser Press called it a "memorable ... 1:33 of free-fire guitar rage" that established Bad Brains' "mastery" of hardcore punk.

Really Red

They often shared the bill with other such pioneering acts as D.O.A., The Dicks, Circle Jerks, The Offenders, 999, The Lewd, Articles of Faith, Mydolls, SPK, Negative Approach, Sado Nation, MDC, Vex, Culturcide, The Bad Brains, The Effigies, The Big Boys and The Dead Kennedys among many others.

Redemption 87

Then they released their last album named All Guns Poolside in 1999, which contained 13 songs, 3 of which are covers from Cro-mags, Negative Approach and Bad Brains.

Shades of Culture

They have toured with Bad Brains, (The Almighty) Trigger Happy, SNFU, Ten Foot Pole and several other popular underground and mainstream acts.