Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985

by Rettman, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781889703039
• ISBN10: 1889703036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: Revelation Records

Summary

In the early 70s, Detroit was the musical hub of America, but by the early eighties, it was a wasteland. It took a group of skateboarders, a teacher and a census clerk to wake the city up and start one of the first hardcore punk scenes in America.Why Be Something That You're Not chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late 70s to its demise in the mid-80s. Through oral histories and extensive imagery, the book proves that even though the California beach towns might have created the look and style of hardcore punk, it was the Detroit scene - along with a handful of other cities - that cultivated the music's grassroots aesthetic before most cultural hot spots around the globe even knew what the music was about.The book includes interviews with members of The Fix, Violent Apathy, Negative Approach, Necros, Pagans, Bored Youth, and L-Seven along with other people who had a hand in the early hardcore scene like Ian MacKaye, Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson.

Table of Contents

Dead End America	p. 1
Death Of A Hippie's Dream	p. 9
In This Town	p. 15
Clear Vision	p. 23
"Who Would Want To Listen To That?"	p. 27
"Instant Hardcore Education!"	p. 33
Hardcore Vines Across America	p. 35
This Is Not Funny-The Meatmen Live	p. 43
Where Were You In The Summer Of '81?	p. 45
Process Of Elimination	p. 65
Midwest Bumpkins Meet The Fonzie Of Punk; Film At Eleven	p. 71
Locked Out; Shut In	p. 75
Bookies...Nunzio's...Menjo's Too...	p. 79
Cass And Willis	p. 83
Pressure Into The Eighties	p. 87
The Soul Music Of The Suburbs	p. 91
Truth Right Now	p. 97
Special Forces	p. 105
We've Been To Clutch Cargo's, Have You?	p. 109
Welcome To Detroit! - The Demise Of The Freezer And The Rise Of The Clubhouse	p. 113
The Dream Was Dead	p. 119
The Process Of Elimination Tour	p. 123
Hardcore On The T.V.!	p. 127
Attention America	p. 131
Count Me Out	p. 137
Evacuate	p. 147
Gallery	p. 159
Cast Of Characters	p. 229
Bands	p. 233
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