>> "It was easy to identify the greats at that time" The slogan at the time was "kill your heroes". Hüsker Dü? For me, the greats at that time, 1980's hardcor

>> "It was easy to identify the greats at that time" The slogan at the time was "kill your heroes". Hüsker Dü? For me, the greats at that time, 1980's hardcore, were the kids in the pit. The kids putting on shows in basements. The kids making copies of copies of copies of cassette tapes of music recorded from a boombox while driving around a city two hours away at 2 AM in the morning on a college radio station because that's the only time they played hardcore on the radio and it wasn't sold in record stores in your city. Bad Brains did not start out as a jazz/pop band. Darryl: "a lot of people try to misinterpret and say Bad Brains were jazz fusionists but we weren't. We were just teenagers that were looking into that style of music before we started to listen to punk rock music." They couldn't listen to hardcore because hardcore didn't exist yet, they had to help invent it. People exaggerate the musical background of those kids. And the importance of that musical background. The music was dance music for pissed off teenage kids with shaved heads. It didn't need to be great. If you look at the back of the DOA record Bloodied but Unbowed, it says "we want to create a world so free we can run wild". https://i.discogs.com/Oa4bo9uc2FZ0elSuP2u60tHbwXqvEPKdDLeSZaxY12M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMTMz/MzktMTM2MjMzMTc4/My01NTY4LmpwZWc.jpeg https://i.discogs.com/Oa4bo9uc2FZ0elSuP2u60tHbwXqvEPKdDLeSZa... That's definitional hardcore. That's what is was about. That's what hardcore meant to me. It wasn't about chord progressions. We failed. And now that world is gone to the point that few remember it ever existed.