Aggression
| Aggression | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Oxnard (United States) |
| Genre (s) | punk |
| founding | 1979, 2000, 2005 |
| resolution | 1998, 2002 |
| Founding members | |
singing |
Mark "Hickey" Rodemaker (1979–1998, † 2000) |
guitar |
Henry Knowles (1979–1992, 2000–2002, † 2002) |
bass |
Bob Clark (1979–1998, since 2005) |
| Last occupation | |
singing |
Jess Leedy (since 2005) |
guitar |
Rob Thacker (2000–2002, since 2005) |
bass |
Bob Clark |
Drums |
Mark Aber (1979–1986, since 2005) |
| former members | |
singing |
Drew Klein (2000-2002) |
guitar |
Kent Taylor (1992-1998) |
Drums |
Larry White (1979) |
Drums |
John Mitchell (1986) |
Drums |
Mike "Fluffy Machete" Minnick (1986–1998) |
Drums |
Ryan Fassler (2000-2002) |
Agression is an American punk and hardcore band from Oxnard, California . The band is considered one of the earliest representatives of skate punk in California.
history
Agression was founded in 1979 by singer Mark "Hickey" Rodemaker, guitarist Henry Knowles and bassist Bob Clark. Why a misspelling was chosen for the band name ("Aggression" is also written in English with two "g") is not known. The drummers changed several times in the early days; the first drummer recorded with was Larry White. The quartet was the first punk band in Oxnard and founded a scene that later became known as "Nardcore" (a trunk word from "Oxnard" and "Hardcore"). The bands Ill Repute , Dr. Know and Stalag 13. Agression was also part of the first wave of skatepunk bands in Southern California: Rodemaker, Knowles and Clark were semi-professional skaters when they were founded and were sponsored by the skateboard manufacturer Sims. The band's logo was designed by Jaime Hernandez . Agression was one of the first bands on BYO Records and with three tracks on the trend-setting punk / hardcore compilation Someone Got Their Head Kicked In! of the label. After the recordings, the band separated from drummer White and replaced him with Mark Aber. The band toured nationwide and played, among other things, in the CBGB club in New York, which was then decisive for the scene . In 1983 BYO released the band's first album, Don't Be Mistaken , the cover photo of which was taken by Glen E. Friedman .
In early 1986 drummer Aber, who played with the Angry Samoans and Wasted Youth at the same time, left the band in a dispute about their future direction. The excessive alcohol and drug consumption of the other band members played a role here. After a live EP with drummer John Mitchell, the three founding members moved to Denver, 1,700 kilometers away . There a permanent drummer was found in Mike “Fluffy Machete” Minnick, but apart from a live album recorded in December 1995 for a local label, the band was unproductive. In 1992, Knowles moved back to California and was replaced by Kent Taylor. In 1998, Agression dissolved.
Rodemaker died of liver failure in August 2000. In the same year, Knowles reformed the band in San Jose, California . The line-up was a completely new one: Drew Klein took care of the vocals, Knowles played guitar, Rob Thacker bass and Ryan Fassler drums. The band's work came to a halt when Knowles developed leukemia . In August 2002 he died of hepatitis C infection because his immune system was weakened by the leukemia. In 2003 an album was released posthumously on Cleopatra Records .
In 2005, Clark and Aber reformed the band again. In 2007 the Californian label Dr. Strange Records is a tribute album with Taking Out A Little Agression , on which bands like DI , Fang , JFA , MDC and Verbal Abuse cover tracks from Agression .
style
Allmusic described the band's music in its early days as a mixture of "the anger and simplicity of punk, the furious speed of hardcore and provocative, winking machismo". Later recordings showed a mix of skate punk and generic heavy metal . The Ox-Fanzine sees the band's first album as "melodic snottiness (...) padded with NWoBHM bonds" and drew comparisons to other Californian punk / hardcore bands such as the Adolescents or the Avengers . Later recordings by the band, however, were partly clearly influenced by metal . The Maximumrocknroll -Fanzine describes the music of the debut album as medium-paced old-school punk with influences from Thrash Metal , Oi! and metal. The fanzine Suburban Voice described the band as “handsome skater / surfer types who combine the adrenaline rush of these sports with a frenzied, semi-melodic punk sound”. The magazine found that the violence that accompanied the macho turf behavior of California's skater scene at the time was reflected in the band's lyrics. Music journalist and director Steven Blush attributes the band to hardcore and describes their first incarnation as the "Kings of Silver Beach", the area in Oxnard where the region's punk scene originated. The weekly newspaper Phoenix New Times lists the 1983 album Don't Be Mistaken as the second best skatepunk album of all time. The Los Angeles Times unkte 1991 about an upcoming appearance of the band, which spread “happiness, cheerfulness and chaos” on the US west coast, was “trendy as the plague and also about as often on tour”.
Discography
- 1983: Don't Be Mistaken ( BYO Records )
- 1985: Bootleg (live album, Bootleg Records)
- 1985: Agression ( Mystic Records )
- 1986: Recorded Live At The Underground Railroad (Live EP , Super Seven Records)
- 1996: Nowhere to Run (Live album, High Five Records)
- 2003: Full Circle ( Cleopatra Records )
- 2005: Live - Locals Only, Dick! (Mystic Records)
- 2006: Grind Kings (Lucky 13 Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 95 .
- ↑ a b c PunkGlobe.com: Tyler Vile Goes One on One With Mark Aber of Agression. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ LouderSound.com: Skate or die! How skate-punk took over the world. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ a b TheFreeLibrary.com: Agression: Big Bob on a quarter century of Nardcore. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Discogs.com: Various - Taking Out A Little Agression - A Tribute. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Allmusic.com: Agression: Biography. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ^ Daniel Schubert: 36 years later: Agression - Don't Be Mistaken . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 142, February 2019.
- ↑ Tim Yohannan: Agression - Don't Be Mistaken . In: Maximumrocknroll . No. 6, May 1983, p. 65.
- ↑ Al Quint:. In: Suburban Voice . No. 40.
- ↑ PhoenixNewTimes.com: The 10 Best Skate Punk Records of All Time. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ LATimes.com: Music Agression: Road Punks: Hide your womenfolk and be sure to make a Blue Cross payment. Accessed July 30, 2020 .