Harley Flanagan

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Harley Frances Flanagan (born March 8, 1967 in San Francisco ) is an American musician of the New York hardcore scene .

Life

Flanagan's mother was a bartender at the New York punk and new wave club "Tier 3", which brought him into contact with the local music scene at an early age. As a twelve-year-old, Flanagan played as a drummer in the punk band The Stimulators . There he got out, however, because he wanted to play heavier music , inspired mainly by the Bad Brains and Lemmy Kilmister . Together with Dave Hahn (formerly manager of the Bad Brains), John Berry (founding member of the Beastie Boys ) and Dave Stein from Even Worse , he founded the Cro-Mags , this time as bassist . In the mid-1980s, Flanagan was a founding member of the hardcore band Murphy's Law . Here he played the drums again. However, the Cro-Mags were in the foreground for him and Flanagan left Murphy's Law again. In the early 1990s, Flanagan left the Cro-Mags. These dissolved shortly afterwards. Flanagan formed the group White Devil with Cro-Mags guitarist Parris Mayhew and ex- biohazard guitarist Bobby Hambel, which was later renamed Samsara. In 1998 they called themselves Cro-Mags and released an album. In 2001 they disbanded. Flanagan devoted himself to a solo project he called Harley's War . In 2003 and 2012 an album was released, in 2009 an EP with the participation of several well-known hardcore musicians. In 2016, Flanagan published his autobiography, Hard-Core: Life of My Own .

In 2012 Flanagan broke into the VIP area at the CBGB Festival in New York's Webster Hall and injured then Cro-Mags bassist Mike “The Gook” Couls and another person with a knife. He was arrested and the concert was canceled.

In April 2019, Flanagan won a lawsuit that began in May 2018 for the rights to the band name "Cro-Mags".

Discography (excerpt)

With The Stimulators

With Murphy's Law

  • 1983: Bong Blast (no label)

With Cro-Mags

  • 1986: The Age of Quarrel (Profile)
  • 1989: Best Wishes (Profiles)
  • 1992: Alpha Omega ( Century Media )
  • 1993: Near Death Experience (Century Media)
  • 2000: Revenge (Cro Mag)

With White Devil

With Harley's War

  • 2003: CroMag (Loud Fast Recordings)
  • 2008: Hardcore All-Stars (Measure Label)
  • 2012: 2012 (MVD Audio)

solo

  • 2016: Cro-Mag (MVD Audio)
  • 2018: Hard-Core (MVD Audio)

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NoEcho.net: Louie Riviera (antidotes). Retrieved September 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ www.boweryboogie.com , CBGB Festival Responds to Last Night's Webster Hall Stabbing.
  3. ↑ RollingStone.com: Cro-Mags Lawsuit: Harley Flanagan Wins Band Name. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Flanagan, Harley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flanagan, Harley Frances (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician of the New York hardcore scene
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco