Harley Flanagan
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
- 1982: Loud Fast Rules! ( Reach Out International Records )
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
- 1995: Reincarnation ( EP , Lost and Found Records )
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
- Hard-Core: Life of My Own . Feral House, Port Townsend 2016, ISBN 978-1-62731-033-8 .
Web links
- Harley Flanagan at Discogs (English)
- Harley Flanagan at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NoEcho.net: Louie Riviera (antidotes). Retrieved September 30, 2016 .
- ↑ www.boweryboogie.com , CBGB Festival Responds to Last Night's Webster Hall Stabbing.
- ↑ RollingStone.com: Cro-Mags Lawsuit: Harley Flanagan Wins Band Name. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
personal data | |
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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 |