Jerry's kids

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Jerry's kids
General information
origin Braintree (USA)
Genre (s) Hardcore
founding 1981, 1987, 2004
resolution 1984, 1990, 2018
Founding members
singing
 Bryan Jones (until 1983)
guitar
 Dave Aronson (until 1983, 1987–1990)
guitar
 Bob "Rockin 'Bob" Cenci
bass
 Rick Jones
Drums
 Brian Betzger (until 1984)
Current occupation
Vocals, bass
 Rick Jones
guitar
 Bob Cenci
guitar
 Ross Luongo (2004-2018)
Drums
 Jack Clark (1987-1990, 2004-2018)
former members
guitar
 Chris Doherty (1983-1984)
Drums
 Mike Dean (1987)

Jerry's Kids was a band from Braintree , Massachusetts , founded in 1981 , which belonged to the first generation of Boston hardcore bands and was featured on the iconic sampler This Is Boston, Not LA .

history

Jerry's Kids was founded in 1981 by brothers Bryan and Rick Jones, Dave Aronson, Bob Cenci and Brian Betzger. The band name is based on the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), an American organization that is committed to the fight against muscular dystrophy and whose patients they care for are also called "Jerry's Kids" because of the commitment of comedian Jerry Lewis to the MDA . The band initially played mostly on matinees - most of the fans of the still young hardcore scene were minors and had to go to non-alcoholic concerts in the afternoon. In 1982 the band featured six tracks on the sampler This Is Boston, Not LA , the seminal first compilation of the Boston hardcore scene. After the recordings for the sampler, the band had to cope with two departures. The then 15-year-old singer Bryan Jones broke his leg at one of the first concerts, whereupon his parents forbade him further activities with the band; Rick Jones then also took over the position of singer. Rhythm guitarist Dave Aronson left the band and was replaced by Chris Doherty from the appropriately disbanded Gang Green . With this line-up, the album Is This My World? recorded and released on Xclaim Records, the label of SSD guitarist Alan Barile.

A success of the band beyond the city limits of Boston did not want to set itself at this time; after the separation from the Xclaim label, there were no reprints of the album, and there were no performance opportunities in other regions of the country. In December 1984 the band broke up in frustration, and Doherty reformed together with Betzger Gang Green. At the instigation of Rick Jones, the Jerry's Kids reunited in 1987, again with Dave Aronson on rhythm guitar and Mike Dean (Gang Green) on drums in place of Brian Betzger. Dean was replaced after a short time by Jack Clark (The Choir Boys). With this line-up, the band released another album in 1989. Gigs outside of Boston were also not possible at this time, as bassist and singer Rick Jones was professionally involved, so that the band broke up in 1990.

After the end of the Jerry's Kids, Cenci and Betzger played at times with Gang Green, which under the leadership of Doherty also disbanded and re-founded several times. In 2004 the Jerry's Kids reformed themselves with Ross Luongo ( DYS ) on drums and from then on gave occasional concerts in Boston with the line-up of Jones-Cenci-Luongo-Clark, but without recording new material. Clark played briefly at DYS in 2011. In 2018 the band broke up again.

In 2006 the band was featured with a title on the soundtrack of the documentary American Hardcore . In 2010 she was portrayed in the documentary All Ages , which was shown at the Boston Independent Film Festival and the Nantucket Film Festival.

style

The music journalist Matthias Mader describes the band as “one of the pillars of the classic Boston sound”. The Ox fanzine called the Jerry's Kids' music "fast, rough and uncompromising" and the 1983 album Is This My World? as a milestone in hardcore history. Former editor of xXx -Fanzine Mike lattice describes the band as one of the "best, most focused and creative" hardcore bands and the album Is This My World? as arguably "the best record from Boston of the mid-1980s". Marlene Goldman described the Jerry's Kids' music for Trouser Press as "piercing guitars, grinding rhythms and hammering vocals" and Is This My World? as a "hardcore classic". The Noise magazine was the music of the band "wrap a force in a blanket full of fishhooks on".

The Boston hardcore scene in the early 1980s was dominated by the straight edge idea and skinhead look. Jerry's kids did not join in, but kept a "normal" look and consumed alcohol. Bob Cenci gives the Californian Black Flag as well as the British bands GBH and Discharge as musical influences of the band's early sound .

Discography

Albums

  • 1983: Is This My World? (Xclaim! Records)
  • 1989: Kill Kill Kill ( Taang! Records )

Sampler contributions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 186 .
  2. ^ BostonHassle.com: Jerry's Kids (Final Show), Straw Dogs, Mung, Moving Targets. Retrieved August 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ Matthias Mader: This is Boston not New York . 3. Edition. IP Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-931624-19-6 , pp. 99 .
  4. ↑ Ox-Fanzine # 72, June 2007: Jerry's Kids: A kid will have his say. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ NoEcho.net: Mike Grid (A&R Executive, xXx Zine). Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
  6. ↑ TrouserPress.com: Jerry's Kids. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Noise # 91, January 1990: Jerry's Kids on the Block. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ JuiceMagazine.com: Bob Cenci of Jerry's Kids. Retrieved July 10, 2016 . (Video interview, 2:10)