Marginal Man (band)

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Marginal Man
General information
origin Washington , USA
Genre (s) Hardcore punk
founding 1983
resolution 1988
Last occupation
singing
 Steve Polcari
Guitar, vocals
 Peter Murray
guitar
 Kenny Inouye
bass
 Andre Lee
Drums
 Mike Manos

Marginal Man was a Washington-based hardcore band that is thought to be part of the first wave of DC hardcore .

history

Marginal Man was founded in 1983. Singer Steve Polcari, guitarist Peter Murray and drummer Mike Manos had previously played with Artificial Peace , which had broken down in 1982 due to personal problems; Murray later claimed that the three were "bored" by the artificial peace bassist Rob Moss and had "broken up and secretly and quickly reformed under another name". The new band was completed by bassist Andre Lee and guitarist Kenny Inouye, who had previously played with a band called Toasterhead; the five met at a party and agreed on the new band after just one rehearsal. The group named itself after the "Marginal Man Theory", a theory of the sociologists Robert Ezra Park and Everett V. Stonequist to identify the identity of people with several cultural backgrounds (" marginal riders "). The first concert took place in January 1983 as opening act for The Faith and Minor Threat at Club 9:30 in Washington. The band was well connected within the Washington scene; Ian MacKaye produced the first album at Inner Ear Studios. Marginal Man were one of the first bands on the Washington hardcore scene to use two guitarists, and one of the first bands to tour outside of the US East Coast. In the five and a half years of its existence, the band completed two North American tours and numerous concerts in their extended home region. From about 1986 the band stagnated; although they regularly played sold-out concerts in the Washington area, they stopped writing songs and stopped touring. In terms of content, the band has now distanced itself from the political activism of the DC hardcore scene; Polcari and Murray in particular focused on expressing emotions instead of political statements. In March 1988, the band split after two sold out farewell shows at 9:30. The last album Marginal Man was released posthumously.

In 1991, 1995 and 2011 the band reunited with the original line-up for one concert each in Washington.

Guitarist Peter Murray played drums in the Kansas City- based post-hardcore band Season to Risk in the early 1990s . Guitarist Kenny Inouye is the son of former US politician Daniel Inouye . The fact that a son of a Republican senator played in a band of the traditionally left-wing hardcore scene during the Reagan era seems remarkable from today's perspective, but was ignored at the time. Daniel Inouye is mentioned in the credits of the double image album as he subjected the band's record deal to a legal review.

Style and reception

Marginal Man were more punk than other DC Hardcore bands in terms of playing tempo and melody . The music journalist Mark Andersen attributes the specific marginal man sound with two guitars to the British band Buzzcocks and points out that, unlike many contemporary hardcore bands, Marginal Man wrote not only political texts but also emotions analyzing texts. The Touch-and-Go - Fanzine certified the band with a "great feeling for dynamism" and assessed that Marginal Man is one of the few examples that "a good band (Artificial Peace) breaks apart and creates a great band (Marginal Man)" . The Allentown- based daily newspaper The Morning Call highlighted an "intense, stunning double guitar attack" as the main characteristic of the band and described the band as "one of the more promising punk bands in the flourishing Washington region".

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins: Punk, DC . Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-931555-86-0 , p. 139 .
  2. ↑ a b MCall.com: Marginal Man. Discontent On The Punk Border. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ AllMusic.com: Marginal Man Biography. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ ThisIsAlbatross.com: Interview: Marginal Man Kenny Inouye. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 7, 2017 ; Retrieved April 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thisisalbatross.com
  5. ↑ Dischord.com: Marginal Man. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  6. ^ Southern.com: Marginal Man ( Memento of March 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 169 .
  8. ^ Tesco Vee & Dave Stimson: Touch and Go. The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79 -'93 . 3. Edition. Bazillion Points, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-9796163-8-9 , pp. 515 .