Offenders

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Offenders
General information
origin Killeen (USA)
Genre (s) Hardcore
founding 1978
resolution 1986
Founding members
singing
 David "Davy" Jones (1978–1980, † 2015)
guitar
 Anthony "Tony" Johnson († 2012)
bass
 Michael "Mikey" Donaldson († 2007)
Drums
 Patrick "Pat" Doyle
Last occupation
singing
 JJ Jacobson (1983-1986)
guitar
 Anthony "Tony" Johnson
bass
 Michael Donaldson
Drums
 Pat Doyle
former members
singing
 Michael "Mick" Buck (1980–1983)

Offenders were an American hardcore band from Killeen that existed from 1978 to 1986.

history

The band was founded in 1978 by singer David "Davy" Jones, guitarist Anthony "Tony Offender" Johnson, bassist Michael Naohiko "Mike Offender" Donaldson and drummer Pat Doyle in Killeen, Texas. In 1980 the entire band moved to Austin, a good hundred kilometers away . In the same year Jones was exchanged for the singer Michael "Mick" Buck, who was his close friend. After a 1981 single on which the band called themselves "The Offenders", Buck made way for singer JJ Jacobson, with whom the Offenders played the rest of their career. From 1984 the band, like other local bands, had problems performing in Austin, as some clubs closed and other venues withdrew hardcore bands in favor of less riotous indie rock bands. The music journalist Steven Blush blamed unsuccessful experiments with metal elements for the breakup of the band in 1986.

After the band ended, Michael Donaldson played with the alternative blues rock band Sister Double Happiness, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and MDC . In March 2002 the band members met with the original line-up for a one-time concert in Austin. Michael Donaldson died of unknown causes in 2007, Anthony Johnson of lung cancer in 2012 and Davy Jones of cancer in 2015. As part of a benefit concert for Jones' family in May 2015, a band called "The Offenders" with the participation of Pat Doyle performed in an otherwise unknown line-up.

The album We Must Rebel was reissued in 1989 by Bitzcore and in 2005 by Reflex / Wolfpack Records. In 2003 the Dutch label Kangaroo Records released the compilation album Wanted By Authority 1981-1985 . In 2004 Napalm Death covered the Offenders song Face Down In The Dirt on their album Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 . In 2009 the compilation Anthology 1981 - 1985 was released on the Danish label Just 4 Fun . In 2014, the band's two albums were re-released by Southern Lord . In 2015, the US label Beer City Records posthumously published the double album Live at CBGB's 1985 , which, in addition to a recording of the eponymous concert in New York's CBGB’s, also included recordings of a concert from 1982 and the concert from 2002.

Style and reception

The Ox-Fanzine noted in a review of the compilation album Anthology 1981 - 1985 in 2010 that the band had started stylistically with punk rock , but then made a swing to hardcore, which could be attached to "impetuous energy and technical adeptness" . Ox reviewer Joachim Hiller described the album Endless Struggle as “one of the most ingenious hardcore records of all time”, containing timeless, “angry, really massively produced hardcore”. The music journalist Steven Blush describes the band as a "classic of Texas hardcore". The Canadian Exclaim! -Magazine saw the band's two albums as representative of "the intensity, passion, and fury of Reagan-era punk rock," which still have an impact on hardcore music today. The US music magazine Pitchfork described the Offenders as the most undervalued among the canonical Texan hardcore bands, while they de facto "always belonged to the top group". The magazine identified the Washington bands Void and Minor Threat as influences . The music of the Offenders is timeless, however, and by weaving in metal influences and occasional speed reductions, the band anticipated developments in the hardcore scene that only came to fruition in the mid-1980s, on the one hand due to the increasing popularity of metal-heavy New York Hardcore , on the other through the developments towards grunge and post-hardcore indicated in the Offenders title You Got A Right .

Discography

  • 1983: We Must Rebel (R Radical Records)
  • 1985: Endless Struggle (Rabid Cat Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laurie E. Jasinski: Handbook of Texas Music . Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2012, ISBN 978-0-87611-297-7 ( tshaonline.org ).
  2. ↑ George Hurchalla: Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989 . 2nd Edition. PM Press, Oakland 2016, ISBN 978-1-62963-113-4 , pp. 246 .
  3. ^ A b Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 269 .
  4. ↑ a b Blabbermouth.net: Former The Offenders / MDC bassist Mikey Donaldson Dead At 46.Retrieved December 31, 2017 .
  5. ↑ CoyoteMusic.com: Plaidstock: Davy Jones Tribute and Fundraiser. Retrieved January 5, 2018 .
  6. ^ André Bohnensack: Anthology 1981 - 1985 . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 90, June 2010.
  7. ↑ Joachim Hiller: Endless Struggle LP / I Hate Myself / Bad Times 7 " . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 59, April 2005.
  8. ↑ Exclaim.ca: Offenders - We Must Rebel / I Hate Myself / Endless Struggle. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Pitchfork.com: Offenders - Endless Struggle. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .