Slapshot

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Slapshot
General information
origin Boston , Massachusetts , USA
Genre (s) Hardcore punk , punk rock
founding 1985
Website oldtimehardcore.com
Founding members
singing
 Jack Kelly
guitar
 Steve Risteen (until 1992)
Drums
 Mark McKay (until 1992, since 1994)
Current occupation
singing
 Jack Kelly
bass
 Ryan Packer (since 2012)
guitar
 Craig Silverman (since 2010)
Drums
 Corey Koniz
former members
bass
 Jonathan Anastas (1986)
Guitar, bass
 Jordan Wood (1986-1991)
bass
 Jamie Sciarappa (1988-1990)
guitar
 Darryl Sheppard (1991-1993)
Drums
 Barry Hite (1992-1994)
guitar
 Mike Bowser (1993-1999)
Drums
 Doug McKinnon (1995)
bass
 Brian Omer (1996)
bass
 John Madden (1996)
bass
 David Link (1999)
guitar
 Ed Lalli (2002-2010)

Slapshot is an American hardcore band from Boston , Massachusetts that was formed in 1985.

Band history

In a crisis in the hardcore and straight-edge scene, the three founding members came together in 1985 to do "Old School Hardcore" together. After they discarded the name Straight Satan (after the motorcycle gang that Charles Manson protected) in favor of Slapshot (after the movie of the same name ), Jonathan Anastas joined the band. The band suffered from numerous staff changes and disagreements among the members.

The relationship with the record companies was also unsuccessful; the band said they did not receive any payments for their album 16 Valve Hate . In 1999 a tribute album titled Boston Drops The Gloves was released on TKO Records , on which bands from Boston and the surrounding area, including the Dropkick Murphys , Anal Cunt and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , cover Slapshot songs. Guitarist Craig Silverman, who joined the group in 2010, played in the New York hardcore band Agnostic Front from 2014 .

Controversy

Some members of the band were also active in a side project called Stars and Stripes . The style of this group is based on old English Oi! -Bands, the lyrics have a strong patriotic touch, which according to Jack Kelly is to be understood ironically . Nonetheless, the anti-fascist magazine Lotta pointed out that the project was very popular among the right-wing scene; in addition, Stars & Stripes albums have been licensed by right-wing rock labels, including a sub-label of Rock-O-Rama . Jack Kelly has also sung the background vocals for several songs by the controversial grindcore band Anal Cunt.

In their texts, Slapshot themselves repeatedly dealt critically with America or American politics and society. Examples of this are the song Shoot Charlton Heston , in which the Second Amendment is criticized, as well as the anti-Iraq war songs Digital Warfare and Tear It Down or the title Fuck New York from 2005.

Discography

Albums

  • 1988: Step on it ( Taang! )
  • 1990: Sudden Death Overtime (Taang!)
  • 1990: Step on it / Back on the Map (Taang!)
  • 1993: Live at SO 36 ( We Bite )
  • 1994: Unconsciousness (We Bite)
  • 1995: 16 Valve Hate (Taang! / Lost and Found )
  • 1996: Olde Tyme Hardcore (Taang! / Century Media)
  • 2001: Greatest Hits, Slashes and Crosschecks (Century Media)
  • 2003: Digital Warfare (I Scream Records)
  • 2014: Slapshot (Old Tyme Records)
  • 2016: Bloodbath in Germany (Street Justice)
  • 2018: Make America Hate Again ( Bridge Nine Records )

EPs

  • Back on the Map 12 "/ CD / MC (1986/2003, Taang!)
  • Blast Furnace 12 "/ CD / MC (1993, We Bite)
  • Olde Tyme Hardcore 12 "/ CD (1996, Taang! / Century Media)
  • Tear it down 12 "/ 7" / CD (2005, Street Justice / Spook City / Thorp)
  • I Believe 7 "(2012, Taang!)

Promos

  • Live on New England Product 7 "(2003, Bridge 9) Includes radio recordings. Free add-on for first pre-orders of the vinyl versions of Digital Warfare and the Undisputed LP by Boston band Some Kind Of Hate . Limited to 500 copies.
  • Super Pro Hardcore CD (2005, self-released ) Contains radio recordings from 2005. Only 50 copies, sold on the 2005 European tour.

Singles

  • Same Mistakes / Might makes right 7 "(1988, Taang!)
  • Firewalker 7 "(1990, Taang!)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DyingScene.com: Agnostic Front Recruit Guitarist Craig Silverman. Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
  2. ^ Review of One Man Army , Ox No. 56
  3. ↑ Right Influences in the “Hate Core” ( Memento from March 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ From the text: "The city that never sleeps, is the city I wish would die - But two planes later and you're still there, keep looking at the sky "