The FU's

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The FU's
General information
Genre (s) Hardcore
founding 1981, 2010
resolution 1985
Founding members
singing
 John "Sox" Stocking
Guitar, vocals
 Steve Grimes
Drums
 Robert "Bob Furapples" Hatfield
Current occupation
singing
 John Stocking
guitar
 Bob Cenci
guitar
 Jonesey stunt
bass
 Richie rich
Drums
 Robert Hatfield
former members
bass
 Wayne Maestri

The FU's are an American hardcore band from Boston .

Band history

The group was formed in the summer of 1981 by singer and bassist John "Sox" Stocking, guitarist Steve Grimes and drummer Robert "Bob Furapples" Hatfield; Stocking and Hatfield found Grimes through a newspaper ad. The band name stands for the abuse "fuck you" (" fuck you ") and according to singer Stocking goes back to an interview with the singer Wendy O. Williams , in which she said that punk rock was a "fuck you" to society. In December 1981 Stocking gave up singing and playing bass at the same time and concentrated on singing; the line-up was expanded to include bassist Wayne Maestri, a friend of Grimes. In 1982 the band contributed four tracks to the compilation This Is Boston, Not LA . In the same year the debut EP Kill for Christ followed on Xclaim! Records, the Al Barile label from SSD ; the cover design came from Brian " Pushead " Schroeder. Subsequent releases My America and Do We Really Want to Hurt You were produced by Lou Giordano . My America in particular attracted attention for its political statements, which were unusual for the punk scene: the band spoke out in favor of patriotism on the record and in several interviews ; Among other things, My America contained a cover version of the song We're an American Band by Grand Funk Railroad . The punk satirists Dead Milkmen alluded to this fact later in their song Tiny Town from 1985, published from the perspective of a redneck , Big Lizard in my Backyard , in which the line “We hate blacks, and we hate jews, and we hate punks, but we love the FU's ”is included. In the mid-80s, some of the band members started playing in a band called Straw Dogs, which was also the end point for the FU's.

In 1998 a Boston hardcore band named themselves after the FU's song Civil Defense from the album Kill for Christ . In 2005 NOFX released a cover version of Civil Defense . In August 2010, the FU's reformed for a concert in Boston as part of the premiere of a documentary about the Boston hardcore scene. Since then, the band has been giving concerts regularly and in 2011 contributed a new song to a punk / hardcore sampler. Only Stocking and Hatfield are left of the original line-up.

style

The Ox-Fanzine certified the EP Kill for Christ as having "absolutely great nihilistic teen lyrics".

Discography

  • 1982: Kill for Christ ( EP , X-Claim)
  • 1983: My America (X-Claim)
  • 1984: Do We Really Want to Hurt You? (Restless Records)
  • 2012: Split EP with Söm-Hi Nöise (Black Sheep Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taang.com: The FU's ( Memento from February 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ From an interview with Joachim Hiller in Ox # 53: Band member Rahji: “I can't remember why I found Civil Defense so good as a name. It's definitely from the FU'S song, they are the greatest when it comes to hardcore. "
  3. ^ Reunion announcement
  4. ↑ Ox-Fanzine.de: Kill For Christ / My America LP. Retrieved October 10, 2016 .