The Mob (hardcore band)
| The mob | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | New York (USA) |
| Genre (s) | Hardcore |
| founding | 1980, 2011 |
| resolution | 1991 |
| Founding members | |
singing |
Ralph Gebbia |
guitar |
Jack Flanagan († 2019) |
bass |
John Frawley (until 1981) |
Drums |
Nicko (until 1981) |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Ralph Gebbia |
guitar |
Jack Flanagan († 2019) |
guitar |
Christopher Hackett (1986, since 2011) |
bass |
Jose Gonzales (since 1981) |
Drums |
Jamie Shanahan (since 1981) |
The Mob is an American hardcore band from New York . She was one of the first wave of New York Hardcore bands and reformed in 2011 after a 20-year hiatus.
history
The Mob was founded in 1980 by Jack Flanagan, who left the hardcore band Heart Attack to start his own band. His colleagues were Ralph Gebbia, John Frawley and "Nicko", whose surname Flanagan "never knew" according to his own statement. Originally founded as a hard rock cover band, the quartet turned to the burgeoning hardcore scene inspired by attending a concert by the Bad Brains . Together with other bands on the New York scene such as Reagan Youth , Kraut or the Beastie Boys , they played in the few clubs that allowed the often chaotic hardcore concerts, such as the CBGBs or the A7 . A first demo tape was recorded in late 1980. In 1981 Frawley moved back to Heart Attack and was replaced by Jose Gonzales. In the same year, drummer Nicko was replaced by Jamie Shanahan. In 1982 the first EP with nine tracks was released, following the DIY idea of the scene on a dedicated label, on which Urban Waste's first EPs were also published. The band also played a pioneering role in networking the New York scene with bands from Washington, Boston and California. In 1984 The Mob did three concerts as the opening act for the Ramones in addition to a few tours . In the line-up Gebbia-Flanagan-Gonzales-Shanahan, the band remained active until 1991. This was followed by a 20-year break, which was only interrupted by sporadic appearances. In 1996 a compilation album was released with previously unpublished material and in 1998 the recording of a concert for the radio station WFMU . In 2011 the last line-up got together again for regular appearances together with the second guitarist Christopher Hackett, who had recorded the bass tracks on the only studio album We Come to Crush .
Guitarist Flanagan played for Murphy's Law in 1991 and 1993 and runs the New York-based artist agency Issachar Entertainment. Bass player Gonzales played in the reggae band Zion Train, founded by Bad Brains members in the 1980s.
Style and meaning
In early 1980 there were hardcore concerts in New York, but no local bands. The Stimulators , the False Prophets and a few other bands played proto-hardcore, fast-paced and aggressive punk, otherwise the bands came from outside the city limits: The Bad Brains, Minor Threat and other bands from Washington and the surrounding area brought the sound of DC hardcore to New York, California hardcore bands such as Black Flag , the Circle Jerks or the Dead Kennedys also performed occasionally . Influenced above all by the Bad Brains and the Stimulators, hardcore bands were founded in New York from 1980, whose music was described by the Village Voice magazine as "no-frills squall". In addition to Even Worse , Heart Attack, Kraut, the Nihilistics , Reagan Youth and Urban Waste , the first wave also included The Mob, which are sometimes referred to as New York's first hardcore band in literature. Music journalist Steven Blush calls The Mob's music "Proto-Mosh" and admits that the band pioneered New York Hardcore. The music journalist Matthias Mader described The Mob's music as "hyper-fast punk rock" and as a "beautiful example of the early New York sound". The most important sound engineer of the first wave of New York Hardcore, Jerry "Jay Dublee" Williams, calls The Mob "the first pure NYHC band". The style of the album We Come to Crush is described in Maximumrocknroll magazine as an “energetic blast of excitement”. In the New York Hardcore 1980-1990 collection of interviews by music journalist Tony Rettman, guitarist Todd Youth ( Agnostic Front , Murphy's Law, Danzig ) referred to the band as " the bridge band " (that made the transition from punk to hardcore), while Jesse Malin looked back to them as "Faster than everyone else".
Discography
- 1982: Upset the System (EP, Mob-Style Records)
- 1986: We Come to Crush (Big City Records)
- 1996: No Rules in This Game (Another Planet Records)
- 1998: The Truth over the Airwaves (ZDF Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Facebook.com: "The Mob" band profile. Retrieved April 7, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Tony Rettman: New York Hardcore from 1980 to 1990 . 2nd Edition. Bazillion Points, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-935950-12-7 , pp. 88 .
- ^ VillageVoice.com: Check Out This Incredibly Deep Wellspring of New York City Hardcore Treasures. Retrieved April 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 202 .
- ^ Matthias Mader: New York City Hardcore - The Way It Was ... IP Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-931624-10-1 , pp. 135 .
- ↑ KillFromTheHeart.com: The Mob. Retrieved April 8, 2016 .