The Stimulators (punk band)
| The stimulators | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | New York City , United States |
| Genre (s) | punk |
| founding | 1977 |
| resolution | 1983 |
| Founding members | |
Vocals, guitar |
Patrick Mack († 1983) |
guitar |
Denise Mercedes |
| former members | |
bass |
Anne Gustavsson |
bass |
Nick Marden |
Drums |
Jerry Nolan |
Drums |
John Madansky |
Drums |
Harley Flanagan |
The Stimulators were a punk band from New York that existed from 1977 to 1983 and had a significant influence on the emergence of New York Hardcore .
history
The stimulators were founded in 1977 by Denise Mercedes and Patrick Mack. The first appearances were completed in May 1978 with Anne Gustavsson on bass and changing drummers, u. a. Jerry Nolan ( New York Dolls , The Heartbreakers ) and John "Johnny Blitz" Madansky ( Dead Boys ). In 1980, Mercedes' nephew Harley Flanagan , who was only eleven years old at the time, was hired as a permanent drummer . Also in 1980 a 7 "was recorded, afterwards bassist Gustavsson was exchanged for Nick Marden, the son of Brice Marden and nephew of Joan Baez , and a tour of Ireland was completed with this final line-up. 1982 was the only one along with another 7" The band's album, Loud Fast Rules! recorded and released on the indie label Reach Out International Records , which was still specialized in audio cassettes at the time .
With the advent of hardcore, stimulators became less important. Patrick Mack died of AIDS in 1983 and the band broke up as a result. In honor of Mack there was a memorial concert at the CBGB with several punk and hardcore bands.
Nick Marden joined the punk / hardcore band False Prophets in 1991 . Mercedes, Marden and Flanagan gave a reunion concert in 2006 as part of a charity campaign for the CBGB, in which Marden took on the vocal part. In 2010 the band's album was re-released on CD by Reachout International Records.
Style and meaning
Around 1980 there were musical changes in the New York punk scene. While many older punk bands turned to the New Wave , a scene emerged in the East Village that found punk music and clothing style to be artificial and artificial. The clubs where bands from this scene performed were A7 in the East Village, ABC No Rio in the Lower East Side , CBGB in Bowery, and Max's Kansas City in Union Square . The music of these bands was faster and more aggressive than the traditional punk bands, and one of the first of these bands was the Stimulators. Hardcore was not yet mentioned, but the founders of the first wave of New York hardcore bands were recruited from the visitors to the Stimulators concerts. Matthias Mader describes the band as one of the "midwives of the new style that called itself hardcore". Steven Blush analyzed that the stimulators triggered the rise of hardcore in New York through their concerts, where the later scene met.
Discography
- 1982: Loud Fast Rules! (Album, Reach Out International Records)
Web links
- The stimulator at Discogs (English)
- Memorial website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steven Taylor: False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground, p. 93.Wesleyan University Press 2003.
- ↑ Flyer of the memorial concert for Patrick Mack. Retrieved May 5, 2015 .
- ^ VillageVoice.com: Agnostic Front's Victim in Pain at 25. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Review in Verbicide Magazine. Retrieved May 10, 2015 .
- ^ Matthias Mader: Ney York City Hardcore - The Way It Was ..., p. 132. IP Verlag 2011
- ↑ Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A Tribal History, p. 193. Feral House, 2nd edition 2010.