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SSD (Society-System Decontrol) was a Boston hardcore band. They released two albums as SS Decontrol and later formally changed their name to SSD. As SSD they released two more albums, but with a much more hard rock influenced sound. However the group is often simply referred to, including all its periods, as SSD. Boston is a town and small port c. ...
Hardcore punk—also known as hardcore in the punk rock and heavy metal scenes—is a faster, heavier version of punk rock, characterized by short, loud, and often passionate songs. ...
Hard rock is a form of rock and roll music which finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock. ...
Formed by songwriter/guitarist Al Barile (then a machinist at the General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts and a student at Northeastern University), SSD started performing at smaller venues throughout the greater Boston metropolitan area in the summer of 1981. The band quickly gained notoriety within the local music scene for intense perfomances charged and for the provocative antics of its core group of followers, the Boston Crew. Al Barile was the guitar player for the early 1980s Boston hardcore punk band SSD. He also ran X-Claim Records, which put out several important early Boston LPs from bands like DYS and Jerrys Kids. ...
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Lynn is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts. ...
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1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Boston Crew refers to a loose collective of Straight Edge musicians and roadies/crew members from Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1980s who were related to hardcore punk bands like DYS, SSD and Slapshot. ...
Vocal advocates of the Straight Edge lifestyle the original lineup of Barile, Springa (David Spring) on vocals, Jaime Sciarappa on bass and Chris Foley on drums released their debut EP The Kids Will Have Their Say on their own X-Claim label in 1982. Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat was a friend and supporter and his Dischord label's logo appeared on the back cover. For the drawing or cutting tool, see Straightedge. ...
Born David Spring in Quincy, Massachusetts Springa is a writer and singer. ...
Jaime Sciarappa is a Boston area bass player best known for his work with 1980s hardcore punk bands SSD and Slapshot. ...
Chris Foley (born in Wellesley, Massachusetts) is a drummer best known for his work with Boston hardcore band SSD in the early and mid 1980s. ...
The Kids Will Have Their Say is an album by the Boston hardcore band SSD. The album was released in 1982 as a split-release between Dischord and X-Claim records (catalog numbers x-claim 1/dischord 7 1/2). ...
X-Claim Records was a early 80s punk/hardcore record label based in the Boston-area, founded by SS Decontrol guitar-player Al Barile, but owned and operated by essentially nobody, and existing mostly as a name and a logo used by general consent. ...
Ian MacKaye (pronounced Mc-Eye) (b. ...
Minor Threat was a short-lived but incredibly influential hardcore punk band from Washington DC, often credited with starting the straight edge movement. ...
Dischord founders Ian Mackaye and Jeff Nelson Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based record label specializing in D.C.-area independent punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore music. ...
In 1983 they added second guitarist Francois Levesque and released Get it Away. This EP is widely regarded to be their best record. The X-Claim pressings of it and The Kids Will Have Their Say are both highly collectable. Francois Levesque was the guitarist for Boston hardcore band SSD in the early and mid 1980s. ...
Like many hardcore bands SSD, as they were now officially called, were heading in a heavy metal direction. In 1984 they signed to the Boston label Modern Method and released the How We Rock EP which reflected this. After signing to Homestead they released the Break it Up LP in 1985. Their first (and only) full length LP it also had both feet planted in the metal genre. Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1967 and 1974, mixed blues and rock to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by the...
SSD broke up in 1985.
Jaime Sciarappa went on to play bass with the Boston hardcore band Slapshot for a short time. High energy band of the straight edge movement. ...
After the breakup Springa went on to front the short lived band Razorcaine and the comedy rock projects Die Blitzkinder (with The Slaves) and Springa as Tom Jones. His flamboyant persona and lounge lizard lifestyle during this time stood in marked contrast to the straight edge rhetoric of SS Decontrol. In the early 1990s he would move to Chicago to pursue comedy further with The Second City. Die Blitzkinder was a comedy rock project that peformed in Boston clubs in 1989 and 1990. ...
The Slaves were a Boston rock band that formed out of the ashes of garage revivalists The Prime Movers in the mid 1980s. ...
Springa as Tom Jones was a comic performance art piece that Springa from SSD performed around Boston in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...
The Second City is a long-running improvisational comedy troupe based in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago, with offshoot troupes in other cities, most notably Toronto. ...
In 1991 Al Barile compiled Power for Taang! records. It spans SSD's entire career and is the only official release in print today. In the early 1990s he took up the bass guitar and he and Levesque formed the hardcore band Gage.
Chris Foley went on to play drums for Bulkhead, Jennifer Trynin and Star Ghost Dog. Today he plays with Heavy Stud. Jennifer Trynin, commonly Jen Trynin, is a singer-songwriter from Boston. ...
In the summer of 2004 Springa was seriously injured in a car accident outside of Boston. A gala benefit featuring Evan Dando and reunions of The Outlets and Jerry's Kids raised money for his medical expenses. SSD did not perform. Evan Griffith Dando was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 4, 1967. ...
Well loved 1980s Boston rock band consisting of David Alex Barton on vocals, his brother Rick Barton on lead guitar, Mike County on Bass and Walter Gustafson on drums. ...
One of the earliest Boston hardcore bands, Jerrys Kids had their first recorded output on the Modern Method compilation LP in 1982, on which they contributed 6 tracks, most of which were around the 30 second mark in length. ...
Springa has since experienced a full recovery and is working on a rock opera.
Discography
- The Kids Will Have Their Say(X-Claim, 1982)
- Get It Away (X-Claim, 1983)
- How We Rock (Modern Method, 1984)
- Break It Up, (Homestead, 1985)
- Power (Taang!, 1991)
The Kids Will Have Their Say is an album by the Boston hardcore band SSD. The album was released in 1982 as a split-release between Dischord and X-Claim records (catalog numbers x-claim 1/dischord 7 1/2). ...
See also Bostons hardcore punk scene was one of the biggest scenes in the nation, due in part to the citys working class tradition and large college presence. ...
New England Conservatory of Music in Boston Massachusetts is a U.S. state in New England. ...
External links - SSD biography
- SSD music video for "Get It Away" on BlankTV.com
- Gage
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