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Justice League

About Me

Justice League was a Pomona, CA based band that existed from 1983-1988. They released a 7" ep, a 12" lp, a 12" ep, as well as a few compilation tracks. They played over a hundred shows, both locally and nationwide, with such bands as Social Distortion, Youth of Today, 7 Seconds, Descendents, Dag Nasty, Uniform Choice, The Vandals, MDC, Crippled Youth, Gang Green, Dr. Know, NOFX, and more.

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Member Since: 28/09/2005
Band Website: This is it...
Band Members: 1983-1984 (first couple shows) Trevor Raham - vocals Ryan Hoffman - bass Ted Edeson - guitar Skip Turner - drums1984 (Flipside video lineup) Jon Roa - vocals Ryan Hoffman - bass Ted Edeson - guitar Skip Turner - drums1984 (We Got Power lineup) Jon Roa - vocals Ryan Hoffman - guitar John Godfrey - bass Skip Turner - drums1985 (Think or Sink lineup) Jon Roa - vocals Ryan Hoffman - guitar John Godfrey - bass Skip Turner - drums Ted Edeson - guitar1985 (Empty Skulls lineup) Jon Roa - vocals Ryan Hoffman - guitar Skip Turner - drums Fred Mahintorabi - guitar Marc Maxey - bass1986 (Shattered Dreams lineup) Ryan Hoffman - guitar Skip Turner - drums Fred Mahintorabi - guitar Marc Maxey - bass Casey Jones - vocals1986 (summer tour lineup) Ryan Hoffman - guitar, vocals Skip Turner - drums, vocals Fred Mahintorabi - guitar, vocals Marc Maxey - bass, vocals1986-1987 (Reach Out lineup) Ryan Hoffman - guitar, vocals Fred Mahintorabi - guitar, vocals Marc Maxey - bass, vocals Chris Bratton - drums1987 (summer tour lineup) Ryan Hoffman - guitar, vocals Marc Maxey - guitar, vocals Chris Bratton - drums John McKeown - bass Matt Baker - guitar1988 ("reunion" show lineup) Ryan Hoffman - bass Chris Bratton - drums Fred Mahintorabi - guitar Jon Roa - vocals
Influences: Early on- Minor Threat, Stalag 13, America's Hardcore, Social Distortion, DYS, SSD, Faith, 7 SecondsLater on- Dag Nasty, Rites of Spring, Husker Du, Squirrelbait, The Smiths, REM, The Replacements
Record Label: Fartblossom / Positive Force / Mendit
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new JL feature on Double Cross

http://doublecrosswebzine.blogspot.com/
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:29:00 GMT

Interview from 1987

http://www.threateningsociety.com/4_justice_league.html For the most part Marc = John & John = Marc, but a great read anyway...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:44:00 GMT

cool article on Lost website

http://www.lostenterprises.com direct link- http://www.lostenterprises.com/prod/newsArtical.php?ID=1181
Posted by on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:00:00 GMT

Justice League Youtube video from 1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGzeBV--q28
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:51:00 GMT

When good punk goes bad...

http://dissonance.libsyn.com/ Awesome!
Posted by on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:10:00 GMT

'86 tour part 2

After Boise I believe we went to Boulder, CO to play in some guy's basement with a couple bands from Wisconsin. One of them was called 1096. We were a bit surprised when Agnostic Front and GBH, ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:14:00 GMT

'86 tour, part 1

With Casey out of the picture, we toyed briefly with the idea of asking Jon to do the tour but decided against it. We divided up the songs and decided to sing them ourselves.  We pooled our money...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:46:00 GMT

history continued

Chapter Three - Casey      Around the beginning of '86 Jon quit the band.  He was replaced by our friend from Orange County, Casey Jones.  While only playing 2 shows (Ren...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:47:00 GMT

History Lesson - Part 2

Chapter Two - my introduction      In May of 1985 Ted quit again, and it was decided that I should replace John Godfrey on bass.  John was a nice guy but didn't really fit in ...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:08:00 GMT

Shattered Dreams featured on punkvinyl.com

http://www.punkvinyl.com/2005/10/17/selections-from-the-punk -vault-justice-league/
Posted by on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:02:00 GMT