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FEUD

www.takefourcollective.com

About Me

Feud started late 1998; we were all skateboarding buddies and basically it all started there. Mic and Pao got bored of their band and asked me I am interested with starting a straightedge band. The problem though is that we haven’t found a straightedge kid who might be available back then to play drum for us. We tried to talk with John-John, also a skateboarding friend, who's then playing with other band, and fortunately agreed to play with us. So since then the original line-up is still the same, Mic - Bass, Paolo- Guitar, John-John - Battery, and me Raymond - Screaming. We tried to add another guitarist but things doesn’t work for us, so 'till today we still stick to the 4-piece youthcrew unit. So with a common theme against every fucked-up thing about ourselves, about our hardcore-punk and the society as well. We found a way to express our emotions into something that we think positive, relevant, and important to us. Straightedge as always is not a label that we have to make of a big deal and for us to please any expectation, but rather it is just part of our personal choices that we find, again, relevant to our own lives, as it is always we believe that punk rock is all about thinking for yourself.

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Member Since: 11/21/2005
Band Website: takefourcollective.com
Band Members: Johndoe-Baterya PauloJr-Guitarista Mic-Bajo Raymond-Sigaw
Influences: The opportunity to be part of international compilation of straightedge band, and the fact that most of the bands included are coming from the “other than the American punk scene,” is really amazing and inspiring. Thanks to Robert of Commitment Records and Yann of the influential International Straightedge Bulletin, all of these are possible because of their hard work and support to hardcore-punk from all over the world. All of us here in Take-4 Collective understand the importance of their work and their recognition to less fortunate scene. The inspiration that they gave us, and for that our willingness to share this inspiration to others, who has the least chance of getting their hands to this kind of dedication and sincerity, are mainly the reason why hardcore is still relevant to us. Of course, that’s only one of the many examples of enormous work done by the kids throughout our history and around the globe. I know you have your own story of why hardcore-punk became an important part of your life; we all do have stories to share! Take a look at how kids get inspired to think for themselves and question the very bullying authority or society at large; a realization that you don’t have to join to a religion for us to create relevant change in our lives and without asking for anything in return. (How many times you hear a kid talking about losing money in organizing gig, making zines, activist work, without asking for anything?) Interesting to take note, how hardcore-punk became a driving force towards pursuing and continuing the struggle for human rights, environmental movement, feminism, animal rights, and other important issues. I hope you don’t take my words as another marketing gimmick of sort created by punk to sell records, but rather, as always, have an awareness if these shits make sense to you before you make judgments, take these words as a warning, as I also wish that you will be inspired to think for your own, please don’t think at the end that punk rock will save your life. Well, that’s for you to realize eventually.
Record Label: Take-4 Collective
Type of Label: Indie