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America's Hardcore

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Official A.HC. site Originally formed in early 1982 as Section 8, from North Hollywood, CA, in the San Fernando Valley. Changed name to America's Hardcore in late 1982. We only lasted about a year, until around Oct. 1983, but it was a hell of a year, with about 20 live shows, half outside of Los Angeles (San Fransisco, Fresno, Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson). Played shows with Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, Necros, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, Vandals, Sin 34, 7 Seconds, Die Kreuzen, Social Unrest, Dr. Know, Aggression, Secret Hate, Bad Religion, the Fuck Ups, Tourist, Battalion of Saints, Youth Brigade, Verbal Abuse, CH3, 45 Grave, and many more ...). Discography, few pics, and our MRR interview on Kill From the Heart , an early 80's hardcore punk resource. Note: correction to KFH website, our track on We Got Power Vol2, Party Animal is "Open Your Eyes", not "A.HC."
Los Angeles punk scene as seen by Flipside Fanzine (check out the cover for ..38!).
A punk rock flyer archive . Two songs from the Flipside video set at the Rollerworks, April 1983!
Special thanks to John O'Brien for posting this video
DannySlam's favorite past time, for 25 years and slammin' ...
Nov. 27, 2007 Former A.HC. bassist, Scott Kosar, is seen leading a radical, religious demonstration against the good folks at Warner Bros.

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Member Since: 4/12/2006
Band Members: DannySlam (vocals)
Drew Bernstein (guitar)
Scott Kosar, John O'Brian, Renato 'Ron' Cerro (bass)
Pat Muzingo, Aaron Glascock (drums) Original Section 8 line up with DannySlam, Scott, Raffi Agopian, Drew, and more drummers than Spinal Tap (Danny Bamba, Tim Moocher, Bobby Shayer, and Pat). Members in other bands:
Pre-A.HC.: Drew (The Atoms), Aaron (Mad Society), Pat (The Atoms, Decry)
Post-A.HC.: Drew (Crucifix), Pat (Junkyard), Bobby (Bad Religion), Raffi (Tourist, Capitol Radio), Ron (Naturecore) We also thank Darin Price (FFF, Disability, Tourist, Capitol Radio) for pushing us in the early Section 8 days. Darin was at every practice giving us ideas and good feedback.
Influences: All early 1980's harcore/punk bands from across the U.S. and the world:
Adolescents, Articles of Faith, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Black Flag, BL'AST!, China White, CIA, Circle Jerks, Circle One, Dead Kennedys, Die Kreuzen, Discharge, Double Cross, DRI, FEAR, The Freeze, F.U.s, Gang Green, The Germs, Government Issue, Minor Threat, Necros, Negative Approach, Scream, 7 Seconds, Social Distortion, Social Unrest, SS Decontrol, State of Alert, The Stains, Stretch Marks, Teen Idles, TSOL, Verbal Abuse, Wasted Youth
How's this for influences!??
Black Flag 1981 (Revenge, from the film: The Decline of Western Civilization)
.. TSOL/Visious Circle (probably the best band to come out of the whole damn scene)
Circle Jerks, early 80's - CHECK OUT THE PIT ACTION, FUCK YEAH!
of course, Minor Threat!
Die Kreuzen (Wisconsin) - great fucking band, one of my faves
D.R.I. (Texas/Frisco) - crazy fuckin' fast H.C.!

DKs
Bad Brains
SS Decontrol (Boston, not LA)

Type of Label: Major

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Check out these new bands! (1)

What's up people, these new bands caught my attention:Government WarningDestroy L.A.AlokeThe BronxThe Wrecking CrewTriple ThreatKervinTerezodu
Posted by on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:45:00 GMT

A.HC. live shows history

A record (this is a partial list) of our live shows:10/30/82 (as Section 8) T-Bird Roller Drome, Pico Rivera, CACH3, Bad Religion, Shattered Faith, Minutemen, Sin34, Tourist, Section 8, ...01/21/83 (a...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:55:00 GMT

America's Hardcore setlist, 1983, Cathay de Grande, Hollywood

I just received a 10th generation "bootleg" live recording of America's Hardcorefrom Jeff at The Anti-Emo Empire (thanks, Jeff!).This is a recording from one of our 1983 shows at the Cathay de Grande ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:30:00 GMT