Thank you so much for this! I was just a couple of years younger than them. I'm just now studying a lot of famous people. I missed out on the details bc I was out in the bar partying every night & didn't watch TV or read magazines then. This was extremely interesting to me.

I like all music if it's good. But the Misfits never moved me either way. I do like Ghost but that's about it for that style music.

I went to London in the late seventies or early eighties with my family for vacation and to meet family there. I was around six or seven and I remember seeing this man with huge spikes for hair and they were half red and half blonde. He was wearing army pants and big black boots and he had several piercings with a chain wallet hanging off his belt. He looked so scary to me that I almost cried😂. His girlfriend had a rainbow wig on and a pink tutu with big black boots like her mans. My brother is five years older than me and was starting to listen to metal music so he explained to me why those people were wearing clothes like that and he also bought me a Stooges record which I left in London 😂😢

Great video with lots of research and hard work invested in it. Thank you !

An Elliott Smith documentary would be great. The consistency of his records all being incredible isn't that well known in my opinion. Thanks for the Velvet Underground one that was really good. Am just starting the Sonic Youth one.. Thanks.

Hi mate, great stuff! I locve the bad brains, the first album is the cooler one for me, would love to find out more about their jazzy side...wanted to ask ou about the sources? you drop in a lot of quotes? do you have a book or where does this information come from? would be great for me to delve deeper . Thanks mate

Short and to the point. This was fitting. I was thirteen when I played in my first band with two of my brothers and a close friend in the very early 90s. We played Minutemen, Minor Threat and Dinosaur covers at local clubs in Fort Myers. Childhood was rough, but damn was it amazing.

The country band I play in opened for Fugazi once. We were enjoying some beers backstage before the show. I offered him one. He declined. Weird.

1990?

he crash landed his plane in the field next to our school field - we all cam out of the school to watch. Never forget that. Gary is a top lad. Much respect.

The FIVE rocked the world. How about a video on those freaks in The Pink Fairies? Or Hawkwind? Bands that spoke about REVOLUTION!!! Rock on!

great video brother.

Love muddy waters one of my favorites

I've watched a couple of your videos and enjoy what you're doing here. I also respect what you decided to focus on in the Clash video, but i think skipping Sandinista! was a major mistake. I've been a Clash fan since I bought their first album as an import before they released anything in the US. To my surprise, the Sandinista! is the album I go back to the most, especially the much maligned third disc. It sound to me like NYC in 1981 when you heard so many different styles of music coming from windows, cars, boom boxes in the streets. It's a sprawling, constantly inventive masterpiece with a massive, although subterrain influence. Everything Big Audio Dynamite and Joe Strummer's post Clash work (especially the Mezcaleros) can be traced back to it. It's also the climax of their battle with their record company when the band insisted on a cut rate price and the label retaliated by not supporting a tour. It completes part of the story and illustrates the pressure they were under that eventually flared into their break up. The album deserved some attention - and I think artistic respect.

New Wave meant one thing in the UK (from 76-78) and something totally different in the U.S. (79-82).

One thing that I think was kinda left out was one of the important reasons why Fugazi put their records out themselves. It was a money issue as much as it had to do with the punk DIY ethic. For every 50,000 records they sold, they actually made more money than a major label band that sold 500,000. Discord didn’t have the huge overhead that the majors had which was mainly generated by huge legal & production costs. They also retained complete ownership of all of their recordings. Thats also how they ran Discord Records in terms of other bands. They didn’t do record contracts. They put out records one at a time. Any band that put records out on Discord was only obligated to put that one record out and that would apply to any record they put out after that. Discord didn’t do the major label thing of signing bands to multi-record deals. It’s important to point that out because it points out how business conscious that they were. They made a lot of money, but they didn’t make it by charging more or selling more, they made it by slimming down and not taking on all the “fat” that major labels did.

Ironically, he admits that he is not a musician, does not play any musical instrument and knows nothing about music, or the recording and engineering process. However he was a master at understanding the intricacies of the creative process, cultivating and sustaining relationships, and gaining the trust of his clients. His wisdom enables him to do this in virtually any field, irrespective of the skill sets usually required to achieve success.

Great vid. Rick's a god damn legend when you look back at what he's produced. As for the nay sayers, fuck them

Thank you for this.

I've been waiting for this video. Rick Rubin is a genius. He singlehandedly saved Johnny Cash from oblivion.

Elektra was also the label of the Doors and the Stooges. They were pretty much like the "Sire" records of the 60s--the place for "cutting edge" artists. If Elektra wasn't so worried about the MC5 hurting their "cash cow" the Doors, because removing all Elektra records from record stores also meant removing the Doors records, I say they should have kept the MC5 because as good as Atlantic was for other artists, they were wrong for the MC5. No telling what better albums they would have made together if they stayed on there and not gone to Atlantic. And having a music critic produce your albums is almost always a bad idea---I'm thinking of Blue Oyster Cult as well when I say this

He dodged a bullet getting away from Russel Simmons.

No mention of The Cult?

My dad did the sound board for the Bad Brains for a bit. He said he was in a van while HR was practicing sounding like a Rastafarian and everyone was telling him to shut up and no one likes that stuff. He also said they the Bad Brains would let this high school band called the Tean Idols play between sets and the kids didn't know how to play but the Bad Brains loved them. The venue would go around unplugging equipment when the Tean Idols played and the Bad Brains would go around plugging it back in - pissing off the venue and leading to them all getting banned.

I used to hangout with Wayne Kramer during the GANGWAR years(1979 and on}Johnny Thunders and I were friends and I started to hang with Wayne.Wayne was Not taking Drugs during that time.I have a Few Gangwar Tapes and Videos that I recorded in storage.I never thought that the MC5 was a great band but JT loved Waynes guitar playing.

I saw Bad Brains in Austin in (I think) '97-and their opener was a band we'd never heard of called the Deftones. When I listen to the later Deftones'-the White Pony album and their nu-metal hits, it's clear to me how much they owe Bad Brains. Without Bad Brains-without HR, there's. no Deftones.

When you said modern music i thought you meant 2000s and on and that this guy should be reviled. But if he produced classic 80s and 90s music then he could be very admirable. I guess it depends how you define "modern" because children today consider music from 10 years ago "old," so limited is their understanding. And that's despite having unlimited access to basically the entire history of recorded music at their fingertips.

Detroit really is to the USA what Birmingham was to England. Black Sabbath got the same idea the MC5 had---crank all the amps up to match the attitude of the local factory workers. And one of the most deafening gigs of the 60s actually happened at the Grande Ballroom in 1968---a triple bill of MC5, Stooges---and Blue Cheer!

Do you take requests? “MORE PUNK, please?” Thanks man, and great job on the channel. 👍 - Jason/Freedom Fighter Until Death/Vermont, FRA (‘FRA’, meaning “The Failed Republic Of America”)

I just found your channel and took a deep dive into my past, back when I used to skate and listen to punk!! They were the best days, and they lasted for quite some time. (Later after Punk I started playing the drums and I got into more rock, then jazz fusion, then more jazz, etc …) I never stopped listening to Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Fugazi, Murphy’s Law, Angry Samoans, Dead Kennedys, and many more. I love your documentaries on these old bands, thank you! - Jason/Freedom Fighter Until Death/Vermont, FRA (‘FRA’, meaning “The Failed Republic Of America”)

Here’s some topic ideas: Andrew WK: Like, wtf? I don’t get it. Tooth and Nail Records (and that whole scene): could get spicy. 90lb Wuss was good punk though. So was Blaster the Rocket Boy/Man. Nick Cave

The father of modern American music, What!? 😂🤣

Sure Beatles and rolling Stones were so so bad

I watched the Apple Beastie Boys documentary recently and got the impression he did them wrong. His work with Johnny Cash was rad.

There's lots to love on all 3 albums, releasing a live album as your debut is a baller move, but they managed to bottle the lightning. I'd recommend Wayne Kramer's memoir _The Hard Stuff_ and his solo album of the same name & _Dangerous Madness._

He did beastie boys, run dmc & slayer. The guys a legend.

I was a punk kid and I loved GC, saw them live a bunch of times and each time they were superb, genuine nice guys too. I'm 41 now and still throw on a GC album and wear the odd t-shirt.. forever greatful for the early 00s!

Thanks!

No, Richard was born in 1951 not 1949

Hey man! I have a podcast and 50 years of music obsession. I have some ideas for you. I watched the whole thing and get what you are saying. I was there seeing almost every band you have highlighted. I can give you perspective and inside information. Let me know if you’re interested. I just love sharing the music and stories and experiences with people who care about music the way we do.

An interesting point is that John Sinclair was said to have been busted with 2 joints and got him 10 years. Long about that time another John “Lennon” heard about it and joined a concert to raise money for his family this resulted in Johns song titled John Sinclair witch brought attention to the arrest for whatever reason he was released from jail days later.