You're reaction was awful. Imagine people of colour playing punk. Your ignorance is offensive
@budburnz67586 ай бұрын
Not only were the Bad Brains a part of this whole punk/hardcore scene, but they were also quite possibly THE MOST influential bands from this era. When this band came to New York City in 1982, all the kids in CBGB's went on to form their own bands, and an entire subgenre, New York Hardcore, was born. Bad Brains were so influential in NYC that they basically gave birth to the entire next wave of bands that will come out of New York City, who were basically emulating what the Bad Brains did. I wish more people knew how influential Bad Brains were to punk rock and Hardcore Music. More people should also know how influential reggae was to this scene. Also, how multi-cultural this scene was.
@otreborzedalav17 ай бұрын
you are inside the rabbit hole, enjoy it and love this history.
@michaellamb95968 ай бұрын
American punk royalty
@Dammm726 ай бұрын
what you heard at first is not original punk rock but already a tendency towards hardcore punk, in fact one of the most important bands in that scene🤘
@gregchaplik44588 ай бұрын
Bad Brains influenced so many bands.
@Krust_Acean8 ай бұрын
Check out Minor Threat. They are both from Washington DC and were from the same scene. Beastie Boys opened up for them
@heathcornbeef7 ай бұрын
Kia Ora hello from Aotearoa new zealand HELL YEAH MINOR THREAT and how about some FUGAZI who as well as BAD BRAINS I've been Lucky enough to have seen here in Aotearoa new zealand FKING AMAZING
@karlsteen21735 ай бұрын
52 yr old dude from Norway here. Bad Brains on cassette walk-man as freshman 💕 Big love!
@ignoblesavage55592 ай бұрын
54 yo American of Norwegian descent here. Got into them in 1988. Quickness was the 1st album of theirs i got (cassette, of course), but immediately afterward i bought the self titled, I Against I, & Banned in DC.
@raineramelung73807 ай бұрын
Hi. As a Punk kid in the early 80,s, we loved this Band.... Greedings from Germany. 🎸👍
@jfender80237 ай бұрын
originally called “mind power” as a jazz fusion band switching their genre in 77 to punk with a interest in reggae after seeing Marley. With rotating members there was the obvious stylistic music changes we hear in the 80s
@gartgreenside36578 ай бұрын
You need to listen to them on studio recordings as well to appreciate the musicality... great reaction... ;-)
@hinterwelter8 ай бұрын
The mighty Bad Brains! Thank you!
@slugcult19736 ай бұрын
The most important punk rock bands ever. Legends. Nobody did it better. Seeing them live changed my life. They started in DC, but were soon banned from playing in all the clubs so they came to NYC. Which I'm glad they did, because I grew up there.
@jay-remedy-plz8 ай бұрын
Soul Craft from “With The Quickness” 1990ish.
@rdiddy14118 ай бұрын
A lot of the footage from the House of Suffering video is from a live show in Florida and theres some solid quality videos of that show. I would recommend it for a better appreciation of how tight, fast, and interesting this band is. There are some very good reggae songs they play in between the chaos. If there was one band I could go back and time and see live before I was born, it would be them. I think they were playing jazz fusion (so you know they have to be good musicians) before they stumbled upon the Ramones play and they wanted to change their sound to more effectively deliver their message. If I recall correctly from a documentary I watched about the band, their self-titled record was the fastest played album in terms of tempo ever recorded to that point.
@jasonmarquis75865 ай бұрын
These guys were a huge influence on this 80s suburbia kid. You gotta check out 'I against I,' next.
@sukhbir62467 ай бұрын
American not Jamaican, though they are devout Rastafarians. Also, here in the UK, Punk and Rasta have a close connection (not sure about the US or anywhere else regarding this). But yes, the Bad Brains are Punk / Hardcore royalty and for me, nobody did it better.
@tierbore19858 ай бұрын
Best band ever
@arkterror6162 ай бұрын
there is a red head girl in front row singing along, that was CBGB NYC in 1982 that was me and my friends lol
@michaelalguire14437 ай бұрын
How the hell is thus band not in the rock n roll hall of fame?
@MuchoMas6408 ай бұрын
They also played reggae in their set.. the singer had a solo albums strictly reggae. hR
@MuchoMas6408 ай бұрын
GOAT.. can you check out the song Coptic Times… very relevant for today.. love the page!
@Clarkchapin8 ай бұрын
I caught Bad Brains at so many shows over the years in DC. HR was famous for his repeated backflips on stage.
@Clarkchapin8 ай бұрын
We didn’t call it a mosh pit. We just called it thrashing, then The Washington Post ran an article titled Slam Dancing in the Big City sometime around 1981 and suddenly everyone wanted to “slam”. It was an annoying reduction of riotous enthusiasm with individual style of flailing, raging dance to an intentional contact sport. Same thing maybe, but with less style and altered intent. Moshing was just slamming with even less room for expression. It all also corresponded to more and more crowded scenes and women getting relegated further and further back. You should check out anything you can find on the Punk/Funk shows in DC in the early and mid eighties. DC’s emblematic style of music is GoGo music and combining the hardcore punk scene and the GoGo funk/rap scene totally worked. Trouble Funk were the kings back then.
@heathcornbeef7 ай бұрын
Kia Ora hello brother from Aotearoa new zealand hay I've seen these awesome dudes here these guys changed my life direction in early 1984 14 years old. Hardcore wouldn't be what it is without BAD BRAINS. I don't understand why it's so hard to UNDERSTAND a black band doing PUNKROCK where did we get blues rock N roll ska reggae from our black brothers and sisters and i am very grateful for that
@MugnifyRTS7 ай бұрын
I understand where punk rock is a child of, I just didn't think a Jamaican band would be there mother of it all
@michaelmalone72313 ай бұрын
Bad Brains were the epitome of the underground punk scene in the 80s. In the height of blockbuster movie soundtracks, 70s artists like Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and Rod Stewart getting there second wind in the video age and hair bands mugging for the camera, ........you had this chaos slam dancing (not moshing) in small clubs, basements, abandoned churches or wherever. One of the original hardcore punk bands. They later incorporated thrash in their music. But honestly, thrash was metal's answer to punk. So, it was all cyclical. And throwing a reggae groove on top of that. The chef's kiss! Should be in the Rock and Hall of Fame as an early influence entry, at least!
@shanespringer54953 ай бұрын
These guys are from Washington DC,started in 77,they also play reggae..and HR their singer had a long solo career in Reggae..they are pioneers of Hardcore..which is a mixture of punk n metal..
@yourneighborkevin2 ай бұрын
“I gotta confront it.” Thanks for taking everybody with you. Been a Bad Brains fan forever. I assume somebody has hipped you to their Jamaican/Rasta roots, maybe HR’s long standing mental health issues, and the DC/NY hardcore scene’s intense energy in the 80’s. This stuff was underground then, and really dated now. But Bad Brains was hugely influential for a whole lot of bands (mostly comprised of angry young men).
@jamiecope5382Ай бұрын
You should watch this actual video until the very end.HR does a standing backflip.
@OzzybinOswald8 ай бұрын
They got on stage abd played. Thats how it happened. Early English punks were very influenced by Jamaican and island sounds.
@Lovergirlstudiio8 ай бұрын
Yes you can even hear it in the music!
@connexionnature45835 ай бұрын
Bad brains CBGB, pffff... I don't know what happened this night but it happened. Legend. It's like a full moment of connexion of a lot of things between reggae, punk and slavery catharsis. Like a point of expression of all the american tension lines
@jasonmarquis75865 ай бұрын
Everything that you think came out of the 90s was actually just a carbon copy of something from the 70s or 80s, just made more maudlin.
@CrankedUpReallyHigh18 ай бұрын
Thank you for this. Great thoughts/comments. I’m 59 and have seen many great bands, but the Bad Brains circa early 1980s remain THEE greatest live band I’ve ever seen. No one else has really come close. I’ve heard many others say the same. I got to see them many times in 1981 and 1982 at CBGB (where the third video was shot). At that time, this type of dancing was called slam dancing; it came to be called moshing a little later. You’re right re: there not being many women in the pit in this particular 1982 clip, but rest assured there were women at these shows and many of the most important figures of the early punk/hardcore scene were women. Anyway, really enjoyed this and thx again for sharing it. PS: The Bad Brains are originally from DC and actually started out as a jazz rock fusion band. In 1977, when a buddy turned them onto then-new albums by early punk bands like the Dead Boys, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and others, they decided to play punk rock themselves; after seeing Bob Marley live they started playing reggae as well and mixed reggae songs in with the punk stuff. These guys changed my life. Greatest.
@CrankedUpReallyHigh18 ай бұрын
Check out this clip from 1980. H.R. would often do standing flips on stage, as seen here.❤ kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2TRhKammKecr8Usi=kKE_-tngKYk-EbFQ
@pmorley77348 ай бұрын
You're a fan for life now!
@violetfemme4118 ай бұрын
Yeah, shit was crazy. Here's one girl that was quite proud of the lumps and bumps I got at an Iggy Pop show 😮💜
@mattjohn47317 ай бұрын
Rad! I think he invented stage-diving. And he dove on me in like 2000 lol. I think I saw 2 solo and 2 Stooges reunion gigs. Iggy is the godfather (of punk)
@mattjohn47317 ай бұрын
Iggy doesn't weight much so diving on fans is not assault.
@heathcornbeef7 ай бұрын
Hay that's LORD IGGY POP please
@ExUSSailor2 ай бұрын
Moshing was definitely earlier than the 90s, back then, it was called "slam dancing", or, just "slamming". In fact, the term "moshing" was actually coined by HR, Bad Brains vocalist, himself.
@jddavila73824 ай бұрын
We loved the Bad Brains back in the day. The pit was all in good fun, we came back with black eyes from every show.
@leejones88483 ай бұрын
One of the greatest bands ever, saw them in the Uk about 1982, awesome, this is proper music, none of your Britain/ America's got talent nonsense ✊️
@AngloSaks6663 ай бұрын
The second video is the latest one chronologically. 1987. I saw them that year, in fact, in London. Also I saw them in 83 in Brixton, London.
@indeliblyinked2 ай бұрын
I’m 49. Bad Brains are legends and our heroes. Their reggae is legit too. Peace.
@ignoblesavage55592 ай бұрын
You asked how it happened: 1) BB started out jazz/fusion, got aggressive and 2) added hardcore punk rock, then 3) threw in some reggae, incorporated elements from all 3 styles of music... these guys somehow kept it RAW while still being very progressive. Their career arc is wild.
@mickdee-l8u2 ай бұрын
Bad Brains are said to have coined the term "mosh" due to HR (the lead singer) saying "mash" to the crowd and with his accent it sounded like "mosh" This is from ChatGPT: The term "mosh" as it relates to energetic dancing at concerts, particularly within punk and heavy metal subcultures, is generally credited to the hardcore punk scene of the early 1980s. It is often associated with bands from Washington, D.C. and New York City. Specifically, the band Bad Brains, who were active in the early 1980s, are frequently mentioned in discussions about the origins of moshing. They are believed to have popularized the term "mash" which evolved into "mosh" through their energetic performances and the intense dancing that their music inspired among fans.
@garse70Ай бұрын
LEGENDS! Best live band I’ve ever seen
@johncarpenter85272 ай бұрын
Bad Brains, to me.. are arguably one of the best punk bands to have ever been recorded in musical history. When I first heard banned in DC I was fucking mind blown by how catchy and raw that shit was. I fuckin love bad brains dude they are classic for sure
@thomaswhitehead62457 ай бұрын
Punk rock and hip hop were intertwined by us the people and just kids growing up. Music unites.
@therealmisspiggy6667 ай бұрын
punk royalty. Saw a modern lineup of Bad brains in the 90's. it's a crucial to black music history.
@AngloSaks6663 ай бұрын
The punks pretty much invented the 'mosh pit', though it had some vague origins elsewhere, and parallel development in other genres to some extent too. Nothing was fully isolated.
@tylerdavis62035 ай бұрын
Bad Brains was the most intense, bad ass hardcore band I ever saw live .Nothing else came close. HR did fucking standing backflips on stage mid song.... their shows were insane!
@melanieramirez36592 ай бұрын
I’m a huge killswitch Engage fan the singer Jesse always gives props too the Bad Brains. I did a research on them, hands down too this dope Band 🤘🏽
@Lovergirlstudiio8 ай бұрын
All the punk rockers would tell you how they are literally the best and the religious spiritual experiences were had watching HR perform like you need to see the vision and how dope and creative this is
@MugnifyRTS8 ай бұрын
The whole experience was just me trying to process in my mind that Jamaican's pioneered punk rock to some degree
@Lovergirlstudiio8 ай бұрын
@@MugnifyRTS HR also coined the term moshing originally he said mashing but bc of his accent came out as moshing and that’s how that word started. The band is known for their positive lyrics in rock music like their popular song attitude where he sings about PMA “positive mental attitude”. Most talented rock musicians and HR the best vocalist, and was very charismatic performer that people were blown away by. That man would be doing back flips at every performance.
@Lovergirlstudiio8 ай бұрын
@@MugnifyRTS yeah but rock was started by a black woman Ms. Sister Tharpe. Black people started rock because it came from blues. Little Richard? Tina Turner the Queen of rock and roll? Chuck Berry? White people might have taken off more with it but we started it..
@Lovergirlstudiio8 ай бұрын
@@MugnifyRTS they also did reggae music in the middle of their shows! Check at ‘untitled’ the bonus track on their first album. Crazy always on repeat.
@MugnifyRTS8 ай бұрын
@@Lovergirlstudiio aight I'll look at it
@brianmack92863 ай бұрын
Punk rock, and Reggae are more similar than folks realize! We both cared not about someone’s race, or culture! We both cared about the injustices that the governments were perpetuating on the communities!
@rwill36433 ай бұрын
A cornerstone band in the punk/hardcore scene. Their influence is immeasurable.
@sigmundhightower17664 ай бұрын
BAD BRAINS one of the most influential bands of the genre.
@nomoreprospecting5 ай бұрын
For sure Mash Piting started in the later 70's and into the 80's I was there - I'm 61 now. Yes it is Chaos but FUN chaos!
@jfender80237 ай бұрын
the first pioneers of punk band came from LIMA PERU Los Saicos formed in 63-64
@duncansolloway2497Ай бұрын
look up the doc A BAND CALLED DEATH to check out some proto punk from the 70s coming from detroit
@jasonwillis12173 ай бұрын
Godfathers of hardcore, breakdowns etc absolutely the best
@alexc.c.40253 ай бұрын
Pioneers. Pure raw energy!!!
@kenjo67563 ай бұрын
Every hardcore band tried emulating the Bad Brains. They are legendary.
@brianomoli47 ай бұрын
Nothing more punk rock than a guitar solo in a punk song. Punk was a backlash against the arena rock of the time. Bad Brains said “fuck your rules. We went punk to get away from rules.”
@krsnavajra3 ай бұрын
Check out there song 'I & I Survive' - I think from there first LP in 1980. The LP cover had a bolt of lightening hitting the White House. Reagan subsequently had them banned in their hometown of Washington DC.
@ButtonMashBobGaming5 ай бұрын
ughhh House of Suffering is one of my favorite songs from them. I get just overwhelmed with emotions, goosebumps, and i dont mosh anymore becuz of back injuries BUT i will beat a mofo with a mofo and then suplex them and then flip a table and cry to this song LMAOO.
@darealcochise1970Ай бұрын
Now listen to The Youth Are Getting Restless , Day Tripper/ Shes a Rainbow. Baddest Reggae jams for sure!!
@elkbomb4 ай бұрын
This was birthed by jazz fusion. It's a Return To Forever.
@gregorywilliams40958 ай бұрын
Glad you discovered some of our history
@shanespringer54953 ай бұрын
It doesn't matter how you feel,that's the point!
@heathcornbeef7 ай бұрын
How did this happen? MAGIC HAPPENS
@jamiecope5382Ай бұрын
Slam dancing started in San Francisco California
@duckslayer110002 ай бұрын
Pure punk rock. Outstanding!
@hailejo295Ай бұрын
The first Punk band is believed to be this band from Detroit. …and they’re black kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHWzdaBvlNOLZtEsi=NEpZC1siNHN94D8c
@jmarvosa6x35 ай бұрын
Their performance of HOUSE OF SUFFERING in Florida is the heaviest shit ive ever seen!
@jamescotner24593 ай бұрын
Bad brains rules. They’re from D.C. big punk scene. They started in the late 1970s
@anthonyv69626 ай бұрын
Bad Brains are the Fu
@namegoeshereorhere50207 ай бұрын
The Bad Brains were what really sold me on Punk.
@christopherdalcos7412 ай бұрын
Ska Reggae punk since I was a kid, I'm now 59 and nothing's changed.
@heatherhobbit29317 ай бұрын
Black Dots the whole album talk about DIY! 🤗 Still my favorite Bad Brains album! They're also a killer reggae band😊
@jamiecope5382Ай бұрын
I love punk rock and in my opinion the bad brains were the best man that has ever walked this Earth
@Krust_Acean8 ай бұрын
Sublime covered House of Suffering in concert.
@budska772 ай бұрын
If its not been mentioned before, you need to watch the "Finding Joseph I" to fully understand HR, the lead singer of BB. The guy is a tortured soul
@HadesMiscreant8 ай бұрын
How Low Can A Punk Get! Bad Brains Rock!! One if the first punk bands i really got!❤
@arkterror6162 ай бұрын
bad brains started hardcore punk with minor threat, one of the best of all time
@anthonyv69626 ай бұрын
No one person or one band invents anything. Almost everything in life is created by numerous people independently not knowing others are doing the same. From punk to calculus its always more than one originator. Usually similar things start to bubble up in different locations around the same time. "Punk" bands were starting in cities in the us and uk eventually they start to learn of each other and exchange ideas. Bad Brains were jazz who morphed into punk when they caught wind of it being a new scene. They really became known for Hardcore Punk that was coming out of downtown nyc the same scene the beastie boys were in. Beastie Boys used to open for them and later they produced one of the bad brains albums and took the brains on tour but HR was going crazy so they had to drop out.
@jay-remedy-plz8 ай бұрын
Slam dancing and moshing in 1982! Still great! Others have mentioned the band Minor Threat!!!!!
@Lovergirlstudiio8 ай бұрын
Bad brains coined the term moshing. It started with them. They were the greatest.
@heathcornbeef7 ай бұрын
My favourite reggae song ever is I AND I SURVIVE off BAD BRAINS album ROCK FOR LIGHT. Rock for light (bad brains )and plastic surgery disasters (dead Kennedys) changed my life 14 years old 1984 here in Aotearoa new zealand and 40 years later I've still got a mowhark red green and black to show support for GAZA
@AudieTheMastiff7 ай бұрын
Bad Brains!!!! That Right Brigade performance was amazing!!!!!! HR!!!
@bryanforis18396 ай бұрын
There from the Bronx were wild some one don’t saw live the lead singer don’t listen out there the best heavy metal punk listening to more Bronx group
@robertdoss72727 ай бұрын
I went to all their shows in ny and nj as a kid
@anthonyv69626 ай бұрын
In 1980 they saw Bob Marley at Madison Square Gardens in NYC. When they left the show they claimed rasta and some eventually developed fake accents. It threw a lot of people of when 4 guys from DC all of a sudden thought they were Jamaican. Becoming Rasta i get it but the accent was strange. HR and the band i guess did a few things not to be proud of but i think most of them eventually changed their attitudes. Still were a great band.
@GKinslayer7 ай бұрын
The Bad Brains were THE band in the 80's. Everyone loved them - well I Against I was a bit weaker than their earlier music. But all other punk bands in the USA and around the world were fans of the Bad Brains. Hardcore punk would not exist without them. FYI - the last song - that was a typical punk rock show. As to why you don't see any women is because the front of the stage was where the slam dance pit was and women did not want to go into it. So the women would stand to the side of back. But it was normal for the crowd to be diving off the stage - and the pit was all fun. You hit and get hit - no one went to punch or kick someone intentionally. It had nothing to do with manhood, we were pissed off with no power, money or say, all we had was music. All those punk shows were put on by the local punks, someone would work with the club to get the bands but all the promotion and stuff was done by the locals - it's where the term DIY came from. Punk had no corporate sponsor or popular media image, we were HATED in the 80s. I got into punk in 81 when I was 15 which got me into tons of shit and I mean adults attacking me due to me being into punk music and cops hated us. When we wanted shows or bands, we started them and the same with all the magazines - called zines - all done by local folks just for the love of the genre.
@anthonyv69626 ай бұрын
The middle video was the newest early 90s
@dd-tc6ip5 ай бұрын
bought this tape when I was in high school. Most ain ready for this. Its PUNK sir
@kp51987 ай бұрын
Back then, moshing was termed slam dancing..... in the early days of punk and hardcore punk. Love me some bad brains. /// N check out Madball live at cbgbs.
@briancole70245 ай бұрын
Back then, moshing was called, "Slam Dancing" and no one was hurting nobody. Think of it like a workout. If you started trying to lay people out, everyone would gang up on you; so no one took it personal if you got cracked. Fall down, and we all pick you up. Blacks and whites got along just fine in the punk scene. The worse part was everyone used to spit on the band with big snotty goobers. Fun times.
@ytjohnson875026 күн бұрын
Corrections: Punk has nothing to do with the Blues That would be Classic Rock. Ramones started Punk Rock with "buzz-saw" guitar playing that sped up music when Blues based bands were playing 8-minute songs. Bad Brains were at the start of the Hardcore movement, which came after the original punk bands they enjoyed, like Ramones, Dead Boys and The Damned.
@shanespringer54953 ай бұрын
Funny how your ego took you to "I woulda folded someone" hilarious
@lurkmerchant8 ай бұрын
Glad you checked out different eras of Bad Brains. I see clips of God of Love and Soulcraft here. Both are great songs.
@oneidawolf7762 ай бұрын
bad brigains. i like it.
@MugnifyRTS2 ай бұрын
😂I
@murreygellmann77087 ай бұрын
Bad Brains would do Reggae/Dub most of their sets...and do lightening speed thrash to mix it up. Tight as a drum and deadly serious...they were a reaction to stadium corporate rock nonsense and daily oppression....and inspired thousands of bands.
@jamiecope5382Ай бұрын
Oh yes black folks have been the innovators music in this country since the beginning
@NotBenCoultry8 ай бұрын
I never knew these guys were black - holy crap. Another one you may not know is Fishbone - badass ska band from the 80s/90s - Party at Ground Zero was one of their bigger songs, it's fun for sure.
@Lovergirlstudiio8 ай бұрын
Rock was started by black people. Sister Tharpe was the very first to introduce this sound as well as Little Richard and Tina Turner
@NotBenCoultry8 ай бұрын
This feels like an odd place for this comment, was this meant for the main?@@Lovergirlstudiio
@brandonchristopher1083Ай бұрын
the first song / video did you no just. audio bad and they were raw...look and see how they progressed. HR is a legend of front man. I am Mexican / American and i love that they're our African American brothers they are not just punk they are reggae too!
@brandonchristopher1083Ай бұрын
HR is a prophet in my opinion. This is my gospel music. "Let me help" he sings right out of the King James bible they are Rastafarians.
@brentabbott39547 ай бұрын
Great band.hard to believe they are from Jamaica huh?