This looks like a BLAST! ⎮Bad Brains LIVE Reaction

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My name is Kaiya Pelletier and I am documenting my metal journey as I discover and listen to metal music for the first time ever. I'm in my mid 20's and I've been a singer songwriter and performer for over 10 years. Currently I live in Stillwater, Oklahoma and I am in the process of recording my 4th album. I have a Bloodhound named Spooner, I love Mexican food, collecting Stephen King novels, collecting CD's and cassettes and my favorite movies are tied between Jurassic Park and Alien.
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[@imaKaiya]

What do we think of Bad Brains? 🤔 Here's to the first hardcore band being featured on the channel 🍻

[@johnfelix4611]

Love the Bad Brains!

[@donprescavage8107]

I have loved the bad brains since the 90s.such an amazing band to see live.

[@ExUSSailor]

The importance of Bad Brains can not be overstated. They were the MOST influential punk/hardcore band, and, their influence reaches to all forms of heavy music. Ask ANY metal/rock/punk/hardcore band of the last 40 years who influenced them, I guarantee you Bad Brains will be near the top of every list.

[@ExUSSailor]

On a side note, I f**king miss the Hell out of CBGB's!

[@discharger66]

Discharge is the most influential punk/hardcore band.

[@FahqTyrants]

100

[@rctd511]

I saw Bad Brains several times in '81-'82. I've never seen another band play on that level of intensity.

[@deragon59]

i was at this show it was Chritmas Eve 1982.

[@dr.daniel8816]

I was 13 with my older brother.... 1st concert ever. Changed me. Couldn't stand coliseum shows.

[@SigmundHightower]

FINALLY! Someone reacting to some live hardcore shit. You may not know but this band influenced so many bands in the punk scene. Seeing them live was a spiritual journey.

[@Rand_al_Thor372]

My heart truly aches for all you youngsters who never had the chance to 3xperience these guys live, because HOLY FUCKING SHIT THEY WERE AMAZING!!!First three albums are pure gold beginning to end.

[@elkbomb]

Bad Brains is my favorite band of all time.

[@heathcornbeef]

I got to see them here in Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand with my favourite New Zealand band opening for them STICKY FILTH who have also opened for suicidal tendencies and MOTORHEAD twice

[@F28aj]

@@heathcornbeefbad Brains or soul brains?

[@heathcornbeef]

@@F28aj BAD BRAINS

[@heathcornbeef]

@@F28aj when i was 14 years old 1984 i heard PMA on student radio here in Aotearoa new zealand and was stunned WTF is this? It was a life changing moment i probably forgot to breathe while the song was playing. Forty years later I've still got a mowhark and a bad attitude towards racists.... corporate whores(mike muir).And bullies

[@AntisocialSka1]

Bad Brains, Ramones, Sublime, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Morphine

[@jorgebarajas2799]

Hardcore punk started my journey from rap/80's hair metal to death metal to black metal. Take a look at Minor Threat and Circle Jerks and for more modern hardcore-esqe band look at Pisse. Punk gets better when you start learning how the different the "scenes" sound, English vs DC vs NY vs LA vs Midwest.

[@simonrobinson10]

Even English had genres - from the 'London' scene led my Malcolm Maclaren (Sex Pistols, Siouxie, Damned), The Clash, to the Northern scene (Buzzcocks, Joy Division etc) I'm from Stoke, we had Discharge (and still do!) - the scene around here is still alive and well 🤘🤘

[@MrBrinx666]

One of my absolute favorit bands. Saw them in Oslo 93. Bad Brains, and Turbonegro was opening!!!

[@hinterwelter]

I saw them on the same tour. It, however, wasn't HR or Earl in the band for that tour.

[@choppingpenguin]

Growing up in this era was magical, the hardcore shows were truly the stuff of legend! The Bad Brains are still one of my favorite bands from this era, if you check out their discography, you'll notice a dramatically modernizing shift in sonic quality On I Against I as compared to the first 2 records. They took their feral, blitzkrieg sonic assault and added a touch of finesse, bringing the sound a few steps closer to metal without ever fully landing on that shore. EVERYONE knew the Bad Brains were the kings of the pit!

[@mutenoise33rpm22]

We want more Hardcore Punk videos!!! Dead Kennedys, Exploited, Suicidal Tendencies, Discharge, Agnostic Front and so many great bands

[@PepeA79th]

Could you imagine being 65 and thing "Ahhh, the good ole days."? Oh, yeah, I am.

[@imaginationofourselves7518]

Yes More Hardcore punk: Youth of Today, Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Gorilla Biscuits, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Gang Green, ..

[@xollop306]

i second this

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

West Coast is sorely underrepresented in your list. Circle Jerks, Descendents, RKL, TSOL, early Suicidal.

[@couchslouch]

New sub here. I'm down for punk,hardcore,thrash, crossover, all that stuff. Good times.

[@jasonwood8023]

Finally someone reacted to their raw live performances!!!

[@LastInLine13]

Bad Brains introduced me to punk, reggae and PMA. My favorite band of all time in any genre and grossly underrated.. I've seen them 3 times but never got to see them in the 80s. That's footage of a legendary band captured at a legendary venue.. what us old timers refer to as 'Epic Shit' kids

[@RmsTitanicagaming1912]

Iirc Fear was the first band to record hardcore, you can find fear’s 1977 live video of I love livin in the city, in 1978 it was a demo track and in 1980 it was officially released on their Debut album called the album.

[@GKinslayer]

Man o man - this here is as punk as you can get. No bull shit - this was a local show in a tiny, I mean tiny club, CBGB's was one of the smallest clubs I have played. What you see was typical at shows - people hopping on stage and diving off. I had the good fortune of catching the Bad Brains live @ The Brewery in Raliegh NC. It was the best show I had ever been to, and I went to tons of shows from 1983 - 1999. Also, a note - MOSH is an acronym out of NYC starting from shows, skinheads had their own pits at shows, and they ONLY allowed skins in their pit. So the skins did a few kinds of slam dancing so folks started to call it - March of the Skin Heads - aka MOSH.

[@kingbrutusxxvi]

I was working on my MSEE around 1992 (maybe 1991) and a bunch of us went to the pizza shop on campus and saw what we thought was a reggae band setting up for a show. We thought reggae because: black dudes with dreads, lots of Jamaican colors, lots of weed and there were frequently reggae shows in the complex. The show was free so we stayed. I had been a metalhead since the late '70s but Bad Brains blew my mind. This isn't the best quality recording but they were AWESOME! Definitely check out their discography. Their studio stuff is raw but great.

[@lurkmerchant]

But they also was a reggae band 😂

[@christophermcconnell3867]

Cro-mags

[@Medicalstench]

That's a real moshpit right there slamdancing skanking the whole shabang

[@aaronrandolph261]

which she hilariously refers to flailing. you know when you come from a different generation for sure. nothing like the danger of an 80's mosh pit!

[@punklover99]

Brains shows are a mix of music and acrobatics, hr was 10 lbs of dynamite in a 5 lb bag. Once even duck taping himself to a school desk singing and doing flips during the performance

[@raineramelung7380]

Hi.. We(bunch of nothern German Punks) got a Camping Trip to Denmark 83...or 84..?we got hundred of beer cans with,, and only one tape,, it was,, Bad Brains,,.. So it burned into my brain😁.. Try some stuff from here. :"Slime-mea culpa" (about sexual abuse to children by members of catholic church).. Ref :go to hell.! Enjoy

[@lurkmerchant]

I'm not a big hardcore punk fan, but something with different element, like Bad Brains is an exception. Bad Brains are so diverse and satisfies my eclectic taste.

[@lastedain450]

Well ain't you wonderful

[@user-nz8pm7ed4u]

І like Nomeansno.

[@stripes3325]

I was at this CB`s show. Black leather jacket/white shirt lower left in this video. It took quite a bit of effort to not get hit by a stage diver.

[@jason_108]

Absolute legends! In 1996 I ended up in the basement of a house in Woodstock, NY jamming with the pre-teen kids of Bad Brains drummer. Super fun!

[@lurkmerchant]

That's awesome! He's one of my all time favourite drummers.

[@gabriela_s]

So jealous

[@whathappenedtothedon]

I don't know if Bad Brains will ever know exactly how much their music meant to the kids at their shows. Madonna , Beastie Boys, Minor Threat and so many other influential artists emerged from this community!!! Legendary band and insanely influential. Bless up to all y'all still rockin this madness!

[@Samuel-zb3ks]

I listen to hardcore punk, i'm a fan of it and i wanna see more of it on the channel.

[@jddavila7382]

We old dudes of punk hope you understand the influence and welcome to the club of Bad Brains fans.

[@johnfelix4611]

5:00 yes it was a blessing to have grown up in the '80s.

[@michaelbuhl4250]

If you continue your hardcore punk journey, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Minor Threat are essential. I was always more of a post-punk guy: The Birthday Party, Gang of Four, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Wire, Scratch Acid, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Mission of Burma, The Jesus Lizard, Wipers, Tad, The Laughing Hyenas, Minutemen, Chrome, The Lubricated Goat, Brainiac, Public Image Ltd., Pere Ubu, Didjits, and The Three Johns to name a few.

[@TroubledTurnip]

Hardcore punk is the mother genre for so much modern heavy music. Hell even early Black Metal was this, but faster. All the 'core' subgenres are this at heart. You can listen to the chord progressions in Nirvana and it's this. I'm so happy people are preserving these early live videos, because this is how it's supposed to sound. Studio recordings don't convey what hardcore was about. This live video gives you a glimpse of what this scene was and why it was so influential.

[@g-man4744]

Early black metal is 100% influenced by hardcore punk, and punk was just as fast if not faster (check out Asocial, Deep Wound, Youth Korps, early DRI, Negative FX from the early 80s, there's blast beats in there).

[@iachtulhu1420]

Not surprising at all when you know that hardcore punk brought blast beats, growls, screams and dark, non-conformist, confrontational lyricism to metal. It did influence many, many most influential metal bands from early '79 onwards, from the very beginning of the genre. No punk = no thrash, crossover/grindcore/crust or any other extreme metal genres like death metal and black metal... It's literally built in very foundations of such styles. Sometimes the influence is obvious and stays for many years or decades even, sometimes it's more subtle, but you can always go back to the original bands in first waves of 80s metal and always find punk lingering somewhere around. I would say for the most part, hardcore punk/crustcore was more intense and extreme than most metal until the very end of 80s. But then metal took those influences and ran with them.

[@lurkmerchant]

@@iachtulhu1420 I wasn't into punk at all when I was young but it's slowly growing on me because most music I listen to have "punk" element. It's always nice when someone is knowledgeable about music history. Everything makes sense.

[@iachtulhu1420]

​@@lurkmerchant It is an acquired taste, surely. Most of this stuff you'll rarely hear or see mentioned in reaction channels or in any kind of media really. It's very much alive and well in underground. I find metal having much more visibility and commercial exposure than anything punk related, but it's incredibly at least historically important for development of extreme metal. Hardcore punk, powerviolence, fastcore, crust punk, crustcore, mincecore/grindcore are all alive and well, but are stuck in age before internet, more or less purposefully so due to DIY culture and less promotion to big labels. Tnx, just trying to put my 2 cents.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

Anything fast and extreme about Metal basically comes from Discharge and Motorhead, then they kept adding stuff like Amebix and Antisect.

[@fredarsenault8987]

re: the fashion thing. The North East punks were anti fashion as opposed to the leather and spikes of the UK and LA. That and NYC used to be a dirt poor city, the area this club was in looked like it had been bombed in a war.

[@johnfelix4611]

I liked this reaction so much that I posted it on my FB friend's page.

[@duncansolloway2497]

a high energy contender to BAD BRAINSs HR would be CHI PIG from SNFU-early live footage is intense

[@aaronrandolph261]

agreed SNFU are highly underrated and unfortunately not well known outside of canada or so i thought

[@arnepietruszewski9255]

There is some nice Hardcore Punkrock out there. Madball, Walls of Jericho, Agnostic Front, Sick of it all, Dropkick Murphys (earlier work), Terror, Hatebreed.

[@chrismartino3519]

Bad Brains! great choice. Don't forget about the Hardcore scene from England around this time too. Some of the best Hardcore out there. The Subhumans, Conflict, Chaos UK, and of course the kings of gutter punk, Rudimentary Peni. I think you'd like it.

[@marksmith1428]

As GREAT a live band as I have ever seen!@

[@garse70]

Best live band you’ve never seen

[@lurkmerchant]

So true. I always wished I could see them live in their hayday.

[@tomobrien5345]

Go look up “rock for light”’their first proper album release. Then if you watch this again you can enjoy/ make out the songs more

[@erikjohnson3255]

You're right, the stage is (was) tiny and the area in front of the stage was not that big, either. CBGB was a very long bar with seats mostly running down the left side facing the stage. Not many places like that around anymore.

[@duncansolloway2497]

1-2-SNFU !! CHI PIG from SNFU was an equal to HR on stage and not too many can say that

[@richardcardoza1895]

One of the best to ever do it

[@christopherrogers1598]

The come from GoGo music from DC. just supercharged. saw them at the nugget in long beach. best punk show ever.

[@giannizuniga3428]

finally someone reacted to this 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@Yee33224]

Hey if you want to do some hard core punk do these bands Discharge Broken bone Exploited GBH cor mag DRI warzone ENT DOOM .

[@johnfelix4611]

That was the first reggae band I ever got into. I always loved their hardcore punk stuff too.

[@PepeA79th]

I don't think any of today's pink, blue and green haired boys would have fared very well at a concert like this. F*ck Art, Let Dance

[@tomdewispelaere4727]

Thanks sooo much for your open minded dive into the past. Absolute chaos, liberty and respect. Punk is dead! Ps, they do reggae.

[@raineramelung7380]

Hi try some crazy, interessting. Video,, the German Punk Band from 1981..and still on stage now :"die toten Hosen-mehr davon, life, Hals und Beinbruch" (long title🤔but See, what the singer did at this gig..?! 😮.. It, s about adiction..) *

[@MuchoMas640]

Yes plz hear the vinyl audio.. original version. Not digital.. Love your channel!❤

[@daveramone1639]

Hardcore!!!

[@imaginationofourselves7518]

Legendary live harcore punk concert, but do the live video , not only audio 😊

[@SamThredder]

what are you talking about? she quite obviously watched the video

[@thomasabramson100]

Saw these guys at CBGB in 1982 you really REALLY need to review (BLACK FLAG) both Kieth Morris and Henry Rollins as lead vocals

[@jamesbaxter9069]

The best frontman all time

[@christopherrogers1598]

They play amazing reggae too. at this show, even...

[@FahqTyrants]

HR the singer is one of the best-this show was wild & video has bad audio. But HR is a great singer

[@user-kr6py5by4h]

Punks didnt mosh we slam danced.

[@bayareathrasher666]

Legends

[@MuchoMas640]

Gotta read the lyrics to both songs.. deep.

[@dd-tc6ip]

kids these days Aint Ready for Bad Brains.

[@coleyounger5689]

TERROR... HARD LESSON (official music video) just found your channel what up from Raleigh NC 19 Wednesday 26 🎉🎉

[@matttorrence2900]

Maybe Kaiya needs to see the Social Distortion film "Another State of Mind."

[@r0ckstar666]

Greatest band ever

[@RitesofAshes]

hi there lady , Cro mags reaction will be sweet ... hardcore , punk and also Oi 🙂

[@sammencia7945]

I saw them in 87. Height of their powers. Not for the meek. You mosh or stand waaaaay in the back.

[@heathcornbeef]

Kia Ora hello from Aotearoa New Zealand how are you doing? Hay when i was 14 years old 1984 i heard these guys on student radio here in Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand and it was a life changing moment for me the song was called pay to cum and now almost 54 years old and I've still got a Mohawk red at the moment

[@fuckwad2024]

I wish I could have grown up in the 80’s for so many reasons, none of them are as obvious as you may think. I feel like if I had never had access to the internet, my life would be a hell of a lot better

[@johnbello6946]

More hardcore please. Agnostic Front and Sick of it All and Gorilla Biscuits and 7 Seconds

[@lucymolockian1849]

Part of the fun was the actual danger of it all.

[@bigdaddypiggy]

I was born in DC in 1971 & believe me….you did not wanna grow up in the 80’s

[@MikieH-hr3vi]

Awesome post kitty cat !! ;)

[@tiac916iac9]

Street Justice by CROMAGS

[@user-sm9dg1jj8d]

Full on frontal assault And I still got my outer motion and my PMA Thanks HR for being you !

[@hinterwelter]

Try the Jesus Lizard live at CBGB from the early 90s. Smokin'!

[@user-fr5ss6gk7v]

A greats

[@waynefunko2164]

Reaccioná a la version grabada

[@g-man4744]

Definitely do more punk! No hardcore punk, no extreme metal simple as that. I was never a big fan of Bad Brains though, somehow the vocals don't do it for me, and I can't take the reggae at all...

[@iachtulhu1420]

I would say it grows on ya. I wasn't either earlier, now I can take them and enjoy them even. I just appreciate the level of immense cultural and musical importance these guy had on whole generations of punks, skinheads and metalheads. I also like their extreme intensity and directness and crazy stage presence.

[@lurkmerchant]

You should check out Quickness, Rise, God of Love albums. Not overly extreme but really unique and interesting. Rise album is the most commercial sounding album, but you can tell they influenced many nu-metal, alternative and prog-metal bands. HR's vocal around 90s probably is easier on your ears with more rounded-ness and maturity in his voice.

[@Shovelglove545]

I love the vocals some of my favourite in the genre

[@rawpower12xu]

The vocals are ferocious. Love it. The reggae i do not like either, but they were influential beyond measure. Frenetic performances

[@DirkDigglerTheFirst]

Stay Metal in a Pink of Hell😂😂😂

[@matttorrence2900]

Is Kaiya metal?

[@andrewkoszarka4802]

you didn't even get to the reggae tunes

[@haxio17]

Omg No lol

[@aspect57]

dance moves? fashion? oh my god there's like so many things... shirts and stuff. wait, that one guys has pants on. my god?! does he know we're watching? c'mon dude, at least try.

[@rickbrust7928]

Whats your OF?

[@hinterwelter]

More hardcore.