repost via @instarepost20 from @ssdecontrolofficial Al on seeing the Bad Brains for the first time in New York City: “I was a typical suburban kid—I lived thirty minutes outside of Boston, and grew up on Van Halen and AC/DC. When I saw Black Flag, I thought “This is like AC/DC, but this is better.’ And then I got together with a bunch of people and we all hopped in my van and went down to New York to see the Bad Brains. They were playing in a loft, and people just stood there and did nothing. New York and Boston were full of punkers hanging onto that 1979 Sex Pistols thing, people with spiky hair and leather jackets, drunk out of their minds and doing punk rock as a cool fashion thing. And we weren’t into playing that role. The Bad Brains played and it was like the room was exploding. They were the band that defied any live experience I’d ever had. It was charged.” - 1995 interview with Pat Blashill Video of the Bad Brains at CBGBs with SSD, December 1982. iiii]; )'