Hard-Core: Life of My Own
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01IMJQNV0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 473 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Back Cover "Harley Flanagan's incredible story is not just the history of New York hardcore, of which he is a founding father, but a history of New York itself. If you care anything about music history, punk rock, hardcore or just a ripping good story, this book is the punch in the face you want and need."- Anthony Bourdain . Chances are if it happened in New York and it was important and interesting, Harley Flanagan was somewhere in the room. It's all here, an amazing series of unlikely coincidences, catastrophes, accomplishments and associations
Most famously, Harley became a member of the famous hardcore band The Cro-Mags, and disputes accusations of stabbing two band members.. As a homeless child prodigy, Harley Flanagan played drums for bands at Max’s Kansas City and CBGBs, and was taught to play bass by the famed black band Bad Brains, and drank with the notorious Lemmy of Motörhead
I highly recommended Hard-Core Life of My Own Brilliantly unapologetic Nefertiti Jones I highly recommended Hard-Core Life of My OwnBrilliantly unapologetic, Harley is like a trapped Pit bull biting his way out of the streets of New York, Denmark and San Francisco.I first met Harley sometime in the late 70s in the schoolyard of PS 19. He was different even back then. Like a Jack in the box with an automatic . "One Of The Best Rock Bio's In A Long Time" according to Charles S. Marwick. Good god, what a life this man has led. From roaming around Europe with his hippie mother as a kid, to 12 year old punker with the Stimulators, to starting the lower east side's skin movement, Harley has lived 10 lives compared to you and I.There's so much here that its almost impossible to list it all: Meeting famous peop. An Authentic Autobiography of New York Hardcore Pioneer, Creator, and Survivor of the Movement Uncle Tony If you love reading honest material coming from a first hand account of what certain eras were like, read this book. Harley is a pioneer, a man who was behind the scenes before the scene, creating, doing, exploring, but with much difficulty experiencing hard times in the lower east side of Manhattan. You get violence, drug