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drawbacks. It hurt the band’s income
An honest and insightful memoir of the hardcore scene in NYC, by the leader of its foremost band, Agnostic Front. I attended many of their shows during the 1980s and can testify to how intense it was to be there. Roger's vastly entertaining book captures a life lived on the mean streets of NYC, and what it meant to be in hardcore band during a turbulent subculture.
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.”
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“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.”
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“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
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