filmbuzz – american hardcore

September 23, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Paul Rachman, who I worked with back in the early 90′s on a couple of music videos, has a documentary out entitled American Hardcore: The History of Punk Rock from 1980 – 1986, which was pretty much the time I lived in the Village. I’m interested to see it, and any footage of those days. Maybe there will be a shot of Charlie. The stories he could tell. It was a fun, weird and heavy time. Sadly, a great many people from that time are no longer with us…. for many different reasons. There was so much rage, and love, and hate and friendship, and intelligence, and confusion and focus, it had to deviate for some, explode for others, and just fade away for even more. Anyway, here’s the trailer.

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  • joly

    No, no pic of Big Charlie.

    Not a lot of NYHC at all, come to that.

    Jack Flanagan’s in there tho.

    Plenty of Brains, and Jerry Williams.

  • David

    Am excited to see it. Perhaps not surprised that Charlie isn’t in it. It’s odd. I’ve learned that some people seem to just fold up into the world of memory, that is, little is left of them. I’ve known half a dozen people who’ve taken their life (or known their loved one/s) and that seems to be the case. They sort of disappear, as do all traces of them. Absorbed.

    Anyway, the live footage must be amazing in AH. And, I can’t ever remember a camera being at NYHC… that I rmemember. It wasn’t that type of crowd. That’s for sure. Although, I do remember Jimmy Gestapo’s girlfriend at the time Annabelle, she had a camera at one point and was taking pictures. I had taken some pics of Charilie and some others during that time. And, I left the film undeveloped for too many years.

    Any soundtrack going to accompany the movie, I wonder.

    Not too many people remember The Mob. Hehe.

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