The Truth is never subject to time: John Joseph interview and Cro-Mags jam live in Berlin

If you haven't read John Joseph's book "The Evolution of A Cro-Magnon", then you're missing some amazingly entertaining, interesting and inspiring piece of read. An autobiography packed with crazy stories, based in the old New York City, that covers the obscure genesis of its HC/punk scene, reflections on spiritual journey, drug addicts and dealers adventures, the history of the Cro-Mags and what not. I do love the book and it's amazing to see how people who wrote pretty groundbreaking lyrics for their times seem to have a lot of creativity and still carry a good message today.

Stuff I heard in the interview plus the show they delivered last week was pretty much what I wanted to get from Hardcore to charge my batteries for a while. Seriously, there are not too many current bands that could pull it off like they did. The line up was: John Joseph - vocals, Mackie Jayson - drums, AJ Novello - guitar and Craig Setari - bass.

I've just read they might be back in Europe sooner than we think, so don't think twice if you have a chance to see them. It's worthy of any hour of your long travel.





Jezeli nie czytaliscie jeszcze ksiazki Johna Josepha pt. "The Evolution of A Cro-Magnon", to straciliscie kawal dobrej zabawy, interesujacej historii i inspiracji. Autobiografia ze starym Nowym Jorkiem w tle, zawiera mase historii dotyczacych mrocznych poczatkow sceny HC/punk tego miasta, przygod narkomanow i dealerow, refleksji nad duchowym rozwojem, historie Cro-Mags i wiele wiecej. Ksiazka rzadzi i fajnie widac, ze ktos kto napisal jedne z najbardziej przelomowych tekstow dla swoich czasow ma dzisiaj ciagle tak duzo dobrego do przekazania.

To, co uslyszalem w tym wywiadzie i koncert, ktory zobaczylem w Berlinie ponad tydzien temu, to mniej wiecej to, czego potrzebuje od Hardcore'a, aby miec naladowane baterie na jakis czas. Naprawde, trudno mi znalezc wiele obecnie grajacych kapel, ktore dalyby rade tak jak zrobili to oni. Sklad tego wieczora: John Joseph - spiew, Mackie Jayson - gary, AJ Novello - gitka i Craig Setari - bass.

Dochodza sluchy o tym, ze maja sie pojawic w Europie juz wkrotce, wiec jezeli bedziecie mieli okazje ich zobaczyc, nie zastanawiajcie sie nad tym zbyt dlugo. To warte kazdej godziny spedzonej w dlugiej podrozy.

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