I’m having a ball watching this one. We have tix to the Salad Days screening in Richmond tomorrow, so I took today to watch this documentary, which is a little bit older (2006).

Fascinating stories – Jack Grisham and the pipe bomb; Henry’s induction into Black Flag.  The fact that HR was pimping Think And Grow Rich on the younger generation, the “undergraduates,” as he referred to them, and it was WORKING. It gave them the PMA they needed to make it happen. Ian talking about growing up white in DC and going to public schools where you’re a 10% minority.

Awesome footage – lots of Bad Brains footage and band members talking. Show violence.  DOA. Flipper. Minor Threat. Black Flag, with and without Henry. Kira on feminism, Mugger on his life (from runaway to Black Flag roadie to SST accountant to independently wealthy CPA), discussions about the LA punk riots, NYC street kids.

A great breakdown of the evolution of hardcore and how it spread around the country, evolved and then suddenly fizzled out and died.

Of course, it missed some of the stuff I witnessed and loved, but that’s what tomorrow’s thing is for — the hyper-local focus.