Another classic from the end of the SSD run, "Get it Away" at the Olympic Auditorium in LA. Minutemen and Red Hot Chili Peppers on under card.
It took a few years but I see the smokers outside in the cold and it doesn't bother me in the least. We all have rights but I have the right to breathe clean air. Hence my inspiration to write "Get it Away" in 1982. Fuck any smoker who feels their rights have been violated now. -Al Barile/SSD
Thursday, April 14, 2011
SSD - Get It Away live at the Olympic Auditorium
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This show was the start of the "dark days" of LA hardcore. This was Suicidal's first really "big" show and every moron came out for it. There was a fight just about every two minutes and I'm talking huge mob-like "vato" gangland beatdowns. Maybe about 15% of the crowd was there to see SSD. And I was ONLY there to see Society's System Decontrol. I went with Dave and Matt(who both would later form INFEST)and we just sat up off to the side and watched the circus below. The set comprised of 90% of "Break it Up" and "How we Rock". I remember Matt shaking his head the whole time. There was no need to ask what was wrong as we both saw SSD a few years prior at the Santa Monica Civic and it was a life changing show. Pure fucking devatation. And now we sit watching our "hero's" play to a roman orgy of violence. This was a very,very sad day start of many,many years of gang violence at punk shows.
ReplyDeleteI was there as well and I spoke with Matt FYI. I don't remember you there, westcoast villian!
ReplyDeleteSeriously? I watched them from the floor. The great SSD saga reached its logical end not unlike many bands. I guess the silver lining is that they knew when to move on and not flog a dead horse.
But it is still a fantastic post, Double Cross.
"This was Suicidal's first really "big" show and every moron came out for it. There was a fight just about every two minutes and I'm talking huge mob-like "vato" gangland beatdowns."
ReplyDeleteThat describes exactly what seeing Suicidal at the Olympic in 2005 was like. It's comforting to know that some things never change!
I'm sure it was nothing like seeing Suicidal in 2005!
ReplyDeleteI was at this show.....drove a carload of 4 from my mom's house to see SSD in LA.....what we got was SSD????
ReplyDeleteThis video is "THE" highlight from that night!
One of two "old school" songs they did I believe.
When SSD returned from this one week/two show West Coast, Springa was going on and on about the creepy, intimidating fucked up dudes on the stage at this particular show.
ReplyDeleteyes, this is "get it away" metal version, was it the end of '83?, ssd's "how we rock" period, the very beginning of the crossover shit.
ReplyDelete"How we Rock" was great. Way ahead of it's time.
ReplyDeleteAll the early Olympic shows were like that! Saw DK, GBH, Cockney Rejects... many others on different occasions. It always sucked. This was during the reign of Gary Tovar and 'Goldenvoice'. Same violent crap at Fenders and even at La Casa De La Raza in SB.
ReplyDeleteI won't point the finger at the Sui's alone. Much of the violence was done by competing gangs of skins. It was always a sad distraction from the music and the better aspects of the scene.
That being said, I once saw a Sui gang beat up some suburban kids at a Fender's Dag Nasty show. Just a pathetic statement about how completely out of touch some of the audience could be at these 80s shows.
I listened to How We Rock a couple weeks ago, for the first time in many many years. Cracks me up that we accused it of being "heavy metal" back when it came out. I mean it obviously sounds totally different than Get It Away, but it's still pretty hardcore.
ReplyDeleteBreak It Up is a different story, there's just no denying it's METAL UP YOUR ASS. I still like it, though.
"how we rock" is an album full of hardcore punk songs played in a more slow metal style. i still got some live tapes of ssd playin' the "how we rock" songs faster shorter and punkier.
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