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  • Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) Coming To DVD/Blu-ray

    Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
    coming to DVD on September 18th, streaming now on Vimeo

    The critically acclaimed documentary chronicling the rise of punk rock in Washington, DC

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    Scott Crawford and Jim Saah's Salad Days: A Decade of Punk In Washington, DC (1980-90) has been selling out screenings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Chicago, and more. The documentary film that examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows-without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny.

    Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry's subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC's original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction.

    Director/writer Scott Crawford is a music journalist, musician, and graphic designer. As a teenager in the DC suburbs, he started a fanzine called Metrozine that documented much of what was happening in the DC hardcore punk scene in the 1980s.

    "The DC punk music scene that I grew up with in the 1980s has always been a big part of who I am," says Scott. "I interviewed a lot of these bands for the first time over 30 years ago while doing a fanzine. Approaching them all again decades later offered a type of perspective and reflection that I wanted to capture in a film."

    Crawford was also quoted in both Dance of Days and Banned in DC - the two most definitive books on the early DC punk scene. In 2001, he launched Harp Magazine and served as its Editor-in-Chief for over seven years. Crawford also launched the online music portal Blurt in 2009.

    Serving as Director of Photography, Saah is a native of Washington, DC who has worked professionally in photography and video for over 25 years. He has shot for a variety of publications and websites ranging from the Washington Post to Rolling Stone. He's also an experienced videographer whose credits range from union organizing films to music documentaries. Recent films he has worked on include movies about the bands Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, and Eddie Vedder.

    On a side note, OBEY and Shepard Fairey were heavily influenced by the DC hardcore scene. Shepard has used numerous DC hardcore legends such as Ian Mackaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi, Henry Rollins of State of Alert and Black Flag, and Bad Brains in his artwork. When hearing that Crawford and Saah were planning a West Coast release of their film, OBEY wanted to get involved. They created this T-shirt which is on sale now (along with other cool Salad Days merchandise) HERE.

    Quick Facts:
    * Salad Days reached its Kickstarter goal in 6 days.
    * Features never-before-seen photographs and performance footage of dozens of DC punk bands.
    * Interviews with Ian MacKaye, Henry Rollins, John Stabb, Thurston Moore, Dave Grohl, and others
    * Original score by guitarist Michael Hampton (SOA, Faith, Embrace, One Last Wish

    Rock! Shock! Pop!

  • #2
    Brian Baker interviews mean this is a must see for me. That guy rules.

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    • #3
      I hope Marginal Man gets plenty of time, they were my favorite band from that scene and tend to be kind of neglected these days.
      I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

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      • #4
        This doc is rad. I laughed. I cried. It was much better than Cats.

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        • #5
          I'd watch this fo' sho!

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          • #6
            We have two threads for this - old one - anyway, I watched the BD last night and really enjoyed it. Ian Mackaye (understandably) sort of dominates the film, don't get me wrong, there's tons of other interviews but they come back to him throughout the film. Tolch, you might be somewhat disappointed with the Brian Baker stuff*, he doesn't get a huge amount of time but does have a presence. I thought the film managed to cover a vast amount of bands and music in its 103 minute runtime - it's the kind of film that will send you digging through your music collection for sure, I know I will be. Pretty cool to see Steve Niles in it, and major mystery writer (and DC resident) George Pelecanos too. The extras include a bunch of live footage of several bands and more interviews - I will get to those this weekend. All in all I highly recommend this, fucking great!

            * - Edit - actually, you can probably disregard this, I forgot he's also in the bonus interviews so no doubt gets plenty of time.
            Andrew Monroe
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            Last edited by Andrew Monroe; 09-17-2015, 07:22 AM.
            I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Andrew Monroe View Post
              We have two threads for this - old one - anyway, I watched the BD last night and really enjoyed it. Ian Mackaye (understandably) sort of dominates the film, don't get me wrong, there's tons of other interviews but they come back to him throughout the film. Tolch, you might be somewhat disappointed with the Brian Baker stuff*, he doesn't get a huge amount of time but does have a presence. I thought the film managed to cover a vast amount of bands and music in its 103 minute runtime - it's the kind of film that will send you digging through your music collection for sure, I know I will be. Pretty cool to see Steve Niles in it, and major mystery writer (and DC resident) George Pelecanos too. The extras include a bunch of live footage of several bands and more interviews - I will get to those this weekend. All in all I highly recommend this, fucking great!

              * - Edit - actually, you can probably disregard this, I forgot he's also in the bonus interviews so no doubt gets plenty of time.
              BD it is, thanks Andrew!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Andrew Monroe View Post
                We have two threads for this - old one - anyway, I watched the BD last night and really enjoyed it. Ian Mackaye (understandably) sort of dominates the film, don't get me wrong, there's tons of other interviews but they come back to him throughout the film. Tolch, you might be somewhat disappointed with the Brian Baker stuff*, he doesn't get a huge amount of time but does have a presence. I thought the film managed to cover a vast amount of bands and music in its 103 minute runtime - it's the kind of film that will send you digging through your music collection for sure, I know I will be. Pretty cool to see Steve Niles in it, and major mystery writer (and DC resident) George Pelecanos too. The extras include a bunch of live footage of several bands and more interviews - I will get to those this weekend. All in all I highly recommend this, fucking great!

                * - Edit - actually, you can probably disregard this, I forgot he's also in the bonus interviews so no doubt gets plenty of time.
                Pretty short nonetheless, though. :) I've read elsewhere as well that it focuses on Mackaye like it's some kind of bad thing...at the end of the day, any look at DC is going to have to have a ton of him in there. I was a little surprised by the lack of Bad Brains in there, it's almost like they were disregarded for moving to New York. Personally, I felt that the documentary was a little long, but that might have to do with the fact that I can't stand most of the bands that came out of DC in the latter part of the 80's, including Fugazi, and that I watched Positive Force (documentary) not that long ago and it really dragged out the political aspect of the DC scene after Minor Threat split. And I realize that American Hardcore is far from definitive, but it's hard to avoid comparisons to it when you're doing a doc on one aspect of hardcore and essentially using the same aesthetic.

                Anyway, it was entertaining. :)

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