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Friends Stand United (FSU) began as an anti-fascist, [1] [2] anti-racist, and anti-drug hardcore crew.It was founded in the late 1980s by Elgin James in Boston, Massachusetts, evolving out of the hardcore punk scene and in particular the straight edge subculture.
The ideology came to Boston after the members of the Boston Crew saw Black Flag at Irving Plaza in New York City. There, they met Henry Rollins who told them about straight edge. On their drive back to Boston, the members of the crew decided they "were going to make a conscious decision to take on this whole straight edge thing". [ 63 ]
He was well known in Boston at the time as the founder of the militant Straight Edge gang FSU. After 454 Big Block broke up, he went on to front the bands The World Is My Fuse (with Baltulonis and Garcia-Rivera) and Jaded Salingers, play guitar with Righteous Jams, and release a folk-punk solo album. [ 2 ]
In Boston, James began singing for hardcore punk band Wrecking Crew and befriended a multi-racial group of kids from Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts.They formed FSU, which originally stood for 'Fuck Shit Up' however came to be known as 'Friends Stand United' or 'Forever Stand United', for the purpose of purging violent white power skinheads from the Boston hardcore scene. [5]
Death Before Dishonor (DBD or DB4D for short) is an American hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. They are influenced by artists such as Blood for Blood, Madball, Agnostic Front, SSD, Suicidal Tendencies, Pennywise, Death Threat. Their initial releases were on Spook City Records; the group signed with Bridge Nine Records in 2005.
The name "Combat Zone" was popularized through a series of exposé articles on the area Jean Cole wrote for the Boston Daily Record in the 1960s. [1] The moniker described an area that resembled a war zone both because of its well-known crime and violence, and because many soldiers and sailors on shore leave from the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard frequented the many strip clubs and brothels ...
Fans in Montreal booed the U.S. national anthem prior to the Americans’ first game of the 4 Nations Face-Off against Finland on Thursday night, and Stanley Cup-winning forward Matthew Tkachuk ...
Max Cooperman is in charge of another upcoming fight at the underground event "The Beatdown", and four fighters are training in a vacant lot under very-experienced martial artist Case Walker: Zack Gomes, who recently quit boxing after sustaining a partially detached retina from a match; skilled MMA fighter Tim Newhouse, whose family is in debt following the death of his father; Mike Stokes, a ...