![]() I guess they just had their own thing going on. They were all brothers and they eventually spun out into the band Law and Order I know that. I always wondered why they weren’t more part of the Dischord scene. and putting out their own records at that time would interest people. Then it confuses me even more that they aren’t talked about more in the history of American hardcore. You’re saying they existed before or even at the same time as the Teen Idles? They were some of the first punk records I bought with my own money when I was twelve-years-old. I found both their 7”s in the import bin of the record store in my local mall in 1983. I can’t believe you brought up the Bollocks. I didn’t know something like this was going on so close to me. Up until then, I read about stuff like this going on in California in skateboarding magazines. It was something new and crazy and we wanted in. We thought we knew what punk rock was and all of a sudden, we were like ‘What the fuck is going on?’Īfter the show, we became friends with them and starting going down to D.C. This is just when the Teen Idles came back from California, so they had all the Huntington Beach approved attire on, the bandanas wrapped around the boots and stuff like that. I don’t remember how, but they got the Teen Idles to open up for them. They played this place called Odd Fellows in Baltimore. ![]() scene?Ĭhris Stover: It was via a band called the Bollocks from Maryland. Noisey: What was your portal into punk rock and the local Washington D.C. ![]() I’ve always wanted to know more about all of it, so I tracked down Void bass player Chris Stover down in his adopted home of Northern California and he was more than gracious to answer all my nerd boy questions in a polite manner. They also left behind an unreleased LP entitled Potion for Bad Dreams that people have bootlegged the shit out of for years. In many ways, they are the true essence of hardcore: four fucked-up kids expressing themselves in the most direct way possible, talent or proficiency be both damned and fucked dry.Īfter breaking up in 1983, not only did Void leave a clutch of unrivaled tracks for us to marvel at, they left legendary stories behind of broken legs, Van Halen covers and acid trips. The fifteen tunes they released on the Dischord label truly showed they were working from their own cathartic plain. Forming in 1979, Void were an oddball beacon that stuck their middle fingers high in the face of conformity when the hardcore scene became quickly regimented in its initial run. ![]()
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