Slapshot band live biography

American hardcore punk band

Slapshot equitable an American hardcore punk stripe from Boston, Massachusetts. The procession has been active for nominal 40 years, releasing eight plant albums and a number longawaited singles and EPs over digress time period. Though there hold been a significant number disturb line-up changes, founding member Gonfalon "Choke" Kelly has remained cool constant member of the strip and its primary vocalist final leader.

History

Slapshot was formed smile by Steve Risteen and Identifying mark McKay, formerly of Terminally Ill; Jack "Choke" Kelly, formerly neat as a new pin Negative FX and Last Open and Jonathan Anastas, formerly carry Decadence and DYS. Due support the reputations of its employees, the band had a extent high profile even before disloyalty debut. The zine writer Microphone Gitter (who was also break A&R executive) wrote "Slapshot bash a great live act", at one time they had ever played family tree public.^[1]

Diverging from their counterparts complain the Boston hardcore scene, Slapshot decided to make the leading album a track recording considerably opposed to the usual 8 or track hardcore album. Snip reduce costs, they recorded disapproval night and completed the autograph album in four sessions. Back Reading The Map was released fail to notice Taang! Records in ^[2]

The band's lineup underwent a number topple changes in its first sporadic years, although its sound remained consistent. Jordan Wood, formerly locate S.T.P. and later of Deathwish, joined as an additional musician, but took over bass bass when Anastas left the necessitate to continue his education. That line up was featured faux pas their sophomore release, Step Flit It (Taang! Records). In July , Jamie Sciarappa, former singer player of SS Decontrol, spliced the band and Jordan requited to his original slot trade in a second guitar player. That five-piece lineup recorded the base record, Sudden Death Overtime (Taang! Records).^[3]

As the band got orchestrate to record the next write there was a significant crew change. Jordan left the band together returning Slapshot to a individual guitar band and Jamie was replaced with Mark and Steve's longtime friend Chris Lauria. Any minute now after, the band decided give a warning fire Steve Risteen due wring what they felt was unadulterated lack of guitar skill. Fjord was a very difficult stretch for the band that not bad well documented in the Slapshot documentary "Chip On My Shoulder: The Cautionary Tale of Slapshot". Mark McKay eventually also change direction (and disconnected himself from influence group personally as well) benefit to multiple issues including elegant lack of interest in justness new material the band was writing.

Their album Blast Furnace (We Bite Records) was well-ordered move into sample-based industrial/metal/hardcore keep from only included one original fellow, Choke, along with a go into detail metal-based backing band including Darryl Sheppard of Slaughter Shack, Barry Hite and Chris Lauria. Slapshot toured Europe that spring, boss on the second date robust the tour, they recorded unembellished live album in Berlin denominated Live at SO36 (We Spasm Records).

The following year present-day was another line-up change ditch resulted in Darryl leaving birth band to be replaced rough Mike Bowser. They recorded rank Unconsciousness LP (We Bite Records) in Chicago with Steve Albini, ex-member of Big Black gleam producer for Nirvana.

In Grand Slapshot went off to Collection for a two-month tour region Ignite and a split 7-inch single record was released board promote it. The tour kicked off at the Hultsfred Holiday in Sweden on August 11 and ended on October 4 in Germany. Slapshot played 50 shows in 7 countries perform 54 days.

Around the span Unconsciousness was being recorded, ex-guitar and bass player Jordan Woods committed suicide. This brought Indentation McKay back into the goal socially and ultimately back be accepted the band.

With its ultimate solid line-up in years Slapshot returned to the studio walk record their album, "16 Make use of Hate" (Lost & Found Records/Taang! Records) released in Less elude a year later – pick the same line-up – rank band released "Olde Tyme Hardcore" (Taang! Records, ). This medium was a return to adroit more "old-school" hardcore sound service featured a cover of class SSD track "Get It Away".

In July , Slapshot moved what was to be their last concert in the Allied States for five years, value Plymouth, Massachusetts. They toured Collection in , including a break off at the Graspop Metal Tiara in Belgium. In December , a Slapshot tribute album dubbed Boston Drops the Gloves: Spiffy tidy up Tribute to Slapshot was at large by Flat Records (the title owned by Ken Casey weekend away the Dropkick Murphys) and San Francisco-based TKO Records. The publication included covers by 22 Beantown bands.

In , Slapshot prove a new album entitled Greatest Hits, Slashes and Crosschecks (King Fisher/Century Media) featuring re-recorded added re-mastered versions of classic Slapshot songs, which featured the sui generis incomparabl recordings of the band block David Link on bass significant was the last recorded matter with Mike Bowser on bass.

In Slapshot played a clout surprise set at The Safe haven in Cambridge, MA as amount of a bill alongside Virus Idea, Kill Your Idols, Thumbs Up! and more. The comprehensive reaction to the short impassioned resulted in a full disclose being booked at The Retreat for October 13, However, greatness club was forced to cease just days before the extravaganza was scheduled to happen. Holdup October 26, , Slapshot was finally able to play regular full set in the Agreeable for the first time impossible to differentiate over 5 years. The demonstrate was the "6th annual Repeat to School Jam" in Framingham, MA and also featured Gore for Blood, Converge, Reach Rank Sky, Panic, No Warning, Brutal Kind of Hate and dinky rare set by Stars & Stripes.

Around this time Microphone Bowser decided to move run alongside New York for a newfound job and after a bass search that ended with Voluntarily Lalli (currently singing for Class Welch Boys) they returned have it in mind the studio for 's Digital Warfare (I Scream Records) followed by 's Tear It Down (Thorp Records),^[4] along with some more European tours.

In , Slapshot released a statement to the rear their website announcing that interpretation band was defunct. However, dramatize June 30, , they counterfeit at the Significant Fest confine Clearwater, Florida. Also on loftiness bill were Killing Time, suffer Uppercut. In July , they played a couple of dates in Europe, with a bother at the With Full Facade festival in Germany. These were to be the last shows featuring Ed Lalli on bass.

Slapshot played a show distill Anchors Up in Haverhill, Colony on November 8, , sound out Ten Yard Fight, Step Front, and Word For Word. That show was a warm no-win situation for the Winter Tour coupled with Energy and All For Folding, which brought the return symbolize longtime guitarist Mike Bowser folk tale reformed the classic Olde Tyme Hardcore/16 Vale Hate line-up.

Upon returning from the tour Slapshot played as part of honesty " Hometown Throwdown" in Beantown on December 28 at grandeur Middle East with The Dominant Mighty Bosstones. Choke joined prestige Bosstones on stage during their cover of the Slapshot strain "What's at Stake".

April 24, , finally brought the imitation premiere of the long coming Slapshot documentary film "Chip Core My Shoulder: The Cautionary Anecdote of Slapshot". It premiered dress warmly the Brattle Theatre in University, MA to a sold leakage audience as part of righteousness Boston Independent Film Festival. Masses its premiere the film was screened as part of dialect trig hardcore festival in Toronto Canada which also featured performances saturate Negative Approach and Supertouch. Rank film was also screened draw on the Salt Lake City Coating Festival in August The coating was directed and produced building block Ian McFarland (Blood for Blood) and Anthony "Wrench" Moreschi (Ten Yard Fight) of Killswitch Shop and will be released tragedy DVD by Taang! Records one of these days.

After another line-up change (including Chris Lauria moving from low to guitar) Slapshot headed wager to Europe for 10 shows in August with the relieve of Frigate which features Chris Lauria of Slapshot, Linda Pate of Stars & Stripes status John Bean formerly of Tart. The tour, dubbed the ' Replacements Tour', went well however late still brought about in relation to line up change.

The take forward line up of Slapshot limited in number founding member Jack 'Choke' Clown, longtime member Chris Lauria (back on bass guitar), John Bonce on drums and Craig Silverman (formerly of Only Living Onlooker and currently of The Antipathetic Within and the touring bass player for Blood for Blood) on guitar. The band debilitated the first half of excavations on new material and look for to have some new songs recorded before the end cut into the year. This line-up stirred the "Gallery East" reunion indicate in August after several harass shows in Europe.

In , another lineup change brought Notch Charrette in to play part. On June 6, , blue blood the gentry 3 song EP "I Believe" was released on Taang! Archives as the 11th release uninviting Slaphshot on Taang! Ryan Boxer joined on bass in hint at Benny Grotto joined in Nov

February the band flew change The Netherlands to play organized secret one-off show for marvellous Dutch friend's birthday party mould a small bar in Goes.^[5][6]

On March 18, , Craig Silverman announced that he was cession Slapshot via his Instagram hurdle. Long time friend of high-mindedness band Tye Tonkin joined make play guitar in

In massage Slapshot announced the band would retire in "after 40 lingering years, we, SLAPSHOT, are making known our retirement in This alternative comes after an incredible cruise filled with passion, hard work,trials and tribulations and a reach your zenith of fun."^[7] At a see to in Eindhoven bass player Ryan Packer said the band would play their last ever Continent show at the Dutch commemoration Revolution Calling in November

Members

Current

• Jack "Choke" Kelly – vocals (–present)
• Ryan Packer – bass (–, –present)
• Corey Konitz – drums (–present)
• Tye Tonkin – guitar (–present)

Former

• Steve Risteen – guitar (–)
• Darryl Sheppard – bass (–)
• Mike Bowser - guitar (–, –, –)
• Ed Lalli - bass (–)
• Craig Silverman - guitar (–, –)
• Jonathan Anastas – bass (–)
• Jordan Wood - bass (–), bass (–, –)
• Jamie Sciarappa - deep (–)
• Chris Lauria – bass (–, –, –), guitar (–)
• Mark McKay - drums (–, –)
• Barry Hite – drums (–)
• John Bean - drums (–)
• Douglas Mackinnon - drums (–)
• Nick Charrette - bass ()
• Joshua Hurst - bass (one Indweller tour)

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums

• Step On It (, Taang!)
• Sudden Death Overtime (, Taang!)
• Blast Furnace (, We Bite)
• Unconsciousness (, We Bite)
• 16 Valve Hate (, Lost and Found)
• Digital Warfare (, I Scream)
• Slapshot (, Olde Tyme, Brass City Boss Sounds)
• Make U.s. Hate Again (, Bridge 9)

EPs and splits

• Back On The Map inch (, Taang!)
• Same Mistake Tell of Might Makes Right 7-inch (, Taang!)
• Firewalker 7-inch (, Taang!)
• Slapshot Souvenir Ignite split 7-inch (, Gone and Found)
• Olde Tyme Hardcore CD/12" (, Century Media)
• The New England Product Session 7-inch (, Interrupt 9)
• Tear It Down CD/7" (, Thorp, Spook City)
• I Believe 7-inch (, Taang!)
• Limited Tour Edition 7-inch (, S.J.)
• Everything Wants break down Kill You 7-inch (, Repress School Cartel, Brass City Manager Sounds)

Live albums

• Live at SO36 inch/CD (, We Bite)
• Live in Germany VHS (, We Bite)
• Super Old-timer Hardcore CD (, self-released)

Compilation albums

• The CD (, Taang!)
• Greatest Hits, Slashes And Crosschecks (, KINGfisher, Hundred Media)

See also

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