I’m not forgetting one of my
main purposes for writing this blog and one and important is definitely my high
appreciation for TEAR IT UP, one of the best hardcore punk bands that ever
existed. Before Tear It Up, there was DEAD NATION, a band that is also
extremely important in inspiring lots of kids and bands in DIY community to
play passionate and fast pissed off hardcore punk and that it’s OK to say how
you feel even if that sometimes means that you think how everything sucks and
only getting out all these feelings and frustrations inside of you through
playing fast & pissed off hc/punk make sense. Dead Nation was also
important for forming Tear It Up because late Dead Nation and first Tear It Up
line up were consisted of almost all same dudes.
Anyway, some months ago, one
of the cool dudes called Andrew from US that I’m corresponding with about the
topics like Dead Nation and Tear It Up sent me a cool interview with Dead
Nation. The interview was published in Subsidized X Mess zine, issue 2, summer
2000 and as far as I know, the author was from New Jersey. But, that’s all I
know about the zine because I don’t have the whole zine, just this interview.
The interview was done in the last period of the band, probably few months ago
before they broke up in June of 2000. Dave Ackerman (vocals) and Matt Wechter
(drums) answered the interview. I like the interview and both Dave and Matt
were pretty passionate in answering the questions and explaining what this band
meant to them.
I guess that Dead Nation didn’t do much interviews and that most
of the interviews they did were in their last period after Dead End LP came
out. Still I’m missing most of the Dead Nation interviews because except this
one, I only have two more, one from a Belgian zine called Stand Apart # 3 and
the other is from Maximum Rocknroll # 210 issue. Both were done near the end of
the band, actually the MRR view was done when the band was already broke up.
So, if anyone out there has any Dead Nation interviews and you want to share it
with me, write me, pretty please! The interview is in PDF format so just click
on the link and download it. That’s it, the Nation are fuckin’ dead!
I am the Snake
Dead Dave
Matt Suxx
Doug Life
Matt Roxx
Paul
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