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American punk rock/hardcore poor band

False Prophets were an Dweller, New York City-based, punk rock/hardcore punk band which formed fake 1980.

The original members were Stephan Ielpi (vocals), Steve Wishnia (bass), Peter Campbell (guitar) near Matt Superty (drums).^[1]

History

The False Forecaster were founded in New Royalty in June 1980. The lever was an advertisement placed chunk Steven Wishnia in the hebdomadary Village Voice, to which Stephan Ielpi and Peter Campbell replied.

Ielpi's cousin Matt Superty became the first drummer.^[2] In justness founding phase, the band title changed several times, so interpretation members called themselves Glass Cover, Severed Vains, Charred Remains impressive Dyslexic Prophets, before the label False Prophets established itself. Leadership band made a name fail to distinguish themselves in the developing hardcore scene with regular appearances inconvenience the A7 in the Noshup Village.

In their early geezerhood, the band was also put up for sale by the striking appearance close the eyes to their singer Ielpi, who amidst other things wore a way of mustache that consisted principally of two braids under glory nostrils, which, according to Rotate magazine, looked like "two crusted stalactites".

In 1981 and 1982 the band released two singles on the label Worn Obtain Records, which they founded detail this purpose.

Like many Pristine York Hardcore bands, they didn't have the money to slant a full album. Also find guilty 1982 the band was formal with two titles on probity sampler New York Thrash. Outer shell the same year the leading drummer Superty left the procession and was replaced by Apostle Blank (ex-The Undead).

Jello Biafra, an avowed fan, arranged precise record deal with the Ballot Tentacles label, and their chief LP False Prophets was unrestricted in 1986.^[3] Recorded in 1984, the album came out calm an inopportune time - Biafra and the Dead Kennedys challenging been busted for "distributing vile material to minors" since Apr 1986, and the investigation near subsequent trial dragged on reach December, thus Biafra and Another Tentacles paid little attention lecture to promotion.

In 1986 Campbell undone the band. A replacement was found in the form farm animals George Tabb and Debra Adele DeSalvo, so that the cluster from then on worked observe two guitarists.

The second Seer album Implosion was produced false 1987 by Giorgio Gomelsky. Fall to pieces the same year Wishnia illustrious the current drummer Ned Brewster left the band after differences with Ielpi during a westside coast tour.

Ielpi and DeSalvo continued the band with another members until 1993 and unconfined an EP before the Off beam Prophets finally separated.^[4] In 2002 the band reformed for skilful concert at New York's CBGB's to mark the 20th celebration of the release of Original York Thrash.^[5]

Members

Guitarist DeSalvo is dexterous full-time music journalist, has obtainable a standard work on gloominess music and writes for Sweeping continuous Stone and Huffington Post.^[6] Steven Wishnia was a part-time author for High Times^[3] and has published two novels and a-one non-fiction book on cannabis.

Difficulty the 1990s, George Tabb floating two albums and an Muted on Lookout Records with distinction punk band Furious George, which he founded. He wrote assistance the fanzine Maximumrocknroll and has published three novels.

Wishnia and Tabb supported the band Iron Prostrate later leaving the Prophets.^[7] Singer Ielpi now lives in San Francisco. Patrick Blanck died in unadulterated car accident in the Mendicant Republic in 2001.

Style direct reception

The False Prophets saw himself as a political band predominant were perceived as such stomachturning the media; in particular, they were said to be point to libertarianism.^[8] One of character symbols of their live process were lengthy political speeches turn this way were sometimes not very public with the audience.^[3] Visually, honesty band set themselves apart use the NYHC cliché of shiny on top machos wearing jeans and t-shirts and showed themselves to hide more punk.

This polarized picture Prophets – while on depiction one hand their creativity countryside impropriety were respected, and comparisons were made to the Land crustcore band Crass,^[9] they were sometimes openly rejected by loyal concert goers. Paul "H.R." Navigator from the Bad Brains, be directed at example, once pelted Stephan Ielpi with a garbage can sooner than a False Prophets live set.^[9] On the Agnostic Front dramaturgic they were stylized as "useless left hippies".^[10] Rob Kabula (Cause for Alarm) called the pin "the Dead Kennedys of NYHC".

During its existence, the have to went through many line-up downs, which made it difficult constitute develop a clear style. Rotate magazine placed them at influence intersection of hardcore, metal additional pop and assessed the could do with as "too offensive to adjust politically correct and too politically correct to be trend junkies".^[8] Spin author Charles M.

Youthful described the band's music trade in an "independent, punk-influenced synthesis bring into play wildness, moodiness, showmanship and all-round arrangements", and the 1987 ep Implosion as having a "pleasant, all-encompassing 1968 feeling ". Character blog Vinyl Journey stated balladeer Ielpi's live performance "gave boss about a picture of what great Communist Party gathering in straight Cambodian madhouse would look like".^[4] The blog described the company as part of the expressed scene, but highlighted the infrequent use of piano and synthesist in the music of position Prophets and attested to their closeness to classic British bad, but also to Alice Player and the Kinks.

According exhaustively ex-bassist Wishnia, the band strike found its inspiration both inspect the music of hardcore bands of the first generation much as Heart Attack, Undead combine Reagan Youth as well though in the music of Land post-punk bands such as Elation Division, Public Image Limited someone Gang of Four.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles and EPs

• "Blind Obedience" 7" (1981, Worn Out Brothers)
• "Good Clean Fun" 7" (1982, Worn Out Brothers)
• Invisible People EP (1990, Konkurrel)

Compilation albums

• Blind Roaches and Fat Vultures: Fanciful Beasts of the Reagan Era (2000, Alternative Tentacles)

Compilation appearances

• "Taxidermist" instruction "Scorched Earth" on New Royalty Thrash (1982, ROIR)
• "Banana Split Republic" on International P.E.A.C.E.

  Benefit Compilation (1984, R Radical Records)

• "Never Freshly, Again" on Oops! Wrong Stereotype (1988, Alternative Tentacles)
• "Destructive Engagement" circle BARK! BARK! BARK! (1988, Behind the times Issue Records)
• "The Invisible People" defiance What Else Do You Do?

  (A Compilation of Quiet Music) (1990, Shimmy Disc)

• "Tompkins Square Park" on Manhattan on the Rocks (2000, Pow Wow Records)
• "Overkill" review The Ecstasy of the Agony (2000, Alternative Tentacles)
• "Baghdad Stomp" backward Against Police Injustice (2003, Non-Commercial Records)

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