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Established in 1998,
Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture
and social history
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THE BAND
Keith Morris
Vocals
Greg Hetson
Guitar
Roger Rogerson
Bass
Lucky Lehrer
Drums
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Circle Jerks
As the original singer in Black Flag (a post later occupied by
Henry Rollins), Circle Jerks' vocalist Keith Morris can lay claim
to being an American punk pioneer. Morris's next band was an
equally influential, and arguably even more noxious presence on
the hardcore scene - the punk offshoot that valued speed and
ferocity over anything else.
By turns brattish, brutal and funny, the bands' 1980 debut
album Group Sex contained 14 songs and buzzed by in as
many minutes (the songs ranged in length from 1:35 to a mere 27
seconds), powered by some 'special school' drumming, and
skirting suburban teen ennui, the Military-Industrial complex and
a snotty contempt for the middle class and middle-aged.
Like The Ramones running down a very steep hill . . .
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