FROM THE NYHC BOOK ARCHIVES: Keith Burkhardt (Cause For Alarm)
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This interview with Cause For Alarm vocalist Keith Burkhardt was conducted in the fall of 2012 for my second book, NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980 - 1990. How did you get into punk? There was this weekly music magazine in New Jersey called The Aquarian and I would open it up every week, look at the club listings and try to find bands that just sounded cool. I remember going to Peppermint Lounge to see Psychedelic Furs and Nash the Slash and this all-girl band called The Mo-Dettes. I saw a million bands that way. The thing that launched me to be fully committed to Punk was seeing the Dead Kennedys at Bonds. I have to say, there was no looking back after that show. It was this incredible eye-opener; my Punk ‘A-Ha!’ moment. From that point on, me and my good friends Jeff Randozo and Bill Kerns would get into the car after I was done delivering pizzas in Nutley and go to Hardcore shows at Irving Plaza. Max’s is where I first saw the Bad Brains, which was this total eye-opening, spiritual experience. I got really into it.
FROM THE NYHC BOOK ARCHIVES: Keith Burkhardt (Cause For Alarm)
FROM THE NYHC BOOK ARCHIVES: Keith Burkhardt…
FROM THE NYHC BOOK ARCHIVES: Keith Burkhardt (Cause For Alarm)
This interview with Cause For Alarm vocalist Keith Burkhardt was conducted in the fall of 2012 for my second book, NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980 - 1990. How did you get into punk? There was this weekly music magazine in New Jersey called The Aquarian and I would open it up every week, look at the club listings and try to find bands that just sounded cool. I remember going to Peppermint Lounge to see Psychedelic Furs and Nash the Slash and this all-girl band called The Mo-Dettes. I saw a million bands that way. The thing that launched me to be fully committed to Punk was seeing the Dead Kennedys at Bonds. I have to say, there was no looking back after that show. It was this incredible eye-opener; my Punk ‘A-Ha!’ moment. From that point on, me and my good friends Jeff Randozo and Bill Kerns would get into the car after I was done delivering pizzas in Nutley and go to Hardcore shows at Irving Plaza. Max’s is where I first saw the Bad Brains, which was this total eye-opening, spiritual experience. I got really into it.