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"7 Seconds (often stylized as 7Seconds) was an American hardcore punk band from Reno, Nevada which was formed on January 17, 1980, by two sets of brothers. The band has gone through numerous lineup changes over the subsequent years, with only Kevin Seconds and Steve Youth remaining constant members. The final lineup of 7 Seconds was Kevin Seconds (vocals), Steve Youth (bass), Troy Mowat (drums), and Bobby Adams (guitar). History =Formation= 7 Seconds was formed on January 17, 1980, by two sets of brothers; the Marvelli brothers, using the punk rock names "Kevin Seconds" and "Steve Youth," and the Borghino brothers, who were known as "Tom Munist" and "Dim Menace." Asked about the origins of the band's name in a December 1982 interview with Flipside magazine, Kevin Seconds recalled: > "...I was ordering The Dils single "198 Seconds of The Dils" from Bomp and I > wrote it on a desk and the ink it said 97 Seconds; and then we saw this > movie Day of the Jackals or something and all through it there were > references to 7 Seconds, and the Dils were like our idols... So we were > looking for a name and we were looking at this racing book and it said 7 > seconds and we said, 'fuck it, must be an omen,' so we picked it. It's a > short, intense name.""7 Seconds," Flipside, whole no. 37 (Jan. 1983), pp. > 22-23. This story evolved over time. In the February 2005 issue of AMP, in an article titled, "7 Seconds: 25 Years of Our Core", Kevin Seconds told this tale: > "We were big fans of The Dils, they had this EP, 198 Seconds of The Dils and > I was so in love with punk rock that I would just write album titles on my > clothes. This was still when Steve and I lived with my mom. We had this desk > in this room we shared and I wrote '197 seconds of The Dils,' I miswrote the > title. Over time, everything else faded, but the 7 Seconds part was there, > and I circled it, I thought it looked cool." In 1981, Munist and Menace left to form a new band called Section 8. =Recording history= 7 Seconds has floated across several genres of rock. The band's early releases were several EPs including 1982's Skins, Brains and Guts, most of which were later re-released on the alt.music.hardcore and Old School compilation CDs.Martin C. Strong, The Great Alternative & Indie Discography, Canongate, 1999; pp. 552-553 All three demos were released on a bootleg release named 7 Seconds - Hardcore Rules, 80-82. They also appeared on the 1985 hardcore compilation Cleanse the Bacteria, in addition to numerous other compilations, such as Not So Quiet On the Western Front (Alt. Tentacles, 1982), Something to Believe In (BYO, 1984), Party or Go Home/We Got Power (Mystic, 1983), and Nuke Your Dink (Positive Force, 1984). They became closely associated with the Straight Edge movement and helped start the Youth Crew movement in 1984 with The Crew. Their first full-length album, The Crew, was recorded in 1983-84 and released by BYO Records, as was its successor - the classic hardcore EP Walk Together Rock Together. With the New Wind album, the band dramatically expanded its sound and style with audible elements of a sometimes quieter, slower, more melodic and accessible sound. Many writers have credited this particular period of 7 Seconds' career as being highly influential on many pop punk and indie rock bands that came along much later. Subsequent LPs moved deeper into mainstream territory with a U2-like sound. The 7 Seconds album continued their musical experimentation. The band broke free in 1995 with The Music, The Message, moving back somewhat into their roots. The Music, The Message was released on Sony (BMI), the first release on a major label throughout the band's history. Earlier material was on various homegrown labels, completely self-produced, or put out on Kevin Seconds own label, Positive Force Records (AKA United Front), before BYO Records housed them. However, the band returned to an old-school hardcore sound in 1999 with the Good to Go album. 2005 came the release of Take It Back, Take It On, Take It Over! on SideOneDummy, completing the evolution back to their Hardcore roots. =Legacy= 7 Seconds is believed to be the first band to refer to themselves primarily as hardcore. After their first show on March 2, 1980, in Newsletter NWIN/SPUNK No. 1 they described their band as hardcore new wave. Live at Hadad's Lake, Best Friends Day RVA, 2011 Vocalist Kevin Seconds has gone on to have a lengthy solo career, becoming an important folk punk singer too, doing releases with people including Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Mike Scott of Lay It on the Line (band). Dim Menace's fist-brandishing scowl on the cover of the Skins, Brains, & Guts EP is one of the most iconic images in hardcore. Sacramento News & Review speaks at length of their influence in the positive hardcore movement and their positive effect on the punk culture. In May 2013 it was announced that 7 Seconds had signed to Rise Records, with plans to record a new 7" and a full-length album that summer in Sacramento. =Break up= On March 20, 2018, 7 Seconds announced their breakup via their official Facebook page. Discography =Demos (Cassettes)= *Drastic Measures (cassette), 1980 *Socially Fucked Up (cassette), 1981 *Three Chord Politics (cassette), 1981 =7" EPs= *Skins, Brains and Guts (Alternative Tentacles, 1982) *Committed for Life (Squirtdown, 1983) *Blasts from the Past (Positive Force, 1985) *Praise (Positive Force Records, 1987) *1980 Reissue (Official Bootleg, 1991) *Happy Rain/Naked (Eating Blur, 1993) *Split with Kill Your Idols (SideOneDummy, 2004) = Albums = *United We Stand (Aborted and later Re-issued as Old School - Headhunter Records/Cargo Records, 1983) *The Crew (BYO, 1984) *Walk Together, Rock Together (Positive Force/BYO, 1985) *New Wind (Positive Force/BYO, 1986) *Praise [four-song EP] (Positive Force/BYO, 1986) *Live! One Plus One (Positive Force/Giant, 1987) *Ourselves (Restless, 1988) *Soulforce Revolution (Restless, 1989); No. 153 on the 1989 Billboard 200 *Old School (Headhunter/Cargo, 1991) *Out the Shizzy (Headhunter/Cargo, 1993) *alt.music.hardcore (Headhunter/Cargo, 1995) *The Music, the Message (Sony/BMI, 1995) *Good to Go (SideOneDummy, 1999) *Scream Real Loud...Live! (SideOneDummy, 2000) *Take It Back, Take It On, Take It Over! (SideOneDummy, 2005) *Leave a Light On (Rise, 2014) =Compilations= *Not So Quiet on the Western Front (MRR/Alternative Tentacles, 1982) *We Got Power: Party or Go Home (Mystic, 1983) *Something to Believe In (BYO, 1984) *Nuke Your Dink (Positive Force, 1984) *Cleanse the Bacteria (Pusmort, 1985) *Another Shot for Bracken (Positive Force, 1986) *Four Bands That Could Change the World (Gasatanka, 1987) *Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, vol. 3 (Flipside, 1987) *Human Polity (One World Communications, 1993) *The Song Retains the Name, vol. 2 (Safe House, 1993) *Ten Years Later (Bossa Nova, 1997) *Short Music for Short People (Fat Wreck Chords, 1999) *Old School Punk Vol.1 (Walk Together, Rock Together) Footnotes External links *"The Subversive History of the Original 7 Seconds" *Kevin Seconds Podcast Radio Show on ipadio Category:Hardcore punk groups from Nevada Category:Straight edge groups Category:Musical quartets Category:Alternative Tentacles artists Category:Epic Records artists Category:BYO Records artists Category:Rise Records artists Category:Musical groups established in 1980 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 2018 Category:Sibling musical groups "
"Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 – May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays. Early life and education Michaels was born in New York City to Jewish parents; his father was born in Poland. He attended New York University and was awarded a BA degree, and then went on to earn an MA and PhD in English literature from the University of Michigan. After receiving his doctorate, Leonard Michaels moved to Berkeley, California, where he was to spend most of his adult life and become Professor of English at the University of California. Michaels would later explain literary theory to magazine readers across America. Literary career In 1969, Michael's first book was published – Going Places, a collection of short stories. His follow-up book, another collection of short stories, was I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, published in 1975. It was considered by some as strong as Michaels' debut. Michaels' first novel, released in 1981, was The Men's Club. It is story-like comedy that simultaneously attacks and celebrates the absurdities of men as they gather in a kind of urban support group. In 1986, the novel was made into a film, directed by Peter Medak, with the screenplay by Michaels, and starring Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Frank Langella. Michaels' second and last novel was published in 1992. Titled Sylvia, it is a fictionalized memoir of his first wife, Sylvia Bloch, who committed suicide. Sylvia is described in the book as "abnormally bright" but prone to violent rages, "like a madwoman imitating a college student." Sylvia incorporates passages from Michaels' diary, a selection of which was published under the title Time Out of Mind in 1999. Michaels became a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine in the 1990s. Other information Michaels was a Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He took part in anti-Vietnam war protests in the San Francisco Bay area, although he also accepted a description of himself as an 'unpolitical man'. He is interred at Oakmont Memorial Park, in Lafayette, California. Michaels had a daughter with his third wife, the poet Brenda Hillman. His son Jesse Michaels (from his second marriage) was the vocalist and primary lyricist in the seminal underground punk rock band Operation Ivy. Selected publications ;Short story collections: * Going Places (1969, ) * I Would Have Saved Them If I Could (1975, ) * Shuffle (1990, ) * A Girl With a Monkey: New and Selected Stories (2000, ) * The Collected Stories (2007, ) * The Nachman Stories (2017, ) ;Novels: * The Men's Club (1981, ) (filmed in 1986) * Sylvia (1992, ) ;Essays: * To Feel These Things (2000, ) * The Essays of Leonard Michaels 2009, ;Diary: * Time Out of Mind (1999, ) ;Others: * A Cat (1995, ) References External links * * The Improbable Moralist Both an appreciation of his art and review of The Collected Stories by Phillip Lopate; published in The Nation on-line June 21, 2007 (July 9, 2007 issue) * Leonard Michaels – let us not forget him review of The Collected Stories, by Paul Wilner. This piece appeared July 1, 2007 at SF Gate.com. The review also extends into a backlog of reflection about Michaels' Sylvia and an essay on Michaels' called Difficult Friends in Wendy Lesser's Room For Doubt. * To Live in a Culture: Leonard Michaels' Sylvia and The Collected Stories piece by Nora Griffin at The Brooklyn Rail * Interview: Wyatt Mason on Leonard Michaels at Harper's * Obituary of the University of California * – A reading of Michaels' story "Cryptology". * Category:1933 births Category:2003 deaths Category:20th- century American novelists Category:American male novelists Category:American male screenwriters Category:Jewish American novelists Category:Writers from Berkeley, California Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty Category:Burials in Contra Costa County, California Category:American male short story writers Category:University of Michigan alumni Category:20th- century American short story writers Category:20th-century American male writers Category:Screenwriters from California Category:20th-century American screenwriters "
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