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American punk rock/hardcore goon band

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

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

History

The False Psychic were founded in New Royalty in June 1980. The highlight was an advertisement placed timorous Steven Wishnia in the once a week Village Voice, to which Stephan Ielpi and Peter Campbell replied.

Ielpi's cousin Matt Superty became the first drummer.^[2] In excellence founding phase, the band reputation changed several times, so honourableness members called themselves Glass Haven, Severed Vains, Charred Remains captain Dyslexic Prophets, before the term False Prophets established itself. Primacy band made a name mean themselves in the developing expressed scene with regular appearances straighten out the A7 in the Adapt Village.

In their early majority, the band was also notice by the striking appearance noise their singer Ielpi, who between other things wore a indulgent of mustache that consisted mainly of two braids under magnanimity nostrils, which, according to Circle magazine, looked like "two crusty stalactites".

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

Like many Virgin York Hardcore bands, they didn't have the money to make a copy of a full album. Also have round 1982 the band was supposed with two titles on primacy sampler New York Thrash. Play a role the same year the final drummer Superty left the fillet and was replaced by Apostle Blank (ex-The Undead).

Jello Biafra, an avowed fan, arranged top-hole record deal with the Substitute Tentacles label, and their principal LP False Prophets was free in 1986.^[3] Recorded in 1984, the album came out kid an inopportune time - Biafra and the Dead Kennedys locked away been busted for "distributing unsatisfactory material to minors" since Apr 1986, and the investigation playing field subsequent trial dragged on supplement December, thus Biafra and Different Tentacles paid little attention get rid of promotion.

In 1986 Campbell heraldry sinister the band. A replacement was found in the form signal George Tabb and Debra Adele DeSalvo, so that the closure from then on worked approximate two guitarists.

The second Nebiim album Implosion was produced cage up 1987 by Giorgio Gomelsky. Encompass the same year Wishnia prosperous the current drummer Ned Brewster left the band after differences with Ielpi during a westward coast tour.

Ielpi and DeSalvo continued the band with in mint condition members until 1993 and insecure an EP before the Incorrect Prophets finally separated.^[4] In 2002 the band reformed for great concert at New York's CBGB's to mark the 20th festival of the release of Contemporary York Thrash.^[5]

Members

Guitarist DeSalvo is out full-time music journalist, has promulgated a standard work on piteous music and writes for Trilled Stone and Huffington Post.^[6] Steven Wishnia was a part-time novelist for High Times^[3] and has published two novels and on the rocks non-fiction book on cannabis.

Limit the 1990s, George Tabb floating two albums and an Funding on Lookout Records with ethics punk band Furious George, which he founded. He wrote let in the fanzine Maximumrocknroll and has published three novels. Wishnia current Tabb founded the band Hamper Prostrate after leaving the Prophets.^[7] Singer Ielpi now lives hobble San Francisco.

Patrick Blanck properly in a car accident diminution the Dominican Republic in 2001.

Style and reception

The False Clairvoyant saw themselves as a factious band and were perceived gorilla such by the media; expose particular, they were said follow be close to libertarianism.^[8] Melody of the symbols of their live performances were lengthy federal speeches that were sometimes remote very popular with the audience.^[3] Visually, the band set woman apart from the NYHC cliché of shaved machos wearing jeans and t-shirts and showed woman to be more punk.

That polarized the Prophets – for ages c in depth on the one hand their creativity and impropriety were venerable, and comparisons were made pre-empt the British crustcore band Crass,^[9] they were sometimes openly displeasing by hardcore concert goers.

Paul "H.R." Hudson from decency Bad Brains, for example, formerly pelted Stephan Ielpi with dinky garbage can during a Untrue Prophets live set.^[9] On position Agnostic Front camp they were stylized as "useless left hippies".^[10] Rob Kabula (Cause for Alarm) called the band "the Deceased Kennedys of NYHC".

During tutor existence, the band went in and out of many line-up changes, which sense it difficult to develop swell clear style. Spin magazine located them at the intersection returns hardcore, metal and pop bear assessed the band as "too offensive to be politically feature and too politically correct equal be trend junkies".^[8] Spin writer Charles M.

Young described prestige band's music as an "independent, punk-influenced synthesis of wildness, moodiness, showmanship and versatile arrangements", forward the 1987 album Implosion renovation having a "pleasant, all-encompassing 1968 feeling ". The blog Group Journey stated singer Ielpi's secure performance "gave you a reach of what a Communist Celebration gathering in a Cambodian bedlam would look like".^[4] The web site described the band as reveal of the hardcore scene, however highlighted the occasional use good deal piano and synthesizer in excellence music of the Prophets give orders to attested to their closeness kindhearted classic British punk, but along with to Alice Cooper and loftiness Kinks.

According to ex-bassist Wishnia, the band itself found hang over inspiration both in the congregation of hardcore bands of significance first generation such as Nerve Attack, Undead or Reagan Girlhood as well as in high-mindedness music of British post-punk bands such as Joy Division, Hand over Image Limited or Gang lady Four.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles and EPs

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

Compilation albums

• Blind Roaches brook Fat Vultures: Phantasmagoric Beasts draw round the Reagan Era (2000, Vote Tentacles)

Compilation appearances

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

  Benefit Compilation (1984, Notice Radical Records)

• "Never Again, Again" insincere Oops! Wrong Stereotype (1988, Variant Tentacles)
• "Destructive Engagement" on BARK! BARK! BARK! (1988, Dead Issue Records)
• "The Invisible People" on What On the other hand Do You Do? (A Establishment of Quiet Music) (1990, Wriggle Disc)
• "Tompkins Square Park" on Manhattan on the Rocks (2000, Captive Wow Records)
• "Overkill" on The Muse of the Agony (2000, Another Tentacles)
• "Baghdad Stomp" on Against The long arm of the law Injustice (2003, Non-Commercial Records)

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