@Bleedred @njdevils1982
Missed the game last seeing Anti-Flag and Flogging Molly in Montclair, NJ.
Don't really listen to either, but have seen both back in the day. My friends who are like 6-7 years younger than me (Cage Helmet from this forum and his bestie) used to really love Anti-Flag back in like 1996-1998. They were like 13-15 back then, but I think they kind of stopped listening to them shortly after. The only song I really remember by them other than the die for your government song was some song about turning on the news and wanting to smash his TV cause some rich kid was crying cause her boyfriend left her and the only reason this shit is playing is to make us feel sorry for f***ing millionaire, and then the next verse was some old man jerking off to a some starving model on TV that was 6 foot 4 and only weighed 100 pounds. I somehow thought of that song last year when some stupid celebrity couple was breaking up and we were supposed to feel sorry for them. I think it was the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard bullshit. It did have a really cool guitar solo.
There was also another one which I'm pretty sure was a joke song, about someone's daddy being rich. I remember the line about how his daddy was a motherf***in scumbag who tried to stick a needle into his dick to get high. That was like word for word the song. But I haven't heard any of this stuff since 1996-1998.
One other random Anti-Flag connection. One guy my friend was roommates with over 20 years ago in Jersey originally was from Pittsburgh and grew up with a couple of them. He even lived on the same street as one of the original members. He didn't really listen to their music, but said he had grown up around them and listened to ''Some of that punk music back in the 80's and early 90's'' but also said that bands like Youth Of Today and Minor Threat were both white power, racist skinhead bands with a hate message. Myself and my friend who was roommates with him both him into his place real quick and fact checked him on that one. He said that he was misinformed due to knowing some racist skinheads that listened to these bands and saw that Ian MacKaye and members of YOT had shaved heads and ignorantly assumed they spread a hate message and were boneheads because the boneheads listened to their bands. He also cited the Minor Threat song guilty of being white as a racist song, which I think Ian MacKaye came out and said he wrote because he went to a high school with a lot of black kids who didn't like him because he was white or one of the few white kids in school and he was bullied by them.
That was even weirder than people who assume the Dead Kennedys were a racist band because they heard the N word in Holiday In Cambodia and We've Got a bigger problem now, not being familiar with Jello writing lyrics that satirically mocked those he opposed from their point of view perspective.
As far as Flogging Molly goes, I always thought this was one of the coolest songs ever
. I put that bike together from frame and forks. I wish I still had it.
