7 Seconds

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7 Seconds

Kevin Seconds
Background information
Origin Reno, Nevada, USA
Genres Hardcore punk, punk rock
Years active 1980–present
Labels SideOneDummy Records
Website Official website
Members
Kevin Seconds
Steve Youth
Troy Mowat
Bobby Adams
Former members
Tom Munist
Dim Menace

Jim Diederichsen
Alan White
Tony Toxic
Dan Pozniak
Ron Doig
Belvy K
Spiz Hughes
Josef Bansuelo

7 Seconds is an American hardcore punk band from Reno, Nevada. Formed on January 17, 1980 by brothers Kevin Seconds (guitar, vocals) and Steve Youth (bass, vocals), along with the Borghino brothers Tom Munist (drums) and Dim Menace (vocals). Dim Menace's fist-brandishing scowl on the cover of the Skins, Brains, & Guts EP is one of the most iconic images in punk rock.[citation needed]

Three decades into their career, 7 Seconds continues to write, record, and tour to this day. Their most recent album is Take It Back, Take It On, Take It Over!. Today 7 Seconds remains as one of the longest-lived hardcore punk bands in history. Over the years, the band has been lumped in with other bands as "straight edge" but members of 7 Seconds have never embraced the label for themselves.

They are considered by many around the world to be the definitive "positive hardcore" band.

Currently they are touring, writing and recording new songs.

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[edit] Biography

7 Seconds inspired the straight edge youth crew movement in the 80's hardcore scene.

The band started by releasing some poorly-recorded, but highly energetic, EPs, most of which were later re-released as "alt.music.hardcore" and "Old School" compilation CDs. 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," "Something to Believe In," and "Another Shot from Bracken."

Their first full-length LP "The Crew" was recorded in 1983 and released by BYO Records, as was its successor - the classic hardcore EP "Walk Together Rock Together". With the "New Wind" LP, the band dramatically expanded its sound and style with audible elements of a sometimes quieter, more melodic and accessible sound. Many writers have credited this particular period of 7Seconds' career as being highly influential on many pop punk, emocore and indie rock bands that came along much later. Subsequent LPs moved deeper into mainstream territory with proto-emo and U2-like sounds. The "7 Seconds" LP continued their musical experimentation. However, the band returned to an old-school hardcore sound in 1999 with the "Good to Go" album.

[edit] Origins of bandname

In the February, 2005 issue of AMP magazine, in an article titled, "7 Seconds: 25 Years of Our Core," Kevin Seconds explained how the band's name originated:

“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.”

[edit] Influences on newer bands

Bryan Kienlen, bass player from The Bouncing Souls is seen wearing a 7 Seconds t-shirt in the music video, "Gone" from the album How I spent My Summer Vacation.

Kevin Seconds did a split album with Alkaline Trio lead singer Matt Skiba that was released in September 17, 2002.

The Hold Steady reference the band in the title track of their 2008 album Stay Positive.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Demos (Cassettes)

  • Drastic Measures (cassette), 1980
  • Socially Fucked Up (cassette), 1981
  • Three Chord Politics (cassette), 1981

[edit] 7" EPs

  • Skins, Brains and Guts (Alternative Tentacles, 1982)
  • Committed For Life (Squirtdown, 1983)
  • Blasts From the Past (Positive Force, 1985)
  • 1980 Reissue (Official Bootleg, 1991)
  • Wartime/A&A in the USA/1990 (Can of Worms insert, 1993)
  • Happy Rain/Naked (Eating Blur, 1993)
  • Split With Kill Your Idols (SideOneDummy, 2004)

[edit] Albums

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

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