Table of Contents
Foreword Chris Carrabba 8
Introduction Howie Abrams 14
Part I Growing up Koller 18
Part II Disco Sucks, Fuck Everything 38
Part III Sick of It All: That's the Name! 58
Part IV Road Less Traveled
1 So, What Are You Going to Do? 82
2 It's an Ongoing Give-and-Take Thing 86
3 The Asshole Brothers 93
4 The Shitbox 94
Part V How Can They Be Offended by That?! (Songwriting)
1 Not Opening the Floor to Political Discussion… 98
2 Injustice System 102
3 Alleyway Style 105
Part VI Blood, Sweat and No Tears
1 Harder Than You 108
Part VII Cool, More Shows!
1 I Don't Even Know How Anyone Got Our Phone Number 116
2 It Ain't About No Goldfish… (Touring with Exodus) 117
3 Oh Well, We Lost One of Your Guys (Touring with D.R.I. and Nasty Savage) 119
4 New Titans on the Bloc (Touring with Sepultura, Napalm Death, and Sacred Reich) 129
5 Urban Undisciplined (Touring with Biohazard) 144
Part VIII Europe Calling
1 Your Record Came Out on Sony Here, and Now People Say They Hate You! 152
2 Hello Marc, a Band Just Cancelled, I Have Room for Sick of It All (Festivals) 164
3 Always with Us (Embracing the Culture) 170
Part IX Alone
1 Just Smack Those Kids Already! 174
Part X Just Look Around
1 We've Got More Than Three Days This Time. That's Good. 182
Part XI Real Rock Concerts (Touring)
1 Time Doesn't Matter, Age Doesn't Matter 188
2 Just Goofing Around in the Van 192
3 Jackass before Jackass 195
4 They'd Poke at You and Poke at You Until You'd Snap 199
5 Head in a Bag 204
Part XII Romones, The Clash, Sex Pistols-All on Major Labels
1 Scratch the Surface 206
2 Built to Last 213
Part XIII More Real Rock Concerts (More Touring)
1 Too PC for Their Own Good (924 Gilman Street) 218
2 Drowning in Germany 220
3 Fuckin' Bus Drivers 223
4 Brushes with Greatness 225
5 September 11, 2001 231
Part XIV The Fat Years
1 If You Had Been with Fat, You'd All Own Your Own Homes by Now 238
2 Call to Arms 241
3 Yours Truly 244
4 Life on the Ropes 247
Part XV Wayne Lo
1 My God. It's on the Cover of the Daily News! 250
Part XVI Even More Real Rock Concerts (Even More Touring)
1 Fuckin' SLAYYYEEERRR! 254
2 Warped Tour 258
3 Rotten in the State of Denmark 261
4 Fucking Hammerhead 262
5 New York United 265
Part XVII The Century Media Years
1 Death to Tyrants 268
2 Based on a True Story 271
3 XXV Nonstop 274
4 Last Act of Defiance 276
5 Wake the Sleeping Dragon! 279
Part XVIII Staying Relevant
1 There's Fucking Stigma Attached to Hardcore! 284
Part XIX All in the Family
1 He's Uncle Freddy, and Then There's Uncle Vinnie, and Uncle Davey, and Uncle Lou.… 298
2 The Kids Will Have Their Say 312
3 Yo! Logan Tells Me You're in a Hard Rock Band 314
4 It's Kind of like Russian Roulette 316
Part XX A few of Our Favorite Things 322
Acknowledgments 328
About the Authors 332