HOW THEY ROCKED IN THE EARLY '80s -- SHAVED HEADS, HARDCORE ATTITUDES, & BASS GUITARS.
PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on Jonathan Anastas, bass player, lyricist, & co-founder of Boston straight edge hardcore punk band D.Y.S. (DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES), plus singer/co-founder/lyricist Dave Smalley in the back, performing live in the early '80, c. 1982-'83.
PIC #2: The same live shot of Anastas and Smalley, published in "Flipside" zine, c. 1983.
NO ECHO: "How did you end up meeting the guys from DYS and forming the band?"
JONATHAN ANASTAS (D.Y.S. bass player): "Dave Smalley and I got connected through an ad. I can’t remember which one of us put an ad up but it was an ad to put a hardcore band together. And we kind of met a little bit through the Boston Crew and he brought a drummer who was a horrible drummer and I ended up meeting a guitar player who was a very good guitar player but he ultimately wanted to be in Van Halen. Those 4 people were the nucleus of DYS and then we ended up replacing the guitar player with a different guitar player, we ended up replacing the drummer with Dave Collins and then we replaced the guitar player who replaced the first guitar player because he wasn’t straight edge and Al Barile suggested Andy Strachan to do it, who was also in the Boston Crew. So it was sort of through adjacency to hanging out with SSD really. It took a couple of incarnations to get to the "Brotherhood" incarnation."
-- NO ECHO, interview with "Jonathan Anastas (DYS, Slapshot, Decadence) Looks Back on His Boston Hardcore Days," by by Anthony Allen Bengal, published on May 5, 2021
Sources: www.noecho.net/interviews/jonathan-anastas-dys-slapshot-interview, various, etc...
