They were the "Boston Crew" incarnate—fast, straight-edged, and aggressively unmelodic. Jack "Choke" Kelly paced the front like a caged animal, his eyes daring anyone to breathe the wrong way. Behind him, was already hammering the kit, using Burma’s borrowed equipment because why bother bringing your own when you're just going to destroy it?
Two songs in, the ballroom was a sea of flailing limbs. Kids were flying off the stage, boots narrowly missing the expensive microphones the sound man had meticulously leveled for the headliners. Negative FX-Modern Problems
Dave Bass didn’t miss a beat. He stood up, grabbed a heavy cymbal stand, and went over the barricade like a heat-seeking missile toward the sound booth. The "modern problems" of gear safety and hotel regulations didn't matter—only the noise did. Two songs in, the ballroom was a sea of flailing limbs
Negative FX would only play five shows in their entire history. They were a flash of white-hot anger that burned out almost as soon as it started, leaving behind nothing but a single self-titled album and the legend of the night they tried to fight a soundboard. Dave 'Bass' Brown from Negative FX | Echoes And Dust He stood up, grabbed a heavy cymbal stand,