Up Front guitarist, Jon Field has been hard at work converting piles of old VHS hardcore videos to digital format. I've been going back and forth with Jon for quite awhile and he's shown a lot of interest in contributing to DCXX. We decided to kick it off here with this recently digitized Up Front video from The Anthrax. Here's what Jon had to say:
"Roger Lambert was a madman as a singer. Calm and fairly softspoken offstage, but able to do five foot high splits onstage. He sang for Up Front from January thru September of 1989, then left to form Courage with Ari Katz. In January of 1990 we began practicing with our new drummer Tim Schmoyer while we tried out singers. After Courage broke up, Roger agreed to come back and sing for some shows up and down the east coast in the Summer of '90. We had a few singing parts in the new songs, and Roger handled those flawlessly. The clip below is from an old VHS tape I hadn't watched in years of a set from The Anthrax. I'm usually pretty critical of bands I've been in, but this put a big smile on my face. I sent it to Roger and we emailed back and forth a bit talking about that video, Up Front, and life in general. Watch and enjoy..." - Jon Field
Welcome to DOUBLE CROSS - an online fanzine dedicated to the hardcore we love... past, present, and future. The goal is classic fanzine vibe and content, with stories, interviews, photos and more - updated every day through the week. While this might be a "blog," we want it to go beyond what that term typically represents.
And while we are undoubtedly straight edge and will put the best straight edge bands at the heart of this site, in no way does that mean we won't be featuring all of of our other favorite hardcore bands here as well.
Check out the below links for more info on us, as well as what we have been putting up here since beginning construction in March '08. Get in touch if you wanna contribute or just say what's up. X X X Tim McMahon / Gordo
THANX: We would like to give thanks and credit to Ken Salerno, Tim Singer / Boiling Point, Dave Sine and all the other photographers that have graced the pages of Double Cross. We could not do this with out you, so thank you very much for your contributions.
Big thanks also to some of our regular contributors, people like Joe Nelson, Billy Rubin, Agent A, Tony Rettman, Jordan Cooper, Larry Ransom, etc. All have been huge assets to Double Cross and we greatly appreciate all your help, effort and time.
Also, we'd like to give thanks to Ed McKirdy over at Livewire Records for lending his help and support to this project.
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