Drive Like Jehu
Froberg and Reis trading guitar salvos like two guys trying to out-shred each other in a burning building. Melodic and absolutely savage at the same time. Yank Crime is the record that defines San Diego post-hardcore and if you disagree you haven't heard it yet. Reis was also doing Rocket from the Crypt at the same time because apparently one incredible band wasn't enough. Two albums and they still cast a shadow over everything.
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Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, and the visual artist whose hand-drawn illustrations defined what San Diego punk LOOKED like. Guitar and vocals that rip your face off. The total package.
Drive Like Jehu, Rocket from the Crypt, Swami Records founder. The busiest man in San Diego punk. Plays guitar in bands that make your ears bleed and runs a label for bands that make other people's ears bleed. Legend.
Drive Like Jehu's bassist, providing the rumbling foundation under Froberg and Reis's twin-guitar assault. That rhythm section was a freight train and Kennedy was laying the tracks. San Diego hardcore at its most ferocious.
Drive Like Jehu's drummer who went on to become one of the most in-demand producers of the late 90s and 2000s. Produced Jimmy Eat World's Clarity and Bleed American, among many others. Went from pummeling drums in a hardcore band to shaping the sound of a generation. What a career arc.
