Hardcore History: John Joseph of the Cro-Mags
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- čas přidán 5. 05. 2013
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Author, community activist, and Cro-Mags frontman John Joseph recounts his personal journey growing up punk on the streets of 1970s New York City and how he came to find inner peace.
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Awesome. I had the pleasure of meeting this man. He gave me a copy of the book in the video:
"The Perfection of Yoga" by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda. He's an amazing man, and is so welcoming. He refused to shake my hand until I hugged him. He's the reason why I make a lot of the choices I do. He's what a real legend is.
When Cromags toured Australia a while back now, I got to meet him a few times, He gave me his auto biopgraphy, I think the same book you speak of and like a care package almost of random Krishna, diet, spiritual stuff. Signed them all, he was great.
me?
"so welcoming" LMFAO, this guy is the biggest prick I've ever met in my life. I wish Harley had ventilated him when he had the chance a few years back
Met John at an event in Canada in 2019, gave me his book signed it and came and sat with me in the resturaunt for dinner, as I was on my own, told us all stories about the old days in NYC later that night.Yup he is the real deal!
Has anyone noticed that in every single hardcore / punk / trash documentary you watch, there is always a Misfits and Bad Brains reference? Every single one! Hell, I bet if you watch a documentary about Oasis, there will be a Misfits/Bad Brains reference! How fucking influential were these bands, its crazy!
the cro-mags are awesome. Stop hating on someone's lifestyle the music rocks. That's what matters. That's a good thing he opposes meat. If you're a good human being and enjoy your life that's what matters. Straight edge or not. I'm not straight edge guy either. Yet I respect what he says if he doesn't push his ideas on me.
Harley's band.
Amazing. Just saw the Cro mags perform in south Texas!!! Corpus Christi to be exact. Well needless to say it was one of the best show I've been too! The energy is off the scale and I love how he spreads the message of being brothers and uniting. Seekers of truth!!!
John Joseph, you sir are a gentleman and a scholar.
and a mouthbreather and liar to boot.
Just discovered this legend. This dude is hardcore with everything. Really inspiring individual.
Met John in DC like 6 years ago he said I had beautiful eyes and I smiled the whole back on the blue line.
"... and not having daydeams about the shit that I wanna do!" What a great guy and an inspiration.
I hope I look like that when I'm 50.
Hunter Woodward i am about to turn 50 two & a half months. Im in decent shape myself.
It takes lots of hard work
go Vegan!
Watch Forks Over Knives (it's on his hoodie in the video). That's what saved the dude.
You have shitty standards.
I don´t know why, but just found this video now. 2018. Five years have passed. Cro-Mags is one of my favourites hardcore bands of all time. I´m from Brazil and I have listened to them and Sick of it all for a long time. I´m not really into their philosophy, but musically speaking their great.
enjoyed watching this a lot. Thank you
Mr. Bloodclot! what an inspiration you have been to the punk world.!
cheers brother you look great!
Love his HR impression. "YES RASTAFARIII!!!"
forks over knives hoodie.... want!
Simply AWESOME!!!!!!!
Who would have known our.generation man.. taking care of people in N Y
i am lost for words....
Saw them at fenders ball room back in the day
Thank you for helping others!!!!!!!!
Changing my lifestyle very inspired
Best thing I've seen on noisey
Nice. Just found him on an episode of Healthy Living with Chef AJ at foodytv. Love his story.
great video and interview and by the way I was at the show filmed in this video
More Hardcore History please
more hardcore history please!!!!
saw these dudes live a few years back at Churchills pub in miami.. can't remember if Harley was there but it was a hell of a show... specially when they played life of my own
this guy is a real punk rocker
My dumb ass on stage at 10:19 !! great show as usual
Hell yeah Noisey, more hardcore please
Do more episodes like this!!
Thank you for such a great upload. Grew up listening, breathing, living NYHC - I really appreciate seeing this footage 👏👏👏
I respect John Joseph. My wife has a phD in molecular biology and teaches at a university in upstate NY, and we both approach life from a scientific perspective. She's adopted science as a religion, and I remain an absolute atheist with skepticism of all faith and technology as fallable. I don't personally follow a dietary plan aside from what nutrition my body needs and asks for, but I deeply respect someone with a noble cause larger than themselves that abstains from vices. I don't believe in an afterlife or reincarnation, but I do believe in the human obligation as an alpha species to provide stewardship for a delicate planet.
Keep em coming...
I spoke to John and Joe H/C, after a show in Philly at the Church, and we hypothesized that I wasn’t just the oldest man in the pit, but the only grandfather as physically interactive with the energy output, (& all the proper respect and etiquette) and who can take more than I dish out! Lol plus work as a barricade and pit security team member at the most awesome venue ever, on 1402 N.9th St. in Reading, PA, “Reverb! It’s about the music!”
I eat meat, and I’m still an old healthy galoot, but John is correct, meat or not, its about what you do and don’t ingest! I abstain from processed garbage and trans fatty acids, keep a well balanced and nutritionally deliberate agenda when you shop, and there will be no reason to “watch your diet” your diet will watch you!
Love the clockwork orange intro music. Also great band.
Interesting fact, Arthur Googey is a high school principal now
Wow!!!! Arthur Googy?? That's awesome.. We need more people like JJ.
Great band, I saw these guys back in the 80's.
You fucking kick ass buddy!!! Keep it up John Joseph!!! Hope to meet you someday! :)
Outstanding
When I started watching this video I assumed CMs had a new younger singer. You're amazing! Im 48 and definitely found inspiration in your story. Thanks for being true and you. -n8
No amount of spirituality and veganism can stop this mans New York macho tough guy posturing.
holy shit clayton patterson! way to go noisey
What a great guy! Wonderful he got his life together!
What a great musician and stellar human being. John Joseph is a saint.
great musician? can you expand on this please?
sympatric exactly, wrote no Cro-Mags material, his vocals needed to be re-recorded and he was shown how the songs needed to be done, and he plays no instrument 😳 uh....
Re-recorded by who? Himself? I'm not doubting you, just wondering what the story is behind your accusations.
not true, read his book. Harley stole his shit.
Harley wrote 90% of the lyrics and wrote the music with Parris Mayhew for AOQ. JJ wasn't the original singer in 1981 either it was John Berry and then Eric Casanova took over for a bit and that's when most of the songs on AOQ were written. The songs JJ and the "Cro-Mags" play nowadays are all Harley and Parris Mayhew's songs. JJ wrote some lyrics but not much. It's just facts man
That was great.
Love the Sea Shepard shirt (I support!) And the Forks Over Knives hoodie! Up the VEGAN PUNX!!! Always loved the Cro-Mags! And now I know why
I remember seeing the cro mags at 14 years old and still listen to fhem at 49
10:02 for the chick creepy crawlin' in the pit!
no karate in the pit. she looks absolutely useless.
@Captain Maxwell i hope you don't breed
@Captain Maxwell I have a sense of humor, just not one for retarded girls like 10:02
@Captain Maxwell good for you, sir!👍😁
Saw the original cro-mags at lamour in Brooklyn around 1986. He’d the best front man ever
YES.
awesome
Love ya John alwaya have allways will.
What about that live footage of the Brains? Could you please upload the entire stuff? Looks like some pro stuff.
last song is hard times by the cro-mags
We got to know!
yo wtf when i was at Rockefeller center last year this dude approached me and said he was gathering money for homeless people. I gave him like 10 box and got one of those NYC beanies however some time after that situation it struck me maybe that guy just tried to scam me?
Seeing this makes me think otherwise
Hey, if you got a beanie out of it, it's not really a scam. But I feel you.
How'd you get scammed if you got a beanie playboy?
Giving Back - True Hardcore
What a dude!!!!!!
He does look good for 50
Dude is still kickin it !!!!! I remember seeing them many many moons ago playing with Agnostic Front, you needed your fucking A game to even think of staying up close to stage, crazy ass NYHC kids, cherish those memories, glad to see he’s still going 💪 strong, me, well I ain’t gonna lie I’m a 52 year old round belly meat eating mutha fucka, but still love the music 🎸☠️. LONG LIVE NYHC
Keep charging !!!! x
do more things like sthis noisey
hardtimes
ive met these guys in hamburg at the chrismas in europe 87 tour. really nice guys. the first they asked me if i have some weed. i had. so we went backstage and smoked and talked a bit. My friend became a hare krishna and vegan after that and still is. he had a nice live and lives in india now i became a heroin addict after that and had a shitty life I live mostly in jail now. so there is something true in that.
Felix Schmiedecke how u doing lately? Hope ur alright.
Prabhupad was racist, look it up
JJ is my hero!!!!!!!!!!!
Age of Quarrel is one of the best hardcore albums ever made. With such potential to make great music it is a shame what happened with the band. Unfortunately i was a little too young to see the them play together. I started going to shows when i was 13 in the mid 90's and missed out on a lot of great bands. I'm happy that i still go to shows sometimes these days and get to see some great old bands play still but it does not look like i will ever get to see the original Cro-Mags line up on stage together.
Yea Alpha Omega is a trash album in my opinion but age of quarrel is so damn good it's legendary. Also I don't know if you ever listened to Both Worlds but that is another band that John was in after the Cro-Mags.
My kind of Sponcer.!
legends
I saw cro-mags yesterday, they opened up for Hatebreed in Philadelphia
Fn awesome. Going to 171 ave a to take a pic Sunday. Fn a
Hero!!
50 years old, that's ridiculous
john lays it out 8:20 strive for all, believe in yourself and pursue your passions in life, weather it's making music or whatever you dig. what life's about...
John Joseph is a personal hero of mine 😂 this absolute MAD-LAD
He's now 60 and lives with his mom in a retirement community lol
Clayton Patterson's beard says to me: "Bad Life Decision", and its backed up by his 24k grill
He looks ridiculous lol. To each their own though
I watched this as well as the episode with Harley. Also I do follow Parris Mayhew through Facebook. All three of them appear to be very reasonable and nice guys. Makes you wonder why they couldn't get along.
You follow Parris and you don't know? I believe his version of events over anyone... !
czcams.com/video/_BLfkIQ5z7o/video.html
Truth. There is a part 2 as well.
ya
God bless
how many original members on stage that wrote the music and the lyrics?
JJs book is a great read, I'm not a massive fan but age of quarrel is fuckin class......so is life of dreams by crumbsuckers...
They some and better now than 20 years ago!
I don't give a shit about his spiritual beliefs or personal politics, Cro-Mags are legends.
hope I look like that when I'm 50.
"Meat is for Pussies" must be the most important book I've ever read in my life
at 00:11 I thought the guy on bass was going to play Jeremy by Pearl Jam lol...
JJ kicks ass
MOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!1
john joseph for president!
Long Live Punk
Fuckin love the CRO-MAGS !!!
Who can't the Cromags still gig in smaller venues (watching the start of this video)? oh and what's the song played at the end of the video?
Philip Cavanagh
"Hard Times", It's on Age of Quarrel.
+ineedarealjob yep!
I would love riding but dont have the money to get one. I dont know about swim.lol i do the tri.
what is the name of the some that start at 9:16 ?
Hard Times
PMA
best book ever you and can't fight IET IT BE stop
9:00 thats danny schuler right there.. the brooklyn equivalent to mackie :p
the best there ever was
I feel like a steak and a spliff after watching this . .. but I do dig his energy and cro mags kill it 🔥🔥
careful, don't cut yourself on that edge :p
Milena Nes ???
so when are you going come up with some new material?
6:54 the coat on the left looks like real fur
John Joseph you are the fuckin man 💪
Time space an realitys messig to the WORLDS..........................A.....x
where is Jeff ?