Monday, August 04, 2008

SSD Reunion?

Earlier today I was finishing up a review for the new Trash Talk album that will be published soon for Lifers Zine and I ran across a photo/flyer on their blog which had them playing a show with the great classic hardcore band SSD in Europe and was a little dumbfounded by the information, here is the flyer: SSD Reunion Show Flyer. Finally after doing a little research it looks like SSD is supossibly doing a reuinon tour in europe of sort but for some fucked reason it's just singer David Spring strange attempt to market and tell people that it's an actually SSD reunion show when none of the members of SSD are in the band.

It looks like everyone besides David seem to be pissed off about this fake reunion of sorts which is totally understandable. I would be pretty pissed to about it when one pervious band member coming out of left field trying to do a reunion show without the support or decensy to ask the past members. It's bad enough a lot of old bands are getting back together for the wrong reasons but this is just plain stupid and slightly pisses me off and definitely Mr. Al Baire guitar player of SSD, the last person I would want to piss off.

Taken from SSD Myspace Page:



There is absolutely no truth to any speculation that SSD will be performing this summer in Europe or anytime in the foreseeable future. The fact is original vocalist David Spring "Springa" is assembling a band of hired guns to tour and rip off the public playing under the name SSD. Due to his selfish actions David Spring has officially been terminated from ALL association with the band SSD. His attempt to recreate SSD in 2008 is totally unacceptable and goes against everything the band stood for. I hope the public will not attend these shows despite the curiosity factor. It's not the REAL SSD and you'll be disappointed. It's a scam, rip-off and parody. It shouldn't surprise anybody that Springa would break ranks from the band because he was a mere passenger on a bus that gave him the best ride of his life and he can't figure out how to get back on the bus. Unfortunately his choice was the wrong choice which shouldn't surprise anybody who knows him.
There is no I in team but there is an I in INTEGRITY.

The MAD Promotion team is ripping off people by promoting a copy cat sideshow parody of a classic American Hardcore Band.
It's a shame that you would allow such a joke band to perform at your music festival.
If you think it's dope to promote fake bands then I guess I thought more about the musical integrity of your festival
Once again. This will be zero chance that you will ever get then REAL SSD or any other friends of mine who are REAL.

thanks

Alan Barile
Leader SSD


There is also a longer explination from Alan on Going Through Blog: Alan Bariles full statment


1 comment:

Paul Chenault said...

What a douche!

They need to do a real SSD reunion, but how intense would they still be?