It’s not often that you receive an e-mail from one of your musical heroes. Yesterday, we did. Here is Darryl Jennifer of the legendary Bad Brains, in his own words, responding to my post from the other day.

“I read your review of our first show at CBGB’s , please understand that we have struggled to stay progressive throughout our careers,.. progressive,inventive musicians,not entertainers, but Punk. and yes there is a fine line between a genius and a mad man,my old good friend enjoys walking that line. there is a certain spirit and “way” that is Punk Rock,remember we are a Punk Rock band, HR is 52yrs old, can you blame him creating such a bazaar character for himself , don’t be selfish, let the arts and artist live, why complain about seeing us for $40 ,..we bled for this music,the scene …the right to musical freedom and expression regardless of race,creed ……… literally - can’t we catch 1 pay day?

Did you think that HR was going to come on stage like it was 1982?

we apologize about the head set mic,the guy was only trying to do something different with his presence and stage show, don’t grudge us for not wanting to be a “juke box” we have a whole new album and we decided to play our old shit in respects to our fans. Tuesday and Wed. shows went well and HR abandoned his quest to be himself and “juked boxed” a little for the fans …..sorry you missed it. none of us will never know what to expect when the Brains are set to perform, such is the nature of the music and scene that it is born of - Now come on down to the LIONS DEN on Nov.2nd and catch BLAKVOVA. thanks for your comments. DJ “

I just want to say that I appreciate DJ reaching out and commenting on the blog. I look forward to (and you should to) an interview with him discussing everything I wrote, along with a recap of the three-night stand and the future of the Bad Brains.

Stay tuned as always.

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