Craig then asked me to join his band and that would eventually become Straight Ahead. I joined and started out playing guitar for them but ended up as a vocalist. My first band was Rest in Pieces, out of Westchester County. That mixed in with all of the metal stuff that we were into we were just enjoying it all.Įverybody at that point was starting a band. The was a radio show called Noise, and that would expose us to all of the latest hardcore stuff coming out of New York, as well as out of California, all of the stuff coming out of England. Right around that time, I was mostly listening to metal, but was discovering hardcore. We ended up running into each other again in high school, Francis Lewis High School in Flushing, Queens. It was just the way we looked, we had some kind of kinship. One day, I was walking home, and in those days, it was real obvious when two people were into metal or hardcore. We met around 1982 or so, we knew each other for about four years before the band started.įirst, we were all metalheads. I lived at my grandparent's house for a few years in Jamaica, Queens, and went to school in Flushing, where I met Lou and Pete. Armand joined as our drummer after that.Īrmand Majidi: I had a strange history: I was born in Iran and lived there until I was 12 years old, then I moved to Queens after the Revolution. Mark and Dave were in the band for one show. The lineup was me, Lou, this guy named Mark McNeilly on bass and David Lam on drums. Armand was a natural musician, so it was easy to follow his lead. If you saw somebody wearing Doc Martens back in those days, you knew they were into hardcore or punk. Back then, if you were into a certain kind of music, you knew everyone that was into it because there wasn’t that many people. Pete Koller: Armand went to the same high school as us Rich was one of our neighborhood friends. Eventually, Pete and I decided that we wanted to start a real band. We would play so loud it was during the day and all the neighbors would be standing outside staring at the house. Armand and Craig would come over and we would play all these stupid songs that we made up. At the time, my parents used to go away for two weeks in the summer, so we would all be jamming in my basement. There was Rest in Pieces, Straight Ahead … the early hardcore scene. Noisey sat down with the band to discuss their long, colorful history as titans of the NYHC scene. Along with a handful of other bands, Sick Of It All helped pioneer a style of music and community that exists to this day. Throughout their career the band has only experienced two line-up changes, with Max Capshaw temporarily filling in for Majidi on drums in 1989 and Cipriano being replaced by Craig Setari in 1992. The band formed in 1986 and consisted of the Koller brothers Lou (vocals) and Pete (guitar), Rich Cipriano (bass) and Armand Majidi (drums) in Queens, NY during the New York Hardcore explosion.
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