RBA was my first taste of playing punk music and I instantly fell in love. During the dissolving of TBE, a punk band from Canada called Raised By Apes moved to town for the summer and brought me on as rhythm guitarist. After graduating and moving to Vegas, I jumped on guitar and helped start the band This Bitter End with Meg Vitale (Ministry of Love, vocals). I started my “music career” in high school as a singer. He was this skinny little guy with yellow hair who was into 90s grunge, The Beatles and pop-punk stuff. Things were going well, and through the magic of Myspace, we found Chris Duggan. He was a blue collar construction guy who loved Pantera. Shortly after, I got a call from Pete so we jammed a couple times-just us. I had posted an ad on Craigslist looking to start a punk band. He’s a very laid-back guy and was cool with us so we said “Why not?!” Flip brought influences outside of what Sal and I were listening to, and those influences resulted in or sound becoming grittier. Soon after, we found Flip Tomasetti, who was new in town, and also wanted to play fast, hard punk rock. When our bands were winding down, we realized that we both wanted to be in a fast, hard, tight punk band. Sal and I are both east-coast guys and have some similar influences, so it was easy for us to talk music.
We were all practicing at the same place, and would always run into one another between songs. Give ‘Em Hell started when my band Revenge and Regret broke up around the same time Sal’s band No Division called it quits. ‘Give ’em hell, kid.’ This is what happens when a few friends get together and play the music they love.” – Give ‘Em Hell (Myspace) Getting out that aggression, doing something, getting involved, expressing yourself and finding those who feel the same way you do. It’s having fun and holding on to what you believe in. This is a community and at it’s best, a family.
This is more than a ‘scene’ and it’s more than whatever labels people feel the need to slap onto themselves.
What’s punk rock, what’s hardcore and what’s not. Today we’re bringing you a previously unreleased demo from punk band Give ‘Em Hell, who were active in Vegas from 2005-2009.įor more information about the band and these songs, read the oral history as told by former Give ‘Em Hell members Pete Aponte, Tony Batz, Chris Duggan, Sal Giordano and Matt King.
Welcome to Vegas Archive, a feature where we re-release music from local bands that are gone, but certainly not forgotten.
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