The Wild Story of Hasil Adkins, America's First Punk Rocker
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Hasil Adkins (1937-2005), a wild rocker from Boone County, West Virginia, who was already a punk in the 1950's, trying to kill rock'n'roll. He blended rockabilly into his unique DIY music, founding psychobilly and leaving a lasting global influence through his eccentric performances and numerous cover versions of his songs. This is the Mental Story of Hasil Adkins.
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Hasil was a great friend and an inspiration. I miss him.
Grew up right across the road from his house in bull creek, crazy dude
Was he at least a decent mechanic?
I toured as a roadie for Hank III in Y2K. Hank was a huge fan and had HA bootleg videos he turned me on to. I felt like I knew a secret.
Hasil Adkins, Johnny Paycheck and the legendary stardust cowboy dreamteam would've been astronomical!
Hell Yeah! Kinda like John Fogarty on the hayride with Chet and Merle
Unknown Hinson
My first experience with Hasil Adkins was in a little independent horror film called "Die You Zombie Bastards". I immediately looked up all his music and fell in love with his sound and insanity
For me, it was Roadracers
You have been kicking ass and taking names, Thank you for putting out some of the best Punk documentaries online!
I’m guessing he’s the reason the Misfits song “Skulls” exists
That’s probably true and more than likely Ed Gein was the real life inspiration for both songs.
Skulls has to be a nod to hasil...if not, it's one hell of a coincidence.... especially the "rip the heads off little girls and put em on my wall" part
I miss Hasil, tragic and pointless loss when he was murdered. I went to his place once when he was scheduled to play a friend’s club in Boone and didn’t show up. The whole thing seemed surreal as he completely ignored us and just sat watching tv and chain smoking cigarettes. Needless to say that the opening act had to play the whole show.😅
Run over by a neighborhood kid in an ATV....so tragic
Hasil was my rockin' idol back in early 90's, loved so much his music that in 93' I flew from Europe to find him, as a record mentioned he was still living in Madison WA, I managed to find him and stayed at his shack for almost a week! He drove me around to many of his exes as I was the living proof he was famous in Europe!!
When not giving a F$#k about what people think and having confidence in yourself looks like. You just do you. The rest will take care of itself ❤
The glue sniffing probably helped a little...
Somehow never heard of this guy.. watching this has made me an instant fan. Definitely know what I’m going to be listening to for the next few days 😂❤
Dude was legit I remember learning about him in the 90s interesting wild man
I’m from Boone County but I only learned about Hasil when he was inducted into the WV music hall of fame. He was definitely a character.
I LOVE HASIL ADKINS!
Very good work on that video.
I agree, America’s first punk rocker. I love him.
How come we never heard of him ?
Some of stuff aint too bad
So THATS where "She said" came from...Thanks.👍
Great job on this video! I’m a huge Hasil fan and own one of his old guitars and other memorabilia. Our dog is named Hasil, too. Haha. Sadly I never saw him play live. Terrific mini documentary!
Cool video. Hasil is kinda similar to Joe Buck Yourself,but leans further into the country sound. Trevor likes to tear up Sandy Shores in his old truck while Hasil is blasting on the box.
I played a show with Joe buck yourself last year, cool guy, i brought up hasil and he was like "no shit thats my guy "
says he did a few tours with hasil a while back.
Hasil laughing on guitar sounds like Flipper
Hasil was a one of a kind
I have been fascinated with eccentrics, outlaws and rock and roll my whole life and I don't know how I never heard of these characters and bands. You have earned my subscription, thank you sir.
FANTASTIC VIDEO!
The Moonlight Cruisers do a great version of "Chicken Walk."😎👍✨
This is what the world needs now, pure absurdist excellence!! I'm leaving reality proper for the more promising weirder frontier, no looking back!
Proto Unknown Hinson
I discovered Hasil in the early 90's. He influenced many punk and psycho-billy bands like Buck Nacked and the bare bottom boys from San Fran.
my hero
very nice. thank you for this. pretty cool seeing joe coleman in this! guess im subcribing been watching the stuff you put out for a sec. always good.
Is there anything that hasn’t been done a few times before?
I was going to say that I heard the hank Williams but didn't hear the Johnny Cash, then it hit me.
The Wild West Virginian. Pretty sure Virginia is in Dixie
Props 🎉to Yugo car for using his song. Sold like 10 yugo cars 🚗 in the United States. 😂😅
Who knew that rockabilly, and psychobilly were both born at the same time. Eat yer heart out Cramps.
The cramps did. What with them covering hasil and all.
Gewd $hït mang , unsurprisingly though you failed to mention Rob Rodriguez using no mo hot dogs in his film Roadracers . And as Groucho said of Harpo : "one like that is worth three ordinary ones" .
You might check out "Who Do You Love?" the Bo Diddley song.
The Haze.
He’s the caption beefheart of country
I saw a documentar y on Hasil Adkins neighbors. Hank Williams the 3rd wrote a song about them. The Whites
Have you checked out Angry Johnny and the Killbillies?
I dunno, I've always considered Robert Johnson the original punk. Wandering around the south on foot, sleeping in doorways, getting beat up by the cops steady, playing dives for booze and food. Then theres the dark gothic rumors he encouraged, crazy abrasive stuff for the 1930's. It took music so many decades to surpass his blueprint, and I think he was on to concepts that didnt become common untill the 90's.
Hasil, the ultimate rockabilly punk granddaddy hillbilly chicken walker!
This aint no Rock N Roll show
Why does boone county produce such talent? Is because nothing is there?
Wonder if he inspired flipper?
Fuck Yeah!
Cramps!
Woody Guthrie wrote "This machine kills Fascists" on his guitar. He didn't give a fuck.
He was definitely punk back during the Great Depression.
Both nazis and communists were part of the 70s/80s punk scenes
The first punk rocker hmmmm well I guess ...but I think kick out the jams mother fuck$& and the stooges were more the influence of the start of punk...MC5 man the were so ahead of there time ....I hear more the first rockabilly punk sound definitely a hank 3 sound and my man Reverend Horton Heat with this guy ...oh let's not forget the crazy mad man GG
He reminds me of me when I was on heroin. That’s how I acted
People can say what they want about heroine, but a lot of heroine addicts have made some absolute bangers.
KILLER VID ABOUT AN ASSKICKER! Cheers, and Happy Fathers Day, to everyone everywhere.