Fuck! Jason was one of my best friends up in Bend, Oregon. We had so much fun together! I surprised him & went to his concert in Berkeley & he stopped the fucking show & said, "Deanne, What the fuck are you doing here?" I was the only chick in the mosh pit. I loved him so much!!! I miss you forever Jason!! Your whole band was one of the best fucking bands in history!!!
They got me through the Persian Gulf War ('89-91?)- later I was living in S.F. skating, bombing hills- and they moved up there. I met them backstage and told the band the story. Joey then gave me a fat black roll of duct tape- so I was their 'honorary roadie' for all S.F. shows. Thanks for this upload and thank you guys- epic years of tearing up S.F. Watching 1/4/2025 from (currently) Buenos Aires, AR., *A.
He's like 16yrs old here too! I remember reading a million years ago in maximum R&R that Bomber wrote the Bass , drums and helped with some guitar parts! I hear to much about gg skin (I met that piece of shit a few times btw) and sid vicious/Darby crash none had any talent! BOMBER & JASON (rip)and Joey blew them off stage & outta the venue!!!!
@@pascalvieira9870 Darby crash? Were talking rkl ... the germs were the shit. But the germs don't hold a candle to RKL lol. Pat and Lorna couldn't play their instruments for shit. Belinda carlise was th original drummer before Don, again, she couldn't play shit lol. If u listen to the 1st cut of forming, it's sloppy asssss fuuuuuuk... the 1st bad I really fell in love with was the germs.... but again, rkl blows the germs out the water. If I had to compare a 1st wave hard-core band to RKL, I'd say FEAR was the closest. Lee an his kid brother on drums, they were real musicians. Spit Stix was a jazz drummer like bomer was.
Always loved Jason's very distinct one-of-a-kind vocals. When I was a teen in the 80s and first bought the Keep Laughing record. To me his vocals matched how I thought their little cartoon rich kid mascot would sound like singing.
@@AC-eu6gn i dont have any complains about the sound. Its suppose to be rough. Its the sound of a band struggling to survive with money to keep on playing. What is IT to complain about? I think its sounds fucking amazing to be a underground band in 87. You can hear every detail.
Oh shit. I just realized this is Barry from RKL!! Dude, I've worshipped RKL since around '84. Your music was SO fucking killer and original. Musicianship is omnipotent. The way you'd drop in riffs from Mountain, or play KISS covers. Shit that NO other band was attempting. Bomber (RIP) is a huge inspiration on my playing. You're killer rock and roll riffs and solos are brilliant and Dan Sites art is amazing. I was in Amsterdam in '92 and BEGGED the folks at the Milkweg for one of those dope tour posters. The lyrics really meant something. Especially if you were in the scene at the time. Much respect to you. RIP Jason
Too many dead kids in this video. What a band they were in their prime. Maybe the best rock band ever. For sure the best live band ever. Thank God I was lucky enough to see them.
You realize throughout the video that bomber the drummer of the band is holding his drumsticks upside down. That’s just fucking awesome and heavy as fuck.
I went to the states im 88 from europe to catch em and be a rkl head but they were in europe touring,,, came back, they were in the us, went in the us, they toured europe.. will start a rkl church in a couple mounths
I wonder if Chris Rest still has that SG Jr..? It is freaking sweet. I stayed away from wraptails for 30 years...but now that I have a LP Jr, I love it. The intonation is good enough (almost as good as my standards) and there is nothing to obcess over and fuss with. Essentially a plug and play guitar.
Obrigado por postar essa relíquia Barry! Um abraço de um fãn de RKL aqui do Brasil. Thanks for posting this relic Barry! A hug from an RKL fan here from Brazil.
Fuck yeah! I loved RKL back in the day and i love the RKL today! Total ass kickin shreddin music to my ears! R.i.P. bomber jason and i think others? You will always live through your music and in the hearts and souls of those of us who know whats good! I got an RKL scab on my brain and it wont go away!
@@patswayze7359hardcore is a form of punk and if you listen to a lot of skate punk bands they're a lot heavier than their punk, pop punk contemporaries. Not your standard skate punk vocals.
@@patswayze7359none of your labeling matters. Only Aristotle wants everything to be classified and separated and identified nice and neatly, put away in it's appropriate category. All of rock n roll is a big inbred fukfest
@@refluxcatalyst7190ya they started with all the other 80s hardcore punk bands, that’s what they were referred to as, you can call them hardcore punk or just punk
punk rock iron maiden. they took the british new wave and mixed it with Nardcore and came up with the absolute benchmark for punk bands moving forward. without RKL, there is no Lagwagon, NOFX, A Wilhelm Scream, PEARS, or Cigar.
Mystic years to RnR Nightmare sounds like a different band. They could really play here. I remember listening to this in high school and thinking these guys are a faster and better version of bs "arena rock ". They definitely had the chops, especially the rhythm section which defined many punk bands
Just found out about this band. I've never seen such a technically adept punk band, and I love it. Wish I had found out about them sooner, but I was way too young to have seen them anyway
And RKL were the tightest of the tight. Unfortunately the show I caught in 95 or so will have to be the last in this life, too bad that we only get one.
Ugghhhhh. I want to love these guys so much. Instrumentally, they were so far ahead of any other punk band of that time and so effin talented. They sound so good. Then that singer who you know one day said to himself, “How do you sound angry and punk?” And manufactured this lame screechy-scream-sing voice that is so bad. It’s like seeing the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen in your life from behind and you’re certain she’s an angel and she turns around and her face is like AAAAHHHHHHH!!! You want so much to give that girl the love she probably deserves but instead it’s “Jenny, see I don’t want you around.” I hope Fat Mike retired just so he can take over vocals of the RKL resurgence and make their band sound normal when it opens its mouth. Such absolute instrumental talent. Voice, not. At. All.
I've never heard Leon say more than 3 sentences at any given time . That's from ALL the footage of RKL and Lag. Who gives a shit though ! He's one of the most underrated punk guitarist ever. Chris Rest and Walter Lure are totally underrated .
If you're talking about Chris Rest (not talking), you sure haven't seen enough RKL or Lagwagon interviews. There's an interview with Chris, Jesse and Dave around 2009-2010.
I got Leon talking at a show. We made him and Bomer play "why" with us and after Chris gave me the compliment of a lifetime by telling me "i could never play as fast as you. Your speed picking sounds like a fucking helicopter."
Jansen Dwan 31+ years of touring. But, I did see some interview recently where he said he’s never felt better, after getting healthy, and losing the weight he had goin’ on. Lagwagon IMO has never sounded better. Tight n crispy as ever! Cheers! 🤘🏻
With all the punk and music documentaries that have been made over the last 10 years or so RKL would by far be the most interesting, of them all. As long as that guy that did the FAT WRECK one has nothing to do with it. What turd. Too much hype ! I wanted it to be amazing. It was okay at best.
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If anyone ever wondered why NOFX sounds the way they do - it's because of this band.
Might also explain that headless bass Mike had.
IIRC, Fat Mike said without RKL there still would have been a NOFX but they would have totally sucked
RKL and Bad Religion
Weird because nofx formed in 1983 and rkl in 1988
@@starwarssatan5588 RKL formed in 1982 and have several albums, EPs and full tours prior to 1988
Fuck! Jason was one of my best friends up in Bend, Oregon. We had so much fun together! I surprised him & went to his concert in Berkeley & he stopped the fucking show & said, "Deanne, What the fuck are you doing here?" I was the only chick in the mosh pit. I loved him so much!!! I miss you forever Jason!! Your whole band was one of the best fucking bands in history!!!
The Berkeley show was at a place called the Berkeley Square on University. My friends band Dartboard opened it was illmatic
RIP Jason and Bomer. Saw them over here in Europe and was quite irritated seeing his son aside the stage...
RKL were one of the best👍
wow
I bet he was a beautiful soul wot a great story peace and love you lloydy
The drumming alone in this is one of the most impressive things on the internet
Bomber was a madman.
Not to mention, they were all probably wasted while doing this, which makes it even more impressive.
The whole rhythm section is totally insane... never saw and listened to something like this before or afterwards.
agree.
Not to mention they were all barely 20 years old, I think the bassist is only 17 here and he is incredible.
I'm 48 and somehow never heard of rkl until today. These guys are the Rush of punk 😮
The rush of punk
Great compression
Probably the most talented punk band ever.
The story of Bomer recording with a broken hand is the most legendary Punk Rock thing I have ever heard.
They got me through the Persian Gulf War ('89-91?)- later I was living in S.F. skating, bombing hills- and they moved up there. I met them backstage and told the band the story. Joey then gave me a fat black roll of duct tape- so I was their 'honorary roadie' for all S.F. shows. Thanks for this upload and thank you guys- epic years of tearing up S.F. Watching 1/4/2025 from (currently) Buenos Aires, AR., *A.
Joe Raposo is such a badass on the bass.
He's like 16yrs old here too! I remember reading a million years ago in maximum R&R that Bomber wrote the Bass , drums and helped with some guitar parts! I hear to much about gg skin (I met that piece of shit a few times btw) and sid vicious/Darby crash none had any talent! BOMBER & JASON (rip)and Joey blew them off stage & outta the venue!!!!
@@CZECHMATE650 couldn't agree with you more... 2 of the greatest to ever do it.
Darby was a genius dont agree
@@pascalvieira9870 Darby crash? Were talking rkl ... the germs were the shit. But the germs don't hold a candle to RKL lol. Pat and Lorna couldn't play their instruments for shit. Belinda carlise was th original drummer before Don, again, she couldn't play shit lol. If u listen to the 1st cut of forming, it's sloppy asssss fuuuuuuk... the 1st bad I really fell in love with was the germs.... but again, rkl blows the germs out the water.
If I had to compare a 1st wave hard-core band to RKL, I'd say FEAR was the closest. Lee an his kid brother on drums, they were real musicians. Spit Stix was a jazz drummer like bomer was.
@@pascalvieira9870 No he was not. Not even remotely in the same conversation as the RKL guys,
while watching this, i must have tried to turn the volume up over a 100 dozen times
ice la honk dude! Same here! 😂
at the fucking least
Yeah I think RUclips has an output level cap or something
Shows u how good they were . Got us pressing out of our volume buttons lol
Knowing that folks in these comments love R.K.L., as much as we do, restores my faith in society. ¡R.K.L. POR VIDA! FLY RKL
Total genius !!!!!!!!! Highly underrated band 🙏 Rest In Peace Derrick, Jason & Richard ☮️💔😞💔☮️
Bomer, omfg what a drummer he was
One of the best i've ever heard
Holayy can that guy drum
He wasn't human
The guys an animal
Rkl was an awesome discovery for me, a 40 year old music nerd.
Happy you found them!
45 and finally listened to RKL for the first time. Its like i was saving them for when i desperately needed something fresh
Always loved Jason's very distinct one-of-a-kind vocals. When I was a teen in the 80s and first bought the Keep Laughing record. To me his vocals matched how I thought their little cartoon rich kid mascot would sound like singing.
Paul Osicne HAHAHAHAHA !!!! FUCK YEAH !!!!! 🙏❤️🤣❤️🙏
Love seeing Raposo goin crazy lol Bomer was so good man. 3 of the best drummers ever Raun, Plourde. All so good.
Absolutely the BEST hardcore band!! Hands down!! Simply KILLER!!! So glad I saw them back in the day!
RKL still so fkn great., their Rock N Roll Nightmare is doubtless the best album ever pressed to vinyl
if the recording was better
@@AC-eu6gn i dont have any complains about the sound. Its suppose to be rough. Its the sound of a band struggling to survive with money to keep on playing. What is IT to complain about? I think its sounds fucking amazing to be a underground band in 87. You can hear every detail.
Personally I love keep laughing
MRR sent me this album to review for my punk fanzine at the time. RARN is still one of the great 80"s hardcore punk records 👍
@@AC-eu6gn fuck the recording...listen to the chops
Oh shit. I just realized this is Barry from RKL!!
Dude, I've worshipped RKL since around '84. Your music was SO fucking killer and original. Musicianship is omnipotent. The way you'd drop in riffs from Mountain, or play KISS covers. Shit that NO other band was attempting. Bomber (RIP) is a huge inspiration on my playing. You're killer rock and roll riffs and solos are brilliant and Dan Sites art is amazing. I was in Amsterdam in '92 and BEGGED the folks at the Milkweg for one of those dope tour posters. The lyrics really meant something. Especially if you were in the scene at the time. Much respect to you. RIP Jason
Too many dead kids in this video. What a band they were in their prime. Maybe the best rock band ever. For sure the best live band ever. Thank God I was lucky enough to see them.
Great kids with a great band. I love the bassman.
I still own the comic book that came with Rock N Roll Nightmare. Classic!!!!
Me too!
Still have both. The vinyl & the comic book.
im 53..lovin this. bomer. such an incredible vision/musician. playing bass and drums on some records
Best Band ever. For ever ever !!!
my fav band of all time , i skate hard to this shit , rip jason and bomber
F**K YEAH! Literally doesn't get any better than this !
Holy shit, so glad I found this gem! RKL!!!
Great live and on studio recordings. RKL is one of my favorite bands.
Awesome band
Favorite lineup. Barry, thank you for sharing all of the awesome videos.
If you’re wondering just how old this was - this was time when Lil’ Joe was nearly the same size as everyone else and was named just Joe.
You realize throughout the video that bomber the drummer of the band is holding his drumsticks upside down.
That’s just fucking awesome and heavy as fuck.
I went to the states im 88 from europe to catch em and be a rkl head but they were in europe touring,,, came back, they were in the us, went in the us, they toured europe.. will start a rkl church in a couple mounths
Whoever did the camera work was on point!
Fucking Wicked band! They deserved so much more!!!!! Legendary 🤪🍺😜
I wonder if Chris Rest still has that SG Jr..? It is freaking sweet. I stayed away from wraptails for 30 years...but now that I have a LP Jr, I love it. The intonation is good enough (almost as good as my standards) and there is nothing to obcess over and fuss with. Essentially a plug and play guitar.
He stated on a recent interview that he does not
Obrigado por postar essa relíquia Barry! Um abraço de um fãn de RKL aqui do Brasil.
Thanks for posting this relic Barry! A hug from an RKL fan here from Brazil.
That right there is hardcore as great as it ever was, maybe Bad Brains excepted.
Cheers for this Barry
Fuck yeah! I loved RKL back in the day and i love the RKL today! Total ass kickin shreddin music to my ears! R.i.P. bomber jason and i think others? You will always live through your music and in the hearts and souls of those of us who know whats good! I got an RKL scab on my brain and it wont go away!
One of the best to ever do it! And one of the most underrated punk bands ever!
Hands down one of the greatest hardcore bands ever
Not hardcore bro...skate punk
@@patswayze7359hardcore is a form of punk and if you listen to a lot of skate punk bands they're a lot heavier than their punk, pop punk contemporaries.
Not your standard skate punk vocals.
@@patswayze7359none of your labeling matters. Only Aristotle wants everything to be classified and separated and identified nice and neatly, put away in it's appropriate category. All of rock n roll is a big inbred fukfest
The word hardcore has taken on different meanings throughout the years, especially in certain regions of the US
national treasure...the musicianship is incredible when you really listen to it ..appreciate.
Kings of intros.. amazing
Killer boots man👍
Bad ass !!!!
RKL 4 EVER !!!!
RIP Jason ~
My all time favorite Hardcore band. Thanks SO much for posting this!!
Here here!
We're calling RKL a hardcore band? Really??
@@refluxcatalyst7190ya they started with all the other 80s hardcore punk bands, that’s what they were referred to as, you can call them hardcore punk or just punk
best thing ive ever seen. LOVED me some RKL back in the day! many a skate party
this is dope!
- just wonderful!!!!! thanx a lot Barry
I love that they're not in punk uniforms either - they just shred and seem to look like their own characters
Thanks Barry. Loved the lineup you were apart of. Such a big fan.
What a powerhouse this band was.... Only the singer seems on valium (or has the hangover of his life).
no words ,great
punk rock iron maiden. they took the british new wave and mixed it with Nardcore and came up with the absolute benchmark for punk bands moving forward. without RKL, there is no Lagwagon, NOFX, A Wilhelm Scream, PEARS, or Cigar.
Cigar and Satanic Surfers have a huge rkl influence, love both of those bands
Soooo much energy, i fuckin love it!
Such an amazing band.
The Energy is even beyond Punk ❤
So underrated
Thanks Berry !
I fucking love you guys.
Mystic years to RnR Nightmare sounds like a different band. They could really play here. I remember listening to this in high school and thinking these guys are a faster and better version of bs "arena rock ". They definitely had the chops, especially the rhythm section which defined many punk bands
Thanks for this
Great Band!!!
They have many leather-bound books.
"Don't lag, don't forget, find a way" lol @ 52:40
What a drummer
Bad ass!
goosebumps, so awesome!
Holy shit this is insanely good! Thanks for the upload
Awesome musicians! Bass and drummer are top of the notch. Big fan from Brazil (shit hole!)
Way ahead of their time
RKL Rules
Just found out about this band. I've never seen such a technically adept punk band, and I love it. Wish I had found out about them sooner, but I was way too young to have seen them anyway
Check out Lagwagon if you haven’t yet. Most of the RKL guys ended up there. Even Joey, the frontman, was originally supposed to be in RKL early on.
@@punkgrl325 just put on Trashed, this is great!
Not knocking RKL, but checkout NomeansNo
@@stevenmitchell2846 ok!
I member thse guys, I gots one on vinyl.
WOW FUCKING AWESOME !!! If you have any Slang Show pls upload it.
You are the man!!
And RKL were the tightest of the tight. Unfortunately the show I caught in 95 or so will have to be the last in this life, too bad that we only get one.
RKL has two C. Thomas Howell look-a-likes in it.
Ugghhhhh. I want to love these guys so much. Instrumentally, they were so far ahead of any other punk band of that time and so effin talented. They sound so good. Then that singer who you know one day said to himself, “How do you sound angry and punk?” And manufactured this lame screechy-scream-sing voice that is so bad. It’s like seeing the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen in your life from behind and you’re certain she’s an angel and she turns around and her face is like AAAAHHHHHHH!!! You want so much to give that girl the love she probably deserves but instead it’s “Jenny, see I don’t want you around.” I hope Fat Mike retired just so he can take over vocals of the RKL resurgence and make their band sound normal when it opens its mouth. Such absolute instrumental talent. Voice, not. At. All.
Una joya...el eslavon perdido
Best band ever
The punk rock Venom!
The 2nd bassist they had was great!
I've never heard Leon say more than 3 sentences at any given time . That's from ALL the footage of RKL and Lag. Who gives a shit though ! He's one of the most underrated punk guitarist ever. Chris Rest and Walter Lure are totally underrated .
wendy fenech who's Leon?
i think he is talking about christ rest he is also named chris the leon rest perdon si mi ingles esta incorrecto
If you're talking about Chris Rest (not talking), you sure haven't seen enough RKL or Lagwagon interviews. There's an interview with Chris, Jesse and Dave around 2009-2010.
I got Leon talking at a show. We made him and Bomer play "why" with us and after Chris gave me the compliment of a lifetime by telling me "i could never play as fast as you. Your speed picking sounds like a fucking helicopter."
He's actually super friendly and chill. Smoked a bowl with him and Flip at a Lagwagon show, they're all great dudes.
LOVE RKL...
…Q: Who is the 1988 RKL line-up here?
Jason Sears: Vocals
Dave Raun: Drums
Chris Rest: Guitar 1
Joe Raposo: Bass
Guitar 2: ?
@52:11 ..love this interaction....awesome music.
Thank you for all the RKL, gd they are just kids in this video.
I saw Lagwagon the weekend before last and Rest looks so haggard. Raposo looked like he's holding up pretty well.
Jansen Dwan 31+ years of touring. But, I did see some interview recently where he said he’s never felt better, after getting healthy, and losing the weight he had goin’ on. Lagwagon IMO has never sounded better. Tight n crispy as ever! Cheers! 🤘🏻
playing that dorky zztop bass is offset by his wicked chops!
Dorky? My buddy from the Beefy Burrito fanzine played a bass similar to this lol... ruclips.net/video/OB92W6Tgc2E/видео.html
Dont be a girlie mr furley! Zz top/zz bottom whats it matter? Unfuck yourself
That's a steinberger bass. In the 80s it was major dollars and it sounds absolutely amazing!!! Sometimes it's best to think before you speak
Old punks are so fuckin’ coooolllll!!!! 🫡
Still so sick
With all the punk and music documentaries that have been made over the last 10 years or so RKL would by far be the most interesting, of them all. As long as that guy that did the FAT WRECK one has nothing to do with it. What turd. Too much hype ! I wanted it to be amazing. It was okay at best.
@Coach Sahara Tennis he's talking about Fat Mike..
Bomer...was..a...god
That Fat Mike guy is a poset
They do have an hour long movie called Still Flailing after all these beers . Quite amazing
Ratos de Porão me trouxe aqui
RKL lifer.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
RKL is probably one of the top 5 best punk bands out there.
Theres no "probably" about it. They are top 3. They could give Bad Brains a run and id still put my money on RKL.
Hi Barry!!!! I sent you a Facebook add!!!. Im mexican biggest rkl fan!
The sound is awesone but melodic line on voice is bleah
The best
Formidables
That the singer from dropkick 😂
Killen itso hard