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HARLEY FLANAGAN

Cro-Mags Founder, Bassist/Vocalist & NYHC Crossover Pioneer • Lower East Side, NYC • Since 1978

Playing CBGB at age 11 as drummer of NYC punk band The Stimulators before founding Cro-Mags in 1981 and composing all the music for the 1982 demos and 'The Age of Quarrel' (1986). A Renzo Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, Harley's thunderous Rickenbacker/P-Bass attack defined NYHC crossover.

“I wrote those 'Age of Quarrel' riffs living in squats on the Lower East Side when survival wasn't a metaphor—it was every single day.”