BAD BRAINS Back In Business With Album, Shows

November 3, 2006

Greg Prato of Billboard.com reports that on-again/off-again rock act BAD BRAINS appears to be on once more. After being asked to kick off the final week of shows at CBGB with a trio of sold-out performances, the original BAD BRAINS line-up of singer H.R., guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer and drummer Earl Hudson has been jumpstarted.

"It was tremendous," Dr. Know tells Billboard.com of the performances. "We hadn't played in that place in a long, long time. Did you see the DVD [the recently released 'Live at CBGB's 1982']? That sh*t was like that [laughs]! There was so much friends and family — it was a bit much, actually. It was really an honor and a privilege to have so many good friends and see them all. We were back together for a week; we hadn't been together for a long time."

Tying in with the recent flurry of activity is a long-in-the-works, as-yet-untitled studio album produced by the BEASTIE BOYS' Adam Yauch. The set should see the light of day next spring. "The lawyers are finishing up the last little tidbits of it," Dr. Know says.

"There's a lot of dubs and there's some old school-meets-new school BRAINS," he continues. "Not moderate tempo, but fast tempo. Yauch said, 'Man, I want y'all to do some old school-type sh*t,' so we did it like that."

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