Some artists deal with the subject of mortality in delicate, reflective brushstrokes. OFF! bandleader Keith Morris confronts it roughly the same way a hungry pit bull meets a T-bone steak—with fang-gnashing ferocity. To wit: multiple compressed assaults from the band’s new sophomore salvo, Wasted Years (Vice). Because, at 58, the Circle Jerks/Black Flag vet (who still maintains a spin-off combo dubbed Flag) has faced his own frailties, overcome most of them, and simply accepted—then soldiered on—with the rest. Morris, guitarist Dimitri Coats, bassist Steven Shane McDonald and drummer Mario Rubalcaba will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on them.
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Coats: Dez Cadena turned me on to this song one night when we roomed together in a particularly shitty Baltimore hotel during a Flag tour. So shitty, in fact, that the whole place was vacant except for our crew. One of those situations you find the comedy in and make the most of. Since we had the whole building to ourselves, we opened up the doors to all the rooms and blasted what some people refer to as the poor man’s Deep Purple. Uriah Heep‘s “All My Life” has a big, fun, uplifting chorus that really stuck out that night, mainly because Dez air-performed it so well.
