Headstrong

The story about this band starts in early 80's when Martin Ruane (from Lions pride) & Mike Aiden befriended each other after the skinhead riots at San Diego Street Music Festival. They started a 2-piece cover band by the name of American Pride, playing mostly for beer and doing old 4-skins covers. They later picked up Martin Doubling on drums & vocals and Bob Raft on bass. Finally they had a full band and decided that they needed a new bandname to start of new. Sonmehow they decided that they should go with the name The Boys Club. After a few gigs Barron Bodner replaced Martin Doublin on drums and they also realized that The Boys Club maybe wasn't the best bandname and changed it to Headstrong. After playing alongside Martin Ruanes Lions pride & Bootboys at the local punk venues they went into the studio to record their first songs and the result was the Spirit of 69 demo. They where supposed to record 2 songs for US of Oi! Vol.2 compilation and The oppressed was going to sign them to their Oi!/Ska Records but because of tensions within the band this never happened. They split up and went their separate ways in 1987.

L.A. Bootboys '87 (2007)

01 - Alcohol

02 - Police

03 - Spirit Of 69

04 - American Pride

05 - L.A. Bootboys '87

06 - Fast Song

07 - Getting Lit

08 - Misled Youth

09 - Bitch

10 - Hope

11 - Carol (Dead Trendies)

12 - Barry Prudom (Combat 84)

13 - Chaos (4 Skins)

14 - Foolin Around

15 - Urban Struggle

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