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Last Rights

July 04th, 2005 | Posted by: Eric | Category: 80's Hardcore


I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Independence Day than by posting some material from Uber-American Jack Kelly. Kelly, aka Choke, has spent the past 25 years pissing of punks, vegans, commies and pretty much everyone else while fronting such Boston bands as Negative FX, Stars & Stripes, and Slapshot (amazingly still together - who knew? ). Last Rights may be the briefest and best moment of all of Kelly’s bands - Playing all of one show and releasing a two song 7″ as Taang #2 in 1984. The two original tracks, “Chunks” and “So Ends Our Night” are both midtempo hardcore numbers celebrating brotherhood, straight edge, and beating the shit out of people. Standard fare for Mr. Kelly. Despite the ridiculous lyrics and inflammatory imagery (i.e. the infamous Hitler sleeve) I still enjoy this record. Taang has kept the Last Rights material (6 tracks all together) in print on CD along with Choke’s earlier hardcore efforts in Negative FX. Below are the original tracks from Taang #2 and one additional one from the CD.

Last Rights - Chunks.mp3
Last Rights - So Ends Our Night.mp3
Last Rights - Wasted Life.mp3

Warning: After hearing these tracks you may want to head down to the local fireworks show and either beat the hell out of someone having a beer or punch some dirty hippie in the face. Maybe both. Please, try to exhibit some control.

7 Comments so far

  1. Scott July 5th, 2005 9:32 pm

    Yeah, what was with the Hitler picture anyways? It doesn’t go with a song does it?

  2. eric July 5th, 2005 10:02 pm

    From what I’ve read it was Jack Kelly’s way of pissing people off, nothing more. However, after hearing some of the dumbass things come out of Choke’s mouth (both onstage and the whole Stars and Stripes skin project) I wouldn’t be surprised if it runs a little deeper

  3. erick July 7th, 2005 6:53 am

    So that shit about Choke now being a gay hairdresser wasn’t true? How disappointing.

  4. Jason Blood July 18th, 2005 4:35 pm

    I was there, and maybe you should have been, as well, and you would have had your teeth kicked in by one of us before you could go mouthing off about it 20 years later…..

  5. slickdpdx July 19th, 2005 5:18 am

    Negative FX rules!

    No mention of the Dino Jr. cover? Its really good. If I knew how to host music…

  6. gaz October 5th, 2005 2:10 pm

    hi
    Just heard the last rights stuff for the first time along with negative fx stuff pretty god damn good for their time,the thing is you gotta take lyrics with a pinch of salt and just get on with listening to them and see thru the bullshit

  7. ChrisMo October 10th, 2007 10:11 am

    Thanks for postin’ this.. Have wanted to hear the original ever since getting the Dinosaur Jr. Just Like Heaven 7 inch… 18 years ago (fuck.. time goes by). Didn’t realize ‘Choke’ was in this band.. arrg my st8 edge days, had a slapshot 7′inch on blue vinyl back then.. need a beer…. got any Jerry’s Kids? thanks again

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