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"While working on a film about Manhattan's legendary Lower East Side music venue, CBGBs, Mandy Stein unintentionally discovered her next project; the director uncovered pristine footage of a then-young hardcore punk band, Bad Brains, ripping through one of their infamously riotous live shows. \"It all happened very organically,\" Stein says of Bad Brains: Band in DC, a documentary that examines the ongoing cult following of a DC punk/hardcore band that was never commercially successful yet widely regarded as influential.\r\nBad Brains were a tough sell: an entirely African-American Rastafarian punk crew that wrote pummeling punk riffs infused with traditional jazz-fusion elements in the 1970s. \"The industry didn't know how to market the band,\" explains co-director Benjamin Logan. \"But I always felt like they were one of the greatest bands ever.\"\r\nOnscreen, notoriously eccentric frontman Human Rights, a/k/a H.R., eats up the spotlight. Says the singer of making the film, &amp;ldquo;It was a lot of fun. An excellent time.&amp;rdquo;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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