In 2015, Old Man Markley members Joey “Balls” Garibaldi, joined the band on bass and later the guitarist Johnny “Fingers” Carey. The band toured Europe and the U.S. before Joey decided to leave and brother Adam Stern got back in the band. Youth Brigade plays every once in a while…
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Produced by Steve Kravac ( Less Than Jake , MXPX ) and mixed by longtime friend Thom Wilson (Offspring, Bouncing Souls). In 1996, the band contributed to the AIDS benefit album Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin produced by the Red Hot Organization along with Cuca , a Mexican band. In…
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More than ten years after their debut, the band recorded Happy Hour at Westbeach Studios releasing it in March 1994. Soon afterwards they added former Cadillac Tramps, U.S. Bombs , and current Social Distortion guitarist Jonny “2 Bags” Wickersham and recorded the next full-length album, To Sell the Truth in…
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In 1991, Mark and Adam met in a bar in Hamburg, Germany and expressed a desire to reform Youth Brigade for a tour, to which Shawn agreed. When they returned home in January 1992, they began working on new material and performed a show at the Whisky a Go Go…
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In 1989 Mark and Adam with younger brother Jamie Stern, founded the swing band Royal Crown Revue along with three other musicians. Those three Stern brothers left the band in 1991, shortly before the Youth Brigade reunion. Royal Crown Revue continued with new members replacing the departing Stern brothers.
Shawn and Mark continued on as “The Brigade” for about two years after Adam left, giving their first interview with the new moniker in April 1986.
After having secured a licensing deal for Sound & Fury in England , plans were made to tour Europe in the fall of 1984. Youth Brigade released the three-song EP What Price? in spring 1984 and then played around 50 dates throughout the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Poland,…
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Godzilla’s, a club in a former bowling alley in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles, became the new hub of activity for the Stern brothers and the venue grew into a mecca for punk rockers from around Southern California. With everyone working at the club, soon a small nest…
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In the summer of 1982, after recording three tracks for the first BYO record release Someone Got Their Head Kicked In , Youth Brigade set out in a big yellow school bus on an ambitious 30-city North American tour with fellow hardcore band Social Distortion . The 1984 film ,…
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Youth Brigade recalled in a 1982 interview: