Bridge Nine Records,<\/a> which would become the iconic label it is today. Before becoming Carry On and launching out of Los Angeles, the band was based in San Luis Obispo and briefly went by the name Preserve. George met most of the other members of Carry On at local hardcore shows, including Jones and Williams, who were members of Stand Your Ground, a straight-edge band from L.A..<\/p>\nOn \u201cA Life Less Plagued,\u201d Carry On\u2019s sound was a fast, aggressive expression of straight-edge hardcore punk. Jones said that the group was inspired by youth crew hardcore, which has been characterized more by its optimism and morality. Bands in this hardcore subculture mostly came out of the New York scene and centered ideologies of veganism and vegetarianism as well as abstaining from drugs and alcohol, also known as being straight-edge. Carry On helped give it a space on the West Coast.<\/p>\n
Minor Threat, 7 Seconds and SSD were at the helm of the music, with members who were straight-edge and lyrics focused on brotherhood and community values. Some of the leading bands in the movement included Youth of Today, Chain of Strength, Gorilla Biscuits, Bold, Judge, and Side By Side. The musical influences ranged from thrash metal to more melodic hardcore styles.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were definitely hardcore people through and through,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we identified with on a cultural and musical level, but growing up in or around where we lived in Southern California in the time we grew up in, too, Metallica was always on the radio and Corey and I really always loved Slayer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams said he was listening to a lot more crossover between metal bands such as Anthrax and Suicidal Tendencies before hardcore took over his music diet. They also listened to other genres such as power violence, but that didn\u2019t really populate in Carry On\u2019s music. Even with metal, there wasn\u2019t a presence of heavy metal riffage in the music, but you can hear a smidge of it in the gallop picking of \u201cRoll with the Punches\u201d on \u201cA Life Less Plagued.\u201d<\/p>\n
The album, released in Oct. 2001, helped establish Carry On as a force in Southern California hardcore and earned them shows alongside other bands in the scene, including Floorpunch, Ten Yard Fight, Lights Out, Champion and Life Long Tragedy. However, the band mostly fell out of the public eye and hardcore soundscape following the release. Rumors and allegations that Williams had broken edge (stopped living a straight-edge lifestyle) led to the band\u2019s dissolution, but the group didn\u2019t officially disband until 2005.<\/p>\n
That year, members came back together to play two final shows in L.A. alongside Champion and start other projects of their own. Jones formed Terror, but left the band two years later, shortly before the recording of their second LP. Williams formed Internal Affair, George started singing in The Adored and later co-founded Youth Code, and Jett joined Piece By Piece on vocals before becoming the drummer on Terror.<\/p>\n
While Jones and George are not straight-edge, Jones said he still enjoys much of the music that has emerged from the subgenre over the years. Williams added that he can look back and appreciate the statements they were making with their music at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very fortunate to have been a part of that,\u201d Williams said. \u201cYou see how many people those records touched, most of them long after the band broke up. One of the best parts about it is that Ryan wrote them in a way where they do feel personal, and people grow attachments to it for different reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like now I can listen to that record as an outsider and as a fan because it was just so long ago,\u201d Jones added. \u201cAll those songs don\u2019t belong to us anymore. They belong to everybody who has an attachment to them, and maybe they mean something different to them than they mean to me, or the band. I\u2019m just glad we get to play them again.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the band gears up for a few more reunion shows, Jones and Williams said the guys seem to be in good spirits about performing together and playing at the Sound and Fury Festival. Most of the group is spread out, including Williams, who lives in Long Island, New York, but he\u2019s been making the effort to practice despite a few setbacks.<\/p>\n
In 2014, Williams was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which affected his ability to play guitar, and he had to quit Manipulate, with whom he played. He was eventually able to get it under control, but last year he had a stroke which left his left arm very weak, and it didn\u2019t seem like it was going to be a possibility he\u2019d be able to join his old friends for the Carry On reunion.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving something positive and incredible to look forward to really pushed me, and I put a lot of work into it,\u201d Williams said. \u201cI spend every night playing guitar because I want to make sure that I can give it my best. I was never the greatest guitar player in the first place, so I don\u2019t think anyone has any crazy expectations, but I think I\u2019m playing guitar pretty well. I might not be going through the set list every day, but I\u2019m making sure that my hands are getting in the exercises they need to make sure that, when it comes to game time, I\u2019m on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sound and Fury<\/p>\n
When: Noon, Saturday, Aug. 15 and Sunday, Aug. 16.<\/p>\n
Where: Exposition Park, 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Tickets: $159.80 for the weekend and $88.90 for a single-day ticket at soundandfury.la<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guitarist Todd Jones and vocalist Ryan George got a pitch at last year\u2019s Sound and Fury festival. Van…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,6998,28134,420],"class_list":["post-425648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-music-concerts","tag-music-festivals","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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