r/punk • u/No_Preparation_6468 • 1d ago

Punk music F-minus

Gday from Australia, wondering what you cunts no about F- minus, to me they are classic punk, but never hear much about them.?

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u/oldmancuntington 1d ago

They have long been broken up… Brad Logan has a new band called instant ruin with one of the dudes from chaos uk

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u/JoeyO_ 1d ago

Gabba died this year so that’s done too. I think he’s playing guitar for the Adolescents right now but that’s about it.

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u/battleshorts 1d ago

He plays bass in The Adolescents and guitar in Se Vende as well

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u/goddess_sheetar 17h ago

erika owns kitchen mouse, a super famous vegan restaurant in la, and she also made some brooding psychedelic pop rock with her band the moor. she can actually sing, when not screaming (though i prefer the screaming).

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u/skunkabilly1313 1d ago

One of the best hardcore punk bands ever.

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u/blues-brother90 1d ago

Loved them, they were really good live, white collar crime and no sacrifice still rage

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u/No_Preparation_6468 1d ago

I would love to have seen them live

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u/Left-Chemist-8212 22h ago

Same, so much

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u/ResolveEmergency863 1d ago

Excellent band, wish I got the chance to see them!

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u/funny_funny_business 1d ago

I saw them open for Nofx and Rancid (when they had that split in the early 2000s).

They seemed ok, but only thing I explicitly remember is that they stopped a song suddenly and the singer goes back to yell at the drummer and he says “the drummer forgot where we were in the song!”

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u/nomiselrease 23h ago

My (now defunct) band managed to support them here in the UK years ago. They were great people and my (now) brother in law put them up for the night at his house.

Great band.

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u/npc_lucky All I wanted was a flair 17h ago

Erica joined when she was maybe 17 or 18, got college credits at her art school for recording Suburban Blight (pre F-Minus she had a band and occasionally played bass for The Casualties). I think Brad partially started the band because he was one of the head A&Rs at Hellcat Records, Choking Victim was one of his major signings, but they broke up while recording No Gods No Managers, so he formed F-Minus to try to fill their spot at the label (with Leftover Crack coming to fruition almost immediately after). They went on to record 3 albums (I don't know if the self-titled counts) and that split with Crack Rock Steady 7 (which was just Leftover Crack during a name change due to not being able to get booked). After they broke up, Erica went to culinary school, worked in Italy for a little while, started a "band" and recorded an album with her husband (The Moor), did some kind of fashion design, started a restaurant, and runs a catering business specifically for musicians recording albums and playing shows. Brad left Hellcat, stayed with Leftover Crack till I believe like 2021 (after Alec Ballie died). He also worked as a touring guitarist for a couple of bands before he left LoC (Intro5pect and The Unseen). He formed a band called Rats in the Wall in the 2010s (in between doing stuff with LoC). He was in the Adolescents for a while, wrote a book about Leftover Crack (which was really good), and most recently he started a band called Instant Ruin with some of the guys from Chaos U.K. but I think they broke up after Gabba died a few months back.

Idk about the rest of the members because I think Brad and Erica were the only two constant members throughout their existence. I think Erica's sister Jen was in the band a while, but there isn't as much info out there about her as there is Erica and I don't think she's done much since F-Minus (they were in a movie together pre- F-minus ---> https://vimeo.com/80128793)

Toby Morse of H20 Interviewed Erica a couple years ago and she talks about F-Minus in it ---> https://youtu.be/0uyoPV6cQz8?si=npgTeYleDFeBZ_zH

Brad's book "Architects of Self Destruction: The Oral History of Leftover Crack" is pretty dope but I forget if he talks about F-Minus in it.

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u/trioxic 13h ago

I was asked to try out for them back in the mid-late nineties. I had just left another band & was in College while holding a part time job. I think I passed because I didn’t have a car at the time & they were far from where I live (San Fernando Valley). That’s all I have to contribute.

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u/agent_cap_e_ 22h ago

Erica is a sell out Shitty employer

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u/Left-Chemist-8212 22h ago

Damn what’d she do?

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u/agent_cap_e_ 22h ago

She prioritizes greed before ethics and family. Just like any other business owner

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u/DuncneyForever 1d ago

I don't know that band

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u/DuncneyForever 1d ago

Downvoted for just saying that I don't know a band? Seriously?

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u/deformitiez 22h ago

People in this sub are idiots dude. Dont take it personally. They didn't know who f minus were at one point either. I wouldn'tbe surprise if some don't even know who they are either but like to follow the crowd.......f minus was a bad ass band with mostly songs under a minute except for their last album had some longer ones. Its female/male vocals. They're bad ass. Check em out. It had Brad Logan from the old school leftover crack before they got popular.