(Beyond a fan)

(My comment, left on Ruin's website's guestbook:)

Friday 12/06/2002 8:39:03pm
Name: Cutter
Age: Old Skull
Where you live: trapped in the burbs
Favorite Ruin Song: Freedom Has No Bounds
Other bands that sound like Ruin: Well, if my soul was a band....
Comments:
There has never been a band that has had more (positive!) influence over me than Ruin. It wasn't just the words, or the music, or the band members, or the scene, or the time period. It was all of it.

Standing in the back of Abe's in late '84, getting my friend Mark to pierce my ear at the table where people paid their pennies... The music pounds and pounds, and as it pounds I stand taller and taller...

People trip over their too big boots... and laugh about chocolate donuts. There's Chuck, and Kyoko, and Karen... West Philly Hardcore... What is Hardcore? What do I know? It's 1984 and I'm only 15.

But, that was the night before I took my abused self away from the abuse.

Because someone told me..

Freedom Has No Bounds.


Thanks Ruin. Thanks for interpreting my language and providing me with the strength to cut my bonds... and for teaching me the meaning of the word "Hardcore".