Hard-Core: Life of My Own

Harley Flanagan exhibits a fascinating back story: a child prodigy and family friend of Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, at a young age he became close to many stars of the early punk rock scene like Joe Strummer of The Clash and was taught to play bass by members of the famed Black punk band Bad Brains. He started playing drums for the New York punk band the Stimulators when he was eleven years old; playing at places like Max's Kansas City with some of the most notable names of the punk scene. He then went on to start the notorious hardcore band Cro-Mags.