Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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87015404 | Play | Skate And Destroy | 00:00 Tools | |
5969907 | Play | Skate & Destroy | 00:00 Tools | |
5969909 | Play | Let's Go Get Cokes | 00:00 Tools | |
5969911 | Play | Friends And Enemies | 00:00 Tools | |
5969910 | Play | Tongue Like A Battering Ram | 00:00 Tools | |
5969913 | Play | California Dreamin' | 00:00 Tools | |
5969908 | Play | Skate and Destroy (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969912 | Play | Boredom Awaits | 00:00 Tools | |
5969916 | Play | Being Watched | 00:00 Tools | |
5969914 | Play | The Kids Are The Future | 00:00 Tools | |
5969915 | Play | Yesterday Is Gone | 00:00 Tools | |
5969918 | Play | Fast Food Diet | 00:00 Tools | |
5969917 | Play | Dark Room | 00:00 Tools | |
5969919 | Play | Room 101 | 00:00 Tools | |
5969924 | Play | Deathless | 00:00 Tools | |
5969921 | Play | Lost In Space | 00:00 Tools | |
5969933 | Play | Corpse In Disguise | 00:00 Tools | |
5969920 | Play | I Decide For Me | 00:00 Tools | |
5969922 | Play | 100 Years War | 00:00 Tools | |
5969925 | Play | Why Save The Whales | 00:00 Tools | |
5969923 | Play | Bullets Are Faster Than Words | 00:00 Tools | |
5969929 | Play | Pegged For Life | 00:00 Tools | |
5969926 | Play | Your Generation | 00:00 Tools | |
5969928 | Play | Since I Was A Kid | 00:00 Tools | |
5969930 | Play | Not Mine | 00:00 Tools | |
5969934 | Play | Tenebrae | 00:00 Tools | |
5969931 | Play | Beyond The Mirror | 00:00 Tools | |
5969927 | Play | Skate Harassment | 00:00 Tools | |
5969932 | Play | Spineless Majority | 00:00 Tools | |
5969937 | Play | Demons | 00:00 Tools | |
5969938 | Play | Why Save The Whales? | 00:00 Tools | |
5969939 | Play | A.U.K. | 02:36 Tools | |
5969944 | Play | Eternal Plan | 00:00 Tools | |
5969955 | Play | AUK | 00:00 Tools | |
5969953 | Play | Black Balled | 00:00 Tools | |
5969941 | Play | A Little Lit | 00:00 Tools | |
5969957 | Play | Running Amok | 00:00 Tools | |
5969959 | Play | Change of Pace | 00:00 Tools | |
5969983 | Play | Cut It Out | 00:00 Tools | |
5970044 | Play | Skate Destroy | 00:00 Tools | |
5969963 | Play | Terror in the Streets | 00:00 Tools | |
49575107 | Play | Bullets Are Faster... | 00:00 Tools | |
5969962 | Play | You Are Here | 00:00 Tools | |
5969951 | Play | A-U.K. | 00:00 Tools | |
5970021 | Play | The Demons | 00:00 Tools | |
5969982 | Play | Skate Harrassment (Live At The Tool And Die) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970008 | Play | Spineless Majority (Live AT KFJC) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969987 | Play | Demons (Live At CBGB's) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969946 | Play | Terror In the Streets (1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969943 | Play | You Are Here (1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970029 | Play | A Little Lilt | 00:00 Tools | |
5969948 | Play | A U.K. (1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575114 | Play | I Believe in Me | 00:00 Tools | |
5969942 | Play | Black Balled (1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969945 | Play | Eternal Plan (1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969978 | Play | Skate Harrassment | 00:00 Tools | |
5969947 | Play | Demons (1984) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969949 | Play | Change of Pace (1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969972 | Play | Being Watched (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
76877962 | Play | Skate & Destroy (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575110 | Play | Kids | 00:00 Tools | |
5969950 | Play | The Brain (1984) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575120 | Play | The Whistler | 00:00 Tools | |
5969976 | Play | Skate & Destroy (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575111 | Play | The Brain | 00:00 Tools | |
5969954 | Play | The Eagle has landed | 00:00 Tools | |
5969993 | Play | Friend And Enemies | 00:00 Tools | |
5969967 | Play | It Makes Me Sick (1982) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969981 | Play | Accelerate | 00:00 Tools | |
5969973 | Play | Why Save the Whales? (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969995 | Play | Change of Pace (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969958 | Play | Beyond the Mirror (1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970053 | Play | Me | 00:00 Tools | |
5969979 | Play | Fast Food Diet (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969952 | Play | Running Amok (1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575108 | Play | My Generation | 00:00 Tools | |
5969974 | Play | Lost In Space (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575124 | Play | A.U.K | 00:00 Tools | |
5969960 | Play | Tongue Like a Battering Ram (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575109 | Play | 01 - Room 101 | 00:00 Tools | |
49575112 | Play | Interview on KFJC | 00:00 Tools | |
5969989 | Play | Not Mine (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575115 | Play | Friends & Enemies | 00:00 Tools | |
5969971 | Play | Pegged for Life (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969961 | Play | Me (1982) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969977 | Play | Running Amok (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970042 | Play | A U.K. | 00:00 Tools | |
5969975 | Play | Since I Was a Kid (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969984 | Play | Beyond the Mirror (2009 Remaster) | 00:00 Tools | |
87015410 | Play | Let's Go Get Cokes (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575113 | Play | Friends and Enemies (1984) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969956 | Play | Why Save the Whales? (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969968 | Play | Being Watched (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969969 | Play | Corpse In Disguise (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
76877963 | Play | Skate Harassment (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969986 | Play | Me (demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575116 | Play | I Deciede for me | 00:00 Tools | |
87015405 | Play | Skate & Destroy (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970049 | Play | It Makes Me Sick (demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969970 | Play | Not Mine (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970068 | Play | Why Save the Walles | 00:00 Tools | |
5969964 | Play | I Decide for Me (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970023 | Play | Tongue like a battering ram (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970056 | Play | Bomb's Guitar Gets Broken In Michigan | 00:00 Tools | |
5969965 | Play | Deathless (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969994 | Play | Skate & Destroy (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969997 | Play | Running Amok (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575118 | Play | Eternal Plan (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575117 | Play | Demons (studio) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970025 | Play | Room 101 (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575119 | Play | Bullets Are Faster Than Words (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970032 | Play | Corpse in Disguise (live) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970009 | Play | Being Watched (live) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969966 | Play | Dark Room (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969998 | Play | Out of School | 00:00 Tools | |
5970067 | Play | Not mine (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970036 | Play | Lets Go Get Cokes 1980s Skatepunk | 00:00 Tools | |
5970012 | Play | Yesterday Is Gone (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970055 | Play | Friends and Enem | 00:00 Tools | |
5970014 | Play | Deathless (live) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575157 | Play | Pegged for life (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575121 | Play | Being Watched (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575122 | Play | Black Balled (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575123 | Play | Since I Was a Kid (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575140 | Play | Dark room (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969990 | Play | Beyond the Mirror (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
87015406 | Play | Tongue Like a Battering Ram (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575125 | Play | Why save the Wales | 00:00 Tools | |
87015408 | Play | Being Watched (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
89090226 | Play | Friends and Enemies (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575127 | Play | Skate Harrassment (1984) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575153 | Play | Beyond The Mirror (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575156 | Play | Demons (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575129 | Play | Skate Harassment (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575131 | Play | A Little Lilt (Machomovers Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575128 | Play | 100 Years of War | 00:00 Tools | |
49575132 | Play | Fast Food Diet (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575163 | Play | Let's go get Cokes (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575130 | Play | Fear | 00:00 Tools | |
49575136 | Play | A U.K | 00:00 Tools | |
49575137 | Play | Demons(studio) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575135 | Play | Punk Party(featuring Charles Norman) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575134 | Play | The Kids Are the Future (Mitsubishi Outlander 2015) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575133 | Play | Change of Pace (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970002 | Play | No Morals (Bomb demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
87015407 | Play | California Dreamin' (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575138 | Play | Beyond The Mirror(studio) | 00:00 Tools | |
5969980 | Play | Skate and Destroy (Live At Cbgbs 1985) | 00:00 Tools | |
5970058 | Play | I decide for me (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
76877964 | Play | Why Save The Whales? (live) | 00:00 Tools | |
87015411 | Play | Corpes In Disguise (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575141 | Play | Not For Me | 00:00 Tools | |
87015412 | Play | Your Generation (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575139 | Play | Boredom Awaits (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575145 | Play | DJ'n on KFJC | 00:00 Tools | |
49575142 | Play | Leben und sterben | 00:00 Tools | |
49575147 | Play | Punk Party | 00:00 Tools | |
89090227 | Play | (a Parody of) California Dreamin' | 00:00 Tools | |
5969991 | Play | Skate And Destroy (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575143 | Play | When I Was A Kid | 00:00 Tools | |
49575161 | Play | My generation (Generation X) | 00:00 Tools | |
89090228 | Play | Why Save the Whales (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
89090229 | Play | Bullets Are Faster Than Words (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575144 | Play | Opposite of Adults - Chiddy Bang Remix | 00:00 Tools | |
76877965 | Play | 100 Years War (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575146 | Play | 01 01 - Room 101 | 00:00 Tools | |
87015409 | Play | 100 Years War (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575148 | Play | Inside Out | 00:00 Tools | |
49575151 | Play | Looking For You | 00:00 Tools | |
89090230 | Play | The Kids Are the Future (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575154 | Play | Louie Louie (demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
89090231 | Play | Spineless Majority (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575149 | Play | California Dreaming | 00:00 Tools | |
49575155 | Play | Guitar Gets Broken in Michigan | 00:00 Tools | |
89090232 | Play | Yesterday Is Gone (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575150 | Play | Outland | 00:00 Tools | |
49575152 | Play | The Faction - Skate and Destroy | 00:00 Tools | |
49575159 | Play | Maybe Tomorrow | 00:00 Tools | |
89090233 | Play | Beyond the Mirror (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
89090234 | Play | Deathless (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575165 | Play | No Morals (Adam Bomb demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575160 | Play | Cutters Way | 00:00 Tools | |
89090235 | Play | Boredom Awaits (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
89090236 | Play | Demons (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) | 00:00 Tools | |
49575162 | Play | 02 02 - Eternal Plan | 00:00 Tools | |
49575164 | Play | It Makes Me Sick | 00:00 Tools | |
49575166 | Play | 03 03 - Black Ballad | 00:00 Tools | |
49575167 | Play | The Faction - AUK | 00:00 Tools |
The Faction was a punk rock band from San Jose, California who were closely linked to the underground skateboarding culture. The band played primarily during the years 1982 to 1985, although a different lineup recorded three songs and played two shows in 1989, and then another lineup played numerous shows and recorded 4 new songs in the early 21st century. Steve Caballero, one of skateboarding's brightest stars, played bass, and then guitar, in The Faction. Caballero probably attracted a lot of young skateboarders' interest to the band, but the music kept them coming back for more, and he wasn't the only skater in the band. Singer Gavin O'Brien was a heavy local at Winchester Skatepark and was more than able to hold his own in any session: vert, street, banks, whatever. Adam "Bomb" Segal's trademark high top Vans in all the bright, cool colors of the day had ollie holes on both shoes-the dude was doing switch tricks before anyone. Keith Rendon (drummer #1), Ray Stevens, II (bass) and Craig Bosch (drummer #2) were all accomplished skaters; Craig even has a trick named after him: the Bosch (a invert to blunt on a curb, ledge, etc). Catching onto the then-noteworthy idea of touring , the band gained notereity through repeated exposure in the skateboarding world, which helped on tour, and which helped create a national fanbase. Thrasher Magazine's MoFo compiled the first Skate rock tape, which featured several Faction songs, as well as songs by JFA and the Big Boys, the two other most established skate punk bands. Other bands included were Riot .303, Minus One, Los Olvidados, Skoundrelz, featuring Tony Alva, Anvil Chorus, Free Beer, featuring San Francisco's Tony and Tommy Guerrero, and others. The Faction recorded two 7" records, an LP, an EP, and a posthumous EP, and contributed songs to a 7" compilation single, From The Valley Within. Their song Skate and Destroy was also featured in the first skateboarding video, Powell-Peralta's "Bones Brigade Video Show." Except for the Thrasher Skate Rock tapes and the posthumous "Epitaph" EP, which was released on Mystic Records, all the Faction's music was released on IM Records. This label was owned by guitarist Adam Segal, and financed by Arly. Primarily due to musical evolutional differences in the band, they broke up in 1985. In 1989 they reformed with pro skateboarder Jeff Kendall on guitar instead of Adam Bomb. They played two shows, recorded "Accelerate" (used in the "Stoked: The Gator Story") and for whatever reason it didn't go any further. In 1994, Mark Waters, of Goldenrod Records, approached the band with the idea to compile the Faction's musical history into one complete CD package. The resulting "Collection" gathered most of the band's studio recordings along with some live and radio recordings, along with Gavin's complete list of every show the band ever played, complete lyrics, and what most of the band called their first good artwork. In 2001, the band started playing shows here and there, with original guitarist Russ Wright on guitar. One show led to more, and between 2001 and 2005 the band played a handful of shows, including gigs in Dortmund and Munster Germany, Vancouver B.C., Aberdeen Scotland, Seattle (with X), San Diego and Anaheim with the Adolescents and Strung Out, Sacramento, and numerous San Jose and San Francisco shows. The Faction's song 'Skate And Destroy" is featured in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 video game. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.