The Faction

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Skate And Destroy 00:00 Tools
Skate & Destroy 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Get Cokes 00:00 Tools
Friends And Enemies 00:00 Tools
Tongue Like A Battering Ram 00:00 Tools
California Dreamin' 00:00 Tools
Skate and Destroy (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Boredom Awaits 00:00 Tools
Being Watched 00:00 Tools
The Kids Are The Future 00:00 Tools
Yesterday Is Gone 00:00 Tools
Fast Food Diet 00:00 Tools
Dark Room 00:00 Tools
Room 101 00:00 Tools
Deathless 00:00 Tools
Lost In Space 00:00 Tools
Corpse In Disguise 00:00 Tools
I Decide For Me 00:00 Tools
100 Years War 00:00 Tools
Why Save The Whales 00:00 Tools
Bullets Are Faster Than Words 00:00 Tools
Pegged For Life 00:00 Tools
Your Generation 00:00 Tools
Since I Was A Kid 00:00 Tools
Not Mine 00:00 Tools
Tenebrae 00:00 Tools
Beyond The Mirror 00:00 Tools
Skate Harassment 00:00 Tools
Spineless Majority 00:00 Tools
Demons 00:00 Tools
Why Save The Whales? 00:00 Tools
A.U.K. 02:36 Tools
Eternal Plan 00:00 Tools
AUK 00:00 Tools
Black Balled 00:00 Tools
A Little Lit 00:00 Tools
Running Amok 00:00 Tools
Change of Pace 00:00 Tools
Cut It Out 00:00 Tools
Skate Destroy 00:00 Tools
Terror in the Streets 00:00 Tools
Bullets Are Faster... 00:00 Tools
You Are Here 00:00 Tools
A-U.K. 00:00 Tools
The Demons 00:00 Tools
Skate Harrassment (Live At The Tool And Die) 00:00 Tools
Spineless Majority (Live AT KFJC) 00:00 Tools
Demons (Live At CBGB's) 00:00 Tools
Terror In the Streets (1985) 00:00 Tools
You Are Here (1985) 00:00 Tools
A Little Lilt 00:00 Tools
A U.K. (1983) 00:00 Tools
I Believe in Me 00:00 Tools
Black Balled (1983) 00:00 Tools
Eternal Plan (1983) 00:00 Tools
Skate Harrassment 00:00 Tools
Demons (1984) 00:00 Tools
Change of Pace (1983) 00:00 Tools
Being Watched (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Skate & Destroy (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Kids 00:00 Tools
The Brain (1984) 00:00 Tools
The Whistler 00:00 Tools
Skate & Destroy (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
The Brain 00:00 Tools
The Eagle has landed 00:00 Tools
Friend And Enemies 00:00 Tools
It Makes Me Sick (1982) 00:00 Tools
Accelerate 00:00 Tools
Why Save the Whales? (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Change of Pace (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Beyond the Mirror (1983) 00:00 Tools
Me 00:00 Tools
Fast Food Diet (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Running Amok (1983) 00:00 Tools
My Generation 00:00 Tools
Lost In Space (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
A.U.K 00:00 Tools
Tongue Like a Battering Ram (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
01 - Room 101 00:00 Tools
Interview on KFJC 00:00 Tools
Not Mine (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Friends & Enemies 00:00 Tools
Pegged for Life (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
Me (1982) 00:00 Tools
Running Amok (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
A U.K. 00:00 Tools
Since I Was a Kid (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Beyond the Mirror (2009 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Get Cokes (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Friends and Enemies (1984) 00:00 Tools
Why Save the Whales? (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
Being Watched (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
Corpse In Disguise (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
Skate Harassment (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Me (demo) 00:00 Tools
I Deciede for me 00:00 Tools
Skate & Destroy (Live) 00:00 Tools
It Makes Me Sick (demo) 00:00 Tools
Not Mine (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
Why Save the Walles 00:00 Tools
I Decide for Me (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
Tongue like a battering ram (Live) 00:00 Tools
Bomb's Guitar Gets Broken In Michigan 00:00 Tools
Deathless (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
Skate & Destroy (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Running Amok (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Eternal Plan (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Demons (studio) 00:00 Tools
Room 101 (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Bullets Are Faster Than Words (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Corpse in Disguise (live) 00:00 Tools
Being Watched (live) 00:00 Tools
Dark Room (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
Out of School 00:00 Tools
Not mine (Live) 00:00 Tools
Lets Go Get Cokes 1980s Skatepunk 00:00 Tools
Yesterday Is Gone (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Friends and Enem 00:00 Tools
Deathless (live) 00:00 Tools
Pegged for life (Live) 00:00 Tools
Being Watched (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Black Balled (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Since I Was a Kid (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Dark room (Live) 00:00 Tools
Beyond the Mirror (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Tongue Like a Battering Ram (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Why save the Wales 00:00 Tools
Being Watched (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Friends and Enemies (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Skate Harrassment (1984) 00:00 Tools
Beyond The Mirror (Live) 00:00 Tools
Demons (Live) 00:00 Tools
Skate Harassment (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
A Little Lilt (Machomovers Remix) 00:00 Tools
100 Years of War 00:00 Tools
Fast Food Diet (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
Let's go get Cokes (Live) 00:00 Tools
Fear 00:00 Tools
A U.K 00:00 Tools
Demons(studio) 00:00 Tools
Punk Party(featuring Charles Norman) 00:00 Tools
The Kids Are the Future (Mitsubishi Outlander 2015) 00:00 Tools
Change of Pace (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
No Morals (Bomb demo) 00:00 Tools
California Dreamin' (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Beyond The Mirror(studio) 00:00 Tools
Skate and Destroy (Live At Cbgbs 1985) 00:00 Tools
I decide for me (Live) 00:00 Tools
Why Save The Whales? (live) 00:00 Tools
Corpes In Disguise (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Not For Me 00:00 Tools
Your Generation (Live) 00:00 Tools
Boredom Awaits (Live Bootleg: Tool & Die, San Francisco 1983) 00:00 Tools
DJ'n on KFJC 00:00 Tools
Leben und sterben 00:00 Tools
Punk Party 00:00 Tools
(a Parody of) California Dreamin' 00:00 Tools
Skate And Destroy (Live) 00:00 Tools
When I Was A Kid 00:00 Tools
My generation (Generation X) 00:00 Tools
Why Save the Whales (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Bullets Are Faster Than Words (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Opposite of Adults - Chiddy Bang Remix 00:00 Tools
100 Years War (Live) 00:00 Tools
01 01 - Room 101 00:00 Tools
100 Years War (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Inside Out 00:00 Tools
Looking For You 00:00 Tools
The Kids Are the Future (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Louie Louie (demo) 00:00 Tools
Spineless Majority (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
California Dreaming 00:00 Tools
Guitar Gets Broken in Michigan 00:00 Tools
Yesterday Is Gone (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Outland 00:00 Tools
The Faction - Skate and Destroy 00:00 Tools
Maybe Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Beyond the Mirror (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Deathless (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
No Morals (Adam Bomb demo) 00:00 Tools
Cutters Way 00:00 Tools
Boredom Awaits (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
Demons (feat. Steve Caballero (pro skateboard legend)) 00:00 Tools
02 02 - Eternal Plan 00:00 Tools
It Makes Me Sick 00:00 Tools
03 03 - Black Ballad 00:00 Tools
The Faction - AUK 00:00 Tools
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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.