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Al Barile, guitarist with pioneering hardcore band SSD, dies at 63
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Al Barile, guitarist with pioneering hardcore band SSD, dies at 63

Last updated: April 7, 2025 4:47 am
Editorial Board Published April 7, 2025
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Al Barile, who performed guitar within the influential Boston hardcore band SS Deregulate — a linchpin of the drink-and-drug-shunning straight-edge scene of the early Eighties that additionally encompassed Washington’s Minor Menace — died Sunday at Boston’s Brigham and Girls’s Hospital. He was 63.

His dying was introduced on Instagram by his spouse, Nancy Barile, who didn’t specify a trigger however stated that her husband had been recognized with colon most cancers in 2022 and “passed away peacefully” together with her at his aspect.

With songs that averaged a few minute in size, SS Deregulate — Society System Deregulate for lengthy, SSD for brief — railed furiously in opposition to what the members noticed because the hypocrisy and the oppressive tendencies of presidency, the police and arranged faith on albums resembling 1982’s “The Kids Will Have Their Say,” which bore a canopy picture depicting a gaggle of younger individuals storming the steps of the Massachusetts State Home. The music was loud and quick, with pummeling guitar riffs that made the thought of a fourth chord appear to be an immoral extravagance.

“’The Kids Will Have Their Say’ is so unsettling, so ugly, that SS Decontrol’s fans needn’t worry about their champs’ succumbing to creeping commercialism — not even accidentally,” Joyce Millman wrote admiringly within the Boston Phoenix in 1982. Within the Trouser Press, Ian McCaleb and Ira Robbins referred to as the band’s follow-up, 1983’s “Get It Away,” “a definitive hardcore classic.”

Alan Scott Barile was born Oct. 4, 1961, in Lynn, Mass., the place he grew up taking part in hockey and “making Dracula movies,” as his spouse stated in a press release. Listening to the Ramones impressed him to begin taking part in guitar, after which he shaped SSD (whereas a mechanical-engineering scholar at Northeastern College) with bassist Jaime Sciarappa, drummer Chris Foley and singer David Spring, who was often called Springa.

“Al comes out and makes the big speech — and I remember this as clear as I remember my f— 8th birthday,” Springa stated in a 2024 documentary about SSD. “‘OK, what this band is gonna be about — it’s not gonna be a groovy type of band where people go out on the dance floor and shake their ass. We’re making a statement here: It’s about anti-government, anti-society, anti-conformity and breaking down the barriers between the band and the audience.’”

Within the documentary, Barile stated he began SSD as a form of response to well-known Boston bands resembling Aerosmith and the Vehicles. “It didn’t seem like it was real sincere, that kind of music — it didn’t seem like it had the kind of honesty and sincerity that I was after,” he stated. The notion of spurning booze and medicines got here from Minor Menace, which launched its first EP in 1981 with a music referred to as “Straight Edge,” through which singer Ian MacKaye sang, “I’m a person just like you / But I’ve got better things to do / Than sit around and f— my head / Hang out with the living dead.”

In her assertion, Nancy Barile stated the straight-edge philosophy “provided kids with a choice from the typical ’70s suburban party lifestyle.”

SSD put out “The Kids Will Have Their Say” as a joint launch between the band’s Xclaim! Data and MacKaye’s Dischord label; for “Get It Away,” the band added guitarist Francois Levesque. The band put out two extra heavy-metal-leaning LPs earlier than breaking apart in 1985. Barile later shaped a gaggle referred to as Gage and labored as an engineer for Basic Electrical. This 12 months, SSD was inducted into the New England Music Corridor of Fame.

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