Useless ID

熟悉朋克音乐的朋友一定对Useless ID这个名字不陌生，但恐怕很少有人知道他们并非来自盛产流行朋克的美国，他们是一支纯正的以色列乐队。国籍并不能代表什么，Useless ID用他们的实际行动告诉我们，重要的不是你来自哪里，而是你要往哪里去。
Useless ID成军于1994年年底，在乐队成立的初期，他们还主要活跃的在以色列的硬核圈里，他们创立了自己的独立厂牌Falafel Records（Falafel是乐队成员最爱的以色列小吃），并且独立发表了两张专辑。
直到1996年，Useless ID的四人阵容逐渐形成，他们决定开拓海外市场，并把目标放在了摇滚乐水平最高的美国。他们开始在美国巡演，时间长达半年之久。 这次成功的巡演让Useless ID迅速崛起，并得到加拿大、欧洲和日本的邀约，此后的两年之内，他们经历了五次北美巡演、两次欧洲巡演以及一次日本巡演。
真正让Useless ID更上一层楼的里程碑事件发生在1999年，当时乐队得到美国朋克名团the Ataris的赏识，the Ataris的主唱Kris Roe在看了一次Useless ID的演出之后，决定邀请Useless ID参与和the Ataris合作的split合集《Let It Burn》，这张唱片最终在由老牌朋克乐队the Vandals主导的朋克名厂Kung Fu Records旗下发表。而其中一首Useless ID的单曲《Too Bad You Don't Get It》更是被NOFX主唱Fat Mike相中，将这首歌收录在Fat Mike主理的朋克名厂Fat Wreck Chords的合集《Short Music for Short People》之中。
合集《Let It Burn》的成功让Useless ID顺利签约在Kung Fu Records旗下，并在2001年发表了乐队的第三张专辑《Bad Story, Happy Ending》，专辑制作人就是the Ataris的主唱Kris Roe。同年，乐队参加了世界最大规模的朋克巡演——Vans Warped Tour，与Rancid、New Found Glory等名团一同上路。2003年，Useless ID在Kung Fu Records旗下发表了第四张专辑《No Vacation from the World》，这张专辑由朋克名团No Use For A Name的灵魂人物——主唱Tony Sly亲自操刀，这也令Useless ID的水准再上一个台阶。
2004年，乐队的全新单曲《State of Fear》被收录在年度最具话题的朋克合集《Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2》中。此后，乐队开始录制第五张专辑《Redemption》，乐队请来了传奇性朋克乐队the Descendents的主唱Bill Stevenson担当制作人。结果，《Redemption》成为Useless ID迄今最受欢迎的专辑，它也成为Kung Fu该年度最畅销的唱片。
2005年，乐队参与拍摄讲述以色列摇滚乐的纪录片《Jericho's Echo"》。2006年9月，乐队发表了首张乐队传记纪录片DVD《Ratfaces Home Videos Presents Useless ID》，其中包括了许多乐队为发表过的现场演出实况。2007年，乐队巡演的足迹遍布全球，欧洲、日本、北美、澳大利亚等，同台演出的乐队包括NOFX、the Offspring、Sum41等等。2008年，乐队再次进入录音棚，制作人仍旧是Bill Stevenson，这张命名为《The Lost Broken Bones》的全新专辑，预计将于今年10月在全球发表。
Vocals, Bass: Yotam Ben Horin Guitar: Ishay Berger Guitar: Guy Carmel Drums: Yonatan Harpak We started the band over 10 years ago in Haifa, Israel, and played our first show in a small town near tel aviv in january,1995. We released our first 7' record "room of anger" in 96',and got on a plane over to california to play a show in gilman street. Somehow we ended up playing over 50 shows all over the west coast and since then we've been busy with touring, recording, putting out records and offcourse, drinking. We started our own label and named it after our favorite food:"Falafel records" and later released 2 useless id albums on it. Our good friends The Ataris liked our second self released album so much that they got their (then) record label "Kung Fu Records" to release it as a split record with The Ataris and that helped getting us signed to Kung Fu as well, and so far we have 3 records (of our own) out on Kung Fu records. After releasing our last album for Kung Fu in 2005 (Redemption) we spent a lot of our time on the road and after that, we got busy working on the tunes for our next album . it the mean time we released our first ever DVD (2006) in Jan-Feb 2008 we entered the awesome blasting Room studios again with bill stevenson, (drummer for the Descendents, all, only crime and this other group called Black Flag),and Jason Livermore with the intention of creating the best useless id album we could possibly produce. The result - our new album, "The Lost Broken Bones" is defiantly the one that we feel is our strongest and most enjoyable/dynamic album. it shows many new sides of our long time musical experience and covers a lot of the more serious issues we ever dealt and had to deal with as a band and individuals. We will be releasing the album on multiple record labels,for different territories, all of them rock, all of them are GOOD friends of Useless ID : In Japan-Bullion/u.l.f In the U.S/Canada-Suburban Home Records. In Europe-Rude Records. In Israel -Earsay & Hatav Hashmini. In Australia - The Planet Company - MGM distro' We will be spending alot of the time in 2008-2010 touring over the new album, we hope to see all of you dressed in your best gear at a show. o.k, forget about the gear. SEE YOU AT THE LONG "LOST BROKEN BONES" trip thats ahead of us all." We started the band about 10 years ago in Haifa, Israel, and played our first show in a small town near tel aviv in january,1995. We released our first 7' record "room of anger" in 96',and got on a plane over to california to play a show in gilman street. Somehow we ended up playing over 50 shows all over the west coast and since then we've been busy with touring, recording, putting out records and offcourse, drinking. We started our own label and named it after our favorite food:"Falafel records" and later released 2 useless id albums on it. Our good friends The Ataris liked our second self released album so much that they got their (then) record label "Kung Fu Records" to release it as a split record with The Ataris and that helped getting us signed to Kung Fu as well, and so far we have 3 records (of our own) out on Kung Fu records. There's a new Useless id record! We recorded it a few months back with bill stevenson, drummer for the Descendents, all, only crime and this other group called Black Flag. You can check out one of the songs from our upcoming record on "rock against bush .2", It's called "State of Fear", actually, you can listen to that song here as well as 4 other songs from our new record