By: Djinji Brown

Djinji Brown — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:47:30 +0000

This is a beautiful thing!!! To Drew and the members of Antidote,
this Djinji Brown vocalist from Absolution. First I want to say thank you. For what you may ask? The first gig Absolution played we ended our set with a cover of “Something Must Be Done”. That song inspired me and our band so much. I didn’t have the experience to see y’all at A7 I got downtown kind of late in the game 86′. All I was ever told was that I had missed the ‘hey-days’ of 80-84. It’s funny how as kids we wrote things off as “old” and we were so young. But as city kids from that era most of us were wise beyond our years. As you said, to some of us that life became detrimental. To others it became a catalyst, and to some of us it was just a phase in time. As you saw at your reunion gig,that phase in time for a myriad of reasons lives in the hearts of kids/adults in the “now” and our music is part of the soundtrack to a very special period in NYC youth culture. I didn’t know how much Absolution was loved until damn near 20 years later,
Like you said, when the band broke up I just walked away. To get up there after all those years – words cannot describe. I feel you on that one!!!!! And big thanks to Torsten for being there to capture such important and memorable moments. Thank you.
Here’s a little outro lyric dedicated to Antidote.
— We lived, some died , we laughed we cried , we shaved and we dyed our hair to scare…. 20 + years later some of those feelings are still there, most of them are just in different forms….”Something must be done!” and it was,
That’s how we survived the storms!!!”
Peace and Love with a raised fist> To the Antidote Crew
Djinji Brown “Absolution”

By: eating crow

eating crow — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:00:25 +0000

thanks for sharing all this.fantastic stuff.

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