Dave Jones (drummer)

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Dave Jones is an early hardcore punk drummer known for his work with Agnostic Front on their highly-regarded debut album Victim in Pain. Allmusic.com states that Victim in Pain was career-defining and confirmed AF's status as leaders of the NY hardcore movement.[1] A review of the album on allmusic states that the album "arguably remains the ultimate document of the New York hardcore scene".[2]

Dave also appears on the lesser-known album by Mental Abuse[3], Streets of Filth. Streets... featured the NJHC classic song Sock Woman, which was covered on releases by NJHC bands Adrenalin OD and Krackdown. Another cut from Streets..., Do You Mind, was covered on a 7 inch from Australian band Rupture.

Jones was in other early hardcore bands:

• The Enerjetics (who were opening act for The Plasmatics in the summer of 1980)[4]
• Jungle Rot (short-lived noise-core band)
• The OutGroup (who played on many east-coast hardcore bills from 1981-83)[5]
• Mental Floss/State of Survival