Sab Grey
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Sab Grey (b. December 31, 1962) is the founder of Iron Cross, one of the United States' first skinhead hardcore/Oi! bands.
Grey was born Frederick Prausnitz in Baltimore, Maryland to an English mother and a German father. As a teenager, he began to attend hardcore punk concerts in Washington DC, where he met Ian Mackaye, Henry Rollins, and others in the burgeoning Washington, DC hardcore subculture.
In 1981, he founded Iron Cross, an Oi!-influenced hardcore band. The band's name, as well as the skinhead look favored by its members, led to accusations of fascism, which Grey has always denied. Iron Cross released a handful of EPs, later released together as the album Live For Now. Their song "Crucified" became a hardcore classic after being covered by Agnostic Front. Weary of the controversy surrounding the band, Grey dismantled it in 1985 and moved to England. He later returned to the U.S. to start the rockabilly-influenced Royal Americans. As of 2006, Grey was continuing to play with the Royal Americans, and occasionally touring with a new lineup of Iron Cross.
