For Family And Flag Vol. 1

When I first got into Oi! and punk music I was a teenager living in the middle of suburban New York. Not only had I never traveled outside of the country, I didn't even know anyone who had. The dudes in the bands I listened to were about as real as the heroes I read about in X-Men comic books.

Somehow, someway, that poor kid from Brentwood has had a chance to travel to a bunch of countries and to play with so many of my musical heroes.

Every time I see "Cock Sparrer" and "45 Adapters" together on anything I go back to being that 16 year old and I couldn't be happier. I never take it for granted.

This is a compilation of a bunch of the bands on our label Pirate Press Records. Our family. That includes "Cock Sparrer" and "45 Adapters" and The Slackers and the Barstool Preachers and Lion's Law and Lenny Lashley a bunch of other great bands.