Roger Miret (Agnostic Front, Roger Miret and the Disasters, The Alligators)

Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Shane Told

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Episode 94 - Roger Miret is a true New York Hardcore legend. As the frontman of Agnostic Front, he has been at it since 1980. His story however is not so simple. Born in Cuba, his parents moved to NYC and he faced and extremely abusive childhood, eventually living on the streets, and also served some time in prison for drug trafficking. Now happily married and living in Arizona, he has written a brand new tell-all book chronicling the stories he faced growing up, the hardcore scene and his time locked up. Shane and Roger discuss the behind the scenes stories of the book, and of course what it’s like to be considered one of the “Godfathers of hardcore”. My Riot: Agnostic Front, Guts, Grits and Glory is out now! Buy the book on Amazon: Use link: leadsingersyndrome.com/amazon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	Stream free with ITBX, the UK's freshest streaming service. I'm going to use. Welcome everyone back to another episode of Lead Singer Syndrome. I am your host, Shane Told, as I take you into conversations that I have with other lead singers about what it's like to be the front man or front woman of a band. Today we have a New York hardcore legend
1:16.2	Mr. Raja Murat of Agnostic Front. Why am I the one to play? Why am I the one to play? You know the one to play. Roger should need no introduction he's one of the founding fathers.
1:35.0	Why am I going to see?
1:41.0	Roger should need no introduction. He's one of the founding fathers of New York
1:46.0	Hardcore, but if you're not familiar with the Agnostic Front, their music, or his
1:49.9	story, it's definitely unique.
1:53.0	Roger was born in Havana, Cuba.
1:56.0	His family moved to New York, a city when he was a kid.
2:00.0	He faced a tremendous amount of abuse.
2:02.0	He was living on the streets for a while. He faced tremendous amount of abuse.
2:02.8	He was living on the streets for a while,
2:04.8	and as Agnostic Front became a bigger and bigger band,
2:08.5	he actually had to go to prison for drug trafficking
2:11.2	for a number of years. Also, despite being of Cuban descent,
2:15.0	Agnostic Front was often aligned with white supremacist Nazi skinhead fan base,
2:20.0	which is totally, totally insane and something that they were fighting off for years.
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