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Bad Brains guitarist Dr. Know performs at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, August 5, 2007. “We had started with the fusiony stuff, but when we heard the aggressiveness of punk, that really hit home with us, because we were kids,” Dr. Know (aka Gary Miller) told Guitar Player’s Tom Beaujour in 2021 while discussing about the band’s early days. “And we decided, We’re going to do this. We started to throw little concerts in our basement. And that’s it. The whole D.C. thing, that’s when it all got started, meeting Henry Rollins [of Black Flag] and Ian MacKaye [of Minor Threat] and playing at this place, Madam’s Organ.” He continued: “I was playing all downstrokes, so it had more oomph, and I was muting with the right hand, which was something I got from Al Di Meola. Van Halen had also just come out, and I was intrigued about how [Eddie] hit the harmonics with the pick. I was like, I’ve got to figure out how to do that. So I did.”