Name: Keith Peterson Used To Be In A Hardcore Band?
Uploaded: 2025-10-28T21:00:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Keith Peterson Used To Be In A Hardcore Band?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Keith Peterson Used To Be In A Hardcore Band?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-28. Transcript available.

Tell me a little bit about your life outside of work.
Because I know you're in a band.
I remember you telling me about it one time.
Yeah, I was in two bands.
It was my first band.
We started in 1998.
And then my other one, we've been around a pretty long time too.
What's that band called?
The first one was called GFY.
And the second one's Loser Sometimes Win.
And they're like New York hardcore bands.
Hardcore.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nice.
And where do you kind of model them?
What is GFY for?
Go fuck yourself.
Oh, yeah.
I stood for it.
Yeah.
I was younger then.
Yeah.
Oh, that shit was fun, huh?
Dude, where did you guys play?
How did you guys get started?
Long Island guys.
And we met, you know, it's like a music scene.
And we met, I was like, oh, let's start something.
And then we just started it.
And were you singing?
Were you playing an instrument?
I sing.
You did?
So that voice, as part of it, was that one of the reasons you even got into
singing?
Just because your voice was kind of different?
It just happens to be that my voice kind of fit the hardcore thing.
But I liked hardcore way before that.
But I kind of like started listening to hardcore punk rock music when I was
really young.
But yeah, I was just into like, I got into heavy metal and like Black Sabbath
and all that.
And then when I started it in my early teens, I wanted to find something that
kind of like fit more of where I was.
And more like work, it's made like street music and stuff.
So that's, I found hardcore and just fell in love with it from then.
And, you know, I'm still, still, that's what I listen to.
I listen to every, you know, not everything.
Actually, I don't like people who say they listen to everything.
But I listen to a lot of types of music.
Let's take a gander at some of it.
Let's take an ear gander here at a little bit of it.
Play that second one, actually.
I like Till I Die.
Let's take an ear gander here at a little bit of it.
Do you come in on this?
Yeah, I think right after the intro.
Who the hell are you?
We came to wreck everything and ruin your life.
Codesync us.
Yeah, that's nice.
There's two singers in this band.
Yeah, bro.
I like it.
That vibe is a pure vibe, dude.
That was like, that's like one type of culture, that whole energy.
And it's like silly too, like the intro to that is the Death March, right?
And it was like Halloween and I pressed this thing and that's what it was like.
So I went to my guys.
I'm like, yo, play the Death March.
Yeah.
And there you go.
What are the ladies like that would come to those shows?
That's how I met my wife.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's a pretty good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
So from right before the band started or whatever, I met her and then-
Where did you meet her at?
Like, take me through that.
At the band Hatebreed.
At a Hatebreed show.
Hatebreed?
Yeah.
Bring them up.
They're famous.
And are they out of New York?
No, Connecticut.
They're famous now.
They play huge shows.
Yeah, I think I've heard their name before.
And so were you guys just, like, were you at the concession stand or were you
just, like, kind of, like, just in the mosh pit?
I don't know if there's a concession stand, but, uh, yeah, no, yeah.
It's just tongue piercings and vodka.
Vodka.
Yeah, where'd you meet her at?
At the show and just, you know, whatever, the dance and what do you call it?
The mosh pit.
Yeah, and, uh, yeah, and we just met, and that was that, yeah.
Dude, those pits are fun, kind of, if you can coordinate the pits.
Do you ever do that when you're on stage where you're, like, all right,
everybody did this side and this side, and then you make a merge?
Like, I was at a Suicide Boys show not long ago.
There's probably a lot more people at that show than my show.
Yeah, yeah.
But they'll do this thing where it's, like, this kind of controlled thing, but
mosh pits used to be pretty sick.
It's like the wall of death.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, when there's a big crowd, those are cool looking.
Yeah, it's just dope, dude.
Yeah.
A hunker band that does that really good with us is sick of it all.
They do a good wall of death.
Sick of it all?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not familiar with them.
I think I'm not familiar with as much of that genre of music.
When I was growing up, like, we had, like, a brother's friend.
Like, my brother's friends, they had a band that was like that.
And so, like, me and the younger brother, we'd go lit, you know, just try to
get involved and stuff.
But there was always this kind of, like, uh,
I think in our area, it was kind of fringe a little bit just because we didn't
have as many people that listened to that type of music.
Yeah.
In New York, it's, you know, even though it had its ups and downs, but, like,
at one point, you had, like, CBGBs was, like, the home, you know, and stuff
like that.
And you had lots of clubs.
And so, it's...
Would you go there when you were growing up, CBGB?
Yeah.
Really?
That's where I went mostly.
And then I ended up playing there in both bands a few times.
Bring it up, CBGB.
CBGB was a legendary New York City music club in the Bowery District founded by
Hilly Cristal.
In 1973, it became a crucial incubator for the American punk and new wave rock
movements.
Though it was initially intended for country bluegrass and blues music, which
the CBGB, oh, I didn't even realize that, name stands for country bluegrass
blues.
The unglamorous, gritty venue hosted influential bands like the Ramones, Blondie,
Talking Heads, and Patti Smith Group before closing in 2006.
Wow.
Yeah.
So, do you remember who did you go see there?
Oh, yeah.
It was, like, New York bands, like, Sick of It All, Gnostic Front.
Pretty much, like, once you kind of get into that, then it's all friends' bands.
They get to play.
They play there.
You go.
Like, we played there a few times.
It was, like, Sundays, you know, you'd go to, that's where you go, take the
train and go to a show.
And then there was, at the time, there was, like, a bunch of clubs and, you
know, great clubs there.
And, you know, being young, you could just go, you know, at one point you could
go three or four shows a week.
Yeah.
So, that became, like, main focus for a pretty long time.
Did you have, like, a routine before you got on stage with your band?
Did you have any?
Yeah.
You know, like, I would just stand, like, selling shirts, so stand behind the
distro and kind of get ready and just get on and go.
It's not much, you know, not much, like, I don't even, you know, I think it's
good, but, like, anyone could do it, what I was doing.
Just get on and if you love it, you just start screaming, I guess.
Yeah.
But, you know, I, like, the raw energy of it all is really what I still love.
And I don't get to go to shows as much anymore, but my son's really, but my son's
in three bands right now.
Oh, wow.
So, he's really involved in that.
So, but I still love the whole culture.
Yeah, it almost seems like there's some correlation there between, like, the
intensity, right, of that and MMA.
Yeah, there it is.
Definitely, definitely.
Yeah, it's like, it's almost like when the pedal is pressed all the way down in
a car and you're going at that.
Yeah.
Like, there's that.
I was actually really surprised when I started reffing, you know, events that
were on TV, that how many guys at the hardcore scene were into MMA and, you
know, knew, like, you know, the events and stuff.
A lot, there is a connection, you know, with jujitsu and hardcore teams, a lot
of guys roll.
But, but with, you know, with the UFC, with all that stuff, like, you know, oh,
they knew everything about it.
I was pretty surprised.
But it makes sense.
Yeah, it does.
Dude, did you have, who influenced that music in you when you were a kid?
Because I remember, like, my brother would listen to, like, D.O., Lock Up the
Wolves.
Okay, yeah.
He would listen to some, like, Skinny Puppy, maybe, I think was a band as well.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, nothing too crazy, but, like, kind of a little bit of mainstream edge,
you know?
Yeah, Skinny Puppy's, yeah, good.
The, you know, the metal stuff, like, I kind of, like, just, you know, like,
saw it and was like,
I thought the guys were, like, the cutoff sleeves and the long hair, even
though I've never had long hair.
I was like, oh, yeah.
Damn.
Some in the front, like, in the mid-90s, I had, like, that skater-haired thing.
Somebody make us a couple of, put together a few memes of somebody out there
who knows how to do it,
of No Nonsense with some long hair, just so we have them for the future.
Let's, we'll throw a couple of them in.
Or we'll put this clip online and put a couple of them in.
I'd love to just see that.
Yeah, dude, I can't believe we didn't even try it.
Yeah, no.
And then, just that whole, whatever, and then, like, my brother, as he was
going,
he started listening to, like, the different metal, but, like, Van Halen and,
you know, stuff like that.
So, we kind of got Motley Crue.
Yeah.
Like, my first ever concert was Poison.
I went with my brother.
He was a few years older.
So, I went, and then my second one was Motley Crue.
Fuck, dude, that's so sick, bro.
On the Dr. Feel Good tour.
He's on the cover.
Yeah.
We've had Tommy Lee on here.
Awesome.
Yeah, that's crazy.
That's crazy, dude.
So, that tour, he played, like, up on the ceiling, and he just, like, did, like,
even,
I think it was, like, ACDC, like, cover songs, and just, like, went across the
ceiling.
It's pretty cool.
And, like, what, what, what, what, what, what, what,