Adamantium vs. Bad Brains

have you ever heard that Bad Brains tribute compilation called NEVER GIVE IN: A TRIBUTE TO THE BAD BRAINS? it's pretty awesome. the Moby song on it fucking rules. and it has Ignite, Cave In, Vision Of Disorder, Sepultura, etc.

i always thought it was interesting that Orange County's own Adamantium had a song on it. at the time, we had heard that nobody in Adamantium even liked Bad Brains, and it was Aaron Lisi who engineered the event.
i asked Keith Barney if he wanted to do a piece for www.alloverthistown.com about the recording of the song, and here's how the conversation transpired on AIM:

hiimjav: would you be interested in writing something
short for my blog?
heavykxxx: [AWAY] Just one second...
heavykxxx: about anything or what
hiimjav: About the adamantium song on the badbrains
tribute album
heavykxxx: i'm not really a bad brains fan... but
there were awesome bands on the comp so we picked the
heaviest one we could
heavykxxx: thats not a good story ha
  ----------------------- 5:34 pm -----------------------
hiimjav: Well that's the thing.. The rumor was that nobody
in your band even liked bad brains. I just want to write
more like historical and archival pieces. I'm gonna ask
horowitz rosie and maybe paul miner about it too
heavykxxx: i mean....
heavykxxx: moby was on it
heavykxxx: just had to
  ----------------------- 5:39 pm -----------------------
hiimjav: Lol
hiimjav: And that concludes the interview

i also asked Matt Horwitz to write something, and here is the
myspace message i got back:

We recorded it at the guy from Open Hand's studio. The same
day we recorded 'Virus' for a comp and the another song for
the "as the sun sets" comp(?). Jim Miner did the solo. I haven't
heard it in a long time but does Efrem sing on it too?

so there you have it. the whole story, straight from the
horse's mouth.  totally fucking interesting huh?