Uniform Choice

David Mello - bass Pat Dubar - singing Victor Maynez - guitar Pat Dyson - guitar Patrick Longrie - drums One of the pillars of the second hardcore wave sex with Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuit, Judge, Bold and Chain of Strength. At the base of Uniform Choice, the meeting in spring 1982 between Myke Bates (guitar), Hanson Meyer (bass) and Eric Hanna (battery). Bates then played in a Palm Springs, Funeral Information, and performed concerts around, sharing the poster with Sin 34 or Black Flag. He runs a skateboard shop that he looses to go to Newport Beach (Orange County) with the firm intention of creating a new band and meets Meyer and Hanna, members of Moral Sin. The trio they founded together is called Uniform Choice. The closure of several clubs in the area obliges the group to bite its brake. But Jerry Roach gives them the opportunity to make their first weapons. Bates sings until the arrival of Elliott Colla, classmate of Meyer and Hanna. In September 1982, UC entered the studio to record the Orange Peel Sessions. 1984 is a decisive year. Hanna and Meyer left the band, replaced by Pat Dubar ( Unity ) and Pat Dyson. Bates only takes the charette at the end of the year. The quartet stabilizes around Dubar, Pat Longrie (ex- Unity, Dyson left in the meantime), Vic Maynez and Dave Mello and finally releases the first lp, Screaming for Change, which will become a classic of hardcore sex in 1986. The suite will be less folichonne with an ep Region of Ice , and a second album Staring Into the Sun , both released in 1988 and well below the first harms of Californians.
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