page_title: Violent Apathy
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Violent Apathy / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Violent Apathy drummer Eliot Rachman.
context_page_description: Violent Apathy is a U.S. hardcore band that formed in March 1981 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan and sparked the Kalamazoo hardcore scene. The original band was three high school friends from Jackson, Michigan along with Eliot Rachman, another WMU student who hailed from East Lansing. Rachman had worked on the 1980 United States Census in Lansing, MI with members of The Fix and the original publishers of Touch and Go magazine. He introduced the other members of the band to the then very new music of the Fix, the Necros, and Negative Approach, and all three bands provided a great deal of support and encouragement to VA.
  Violent Apathy, through many lineup changes, played numerous shows throughout Michigan, particularly in Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Kalamazoo. The band played outside of Michigan only twice, both in 1983, once in Indianapolis and once in Chicago. The Chicago appearance, however, was supposedly attended by a young Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and described as a formative experience for him in the book Come as You Are by Michael Azerrad.
context_section_description: Members of Violent Apathy have also been involved in a myriad of other musical endeavors.
  Kenny Knott was part of the band Just Say No, who recorded three albums on the Go Ahead Records label, in the late 1980s and went on to front The Monokulators in Lansing, MI.
  Tommy Fuller played in Spite from 1984 to 1985, and in Black Spring during the 1990s and currently runs a brewery in Lawton, MI.
  Rachman and Forgey were part of the original Meatmen. Rachman played with the Virelles, a group that eventually mutated into the God Bullies, another Kalamazoo legend. Also, Bowser and Rachman were part of a band called Dick and the Balls. Rachman also played with the Memphis Pilgrims after moving to NYC.
  Knott and Bowser are currently two thirds of the space/noise rock outfit Dr Xeron and the Moogulators.
caption: Violent Apathy drummer Eliot Rachman.
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