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I’m a self admitted Slapshot super fan and I know that theres a Slapshot song called ‘Rap Sucks’ but back in the day (and still from time to time) I enjoyed me some rap music. Most of the stuff I liked was super stereotypical early 90′s stuff like Cypress Hill, Funkdoobiest & Onyx. I also liked some ‘good stuff’ like RUN DMC & Public Enemy, but I think that House of Pain was my favorite at the time.

I saw them a few times most notably with the Gravediggaz, Biohazard & Korn at the Strand in Providence, RI and at an all hip-hop show at E.M. Lowes (The Palladium) in Worcester, MA were tensions were high due to rap kids feeling invaded by hardcore kids who were jumping on the House of Pain band wagon. I think it was at one of these shows that Danny Boy broke his ankle and was temporarily replaced by Scott Ian from Anthrax for a few shows on the tour.

If you win the records in both of these auctions you will have all the ‘nessicary’ House of Pain vinyl. There are some other 12″ singles and there is a 3rd LP, but nothing thats as good as the first two LPs and the Legend single.

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