How did you find HED?

So...the question is: What was your first HED experience? How did you find their music? Was it a show, a friend, a random track, an epic event???

Please, share it with us!


I found them by accident. I was absent-mindedly browsing thru CDs at a music store back home, and found Broke. The cover looked cool, so I bought it. So glad I did!! Been a fan since that day - that CD must have stayed in my car for months before I took it out.

i was about 14 (about 8 years ago) and my mate gave me the self titled album to me for my birthday. he had already been listening to the newly released 'broke' for a few weeks and had decided to look into their first joint. straight away i was hooked. i remember that my favorite way to listen to them at that point was on my sony discman (fuck yeah!) on long road trips with my family. i would just stare out the window and contemplate all of jah's deep lyrics as shit went by. i think i especially liked crazy legs at that time for the sex rap novelty.

I saw Blackout vid on a music station (believe it or not)
and i liked it, checked out more, bought, and now i collect

A friend of mine who was living in Madison at the time heard some of Broke on JJO. Downloaded the CD, burned me a copy and the rest is history!

the first two songs i heard were blackout and voices

ashamed to admit, i didnt like (hed) at first, when i heard blackout
it was RIGHT when it came out, because i remember hearing it on satellite radio
and, they premiered it, and asked for callers to call in and give their thoughts
it was getting a lot of bad reviews lol

but when i heard voices, i fell in love...shortly after that became a bigger and bigger fan
and now i LOVE blackout by the way haha

First song I heard was P.O.S on a Metal Hammer (magazine) sampler CD back in 1998 when their first CD was out . almost 11years ago!! fark I then went and bought the album and have stayed faithful ever since! That same sampler CD also had System of a Down's first album song WAR? and again have listened to them ever since

Got the opportunity to catch (hed)p.e live @ Corner Hotel - Melbourne, Australia at the start of this year and it has truely been one of the tightest, loudest and full -on gig I have ever been to.. just absolutely awesome, cant wait for them to get back to OZ..

I remember hearing the song Suck It Up on my brother's ex's mix CD.
And She was like "I don't even know this band!"


I claimed to hate it, just because it was her.
But I got home, and downloaded the Self-Titled first.
Loved it.


Also, the name intrigued me, with the Parenthesis and what not.

hedDOWNUNDER wrote:

Got the opportunity to catch (hed)p.e live @ Corner Hotel - Melbourne, Australia at the start of this year and it has truely been one of the tightest, loudest and full -on gig I have ever been to.. just absolutely awesome, cant wait for them to get back to OZ..

fuckin-a to that brother. fingers crossed we'll get some dates after japan.

i hope they'll start with EU tour first

My old good friend sent me Wake Up, and I loved it. It was such a bad ass song and I had been looking for a heavy metal/rap style of music.

Went to my first Hed show 6 weeks later and have been a die hard fan since

Since 2001, is see the Rock am Ring Concert in the German TV.

back in 05 i found a copy of oia thought it looked tight boutght it and there you go been down ever since!

back in late 05 i found a copy of oia thought it looked tight boutght it and there you go been down ever since!

OIA is the shit

I went to go play tennis with Jared one time and he gave me a demo disc of his band and it was tight.

wow tennis thats hardcore lol did any one get a demo from jared at bed bath and beyond? lol just messing sin

Tennis Is Dope. Haha.

OIA didn't come out until 2005 dude, ah well doesn't really matter.
Just say Jah gave it to you in demo form in 04' when you went with him to amsterdaam to play tennis with some russian chicks?

i meant to say 05 it was late 05 i went back and edited my post i just got the years mixed up my bad

I first saw Hed around 2002, the videos for Bartender and Killing Time on mtv2, then I got a Strait Up promo tape with MCUD I Know Where You're At.
Damn, it was so long ago...

I first heard hed in like 2005 when I was 14. The first song I heard was Represent on XM radio I thought it was awesome, but I didn't buy a cd until 2006 I bought Only In America, and then all their other cd's they have been my favorite band ever since.

Represent on the radio?!

I began listening to them after I heard one of their tracks on that show "Dark Angel" back in 2003, the track "Killing Time" I believe it was

Jive knew what they were doing back then, but then they failed miserably

yehh jive sucks, well... blackout eh... well i dunno cuz blackout is still cool

(hed) had serpent boy on KoRn's family values extra values cd. That disc must be the best copilation disc of all times. BTK - corncob pipe, pitchshifter- wysiwyg, powerman 5000 - neckbone and all kinds of beautiful music. Was kind of thrown off by the sillly paranthesis as it was written hed (pe) on my mp3s and i thought it would be a silly band. but heard serpent boy a couple of times thought it was pretty good and downloaded firsty, ground, pos, tos, darky and some other songs from s/t that i found from napster. heard the intro on ground and i was hooked. this was back in 98.

A link to the extra values disc here