Bob Sallese
Bob Sallese is a New York City manager/producer best known for his impact on the NYC punk & hardcore scene in the early 1980s.
Sallese managed Ism And Co-produced the band's infamous Diet For the Worms LP on his S.I.N. Records label. He also produced both the compilations The Big Apple Rotten To The Core Vol. 1 & 2 on S.I.N. Records and Raw Power Records. http://www.myspace.com/ismpunk
According George Hurchalla's book Going Underground: American Punk, 1979-1992, Bob Sallese and Jism of the band Ism attempted to bring hardcore punk into the mainstream in early-1980s in New York City. They released the compilation The Big Apple Rotten to the Core, which featured local punk and hardcore bands. The album garnered nationwide airplay, and Ism gained notoriety on college and alternative commercial radio. As a result, WLIR (New York's commercial-alternative music station) began adding some hardcore to its playlists and began a late-night hardcore show hosted by Ben Manilla. This was the first ever commercial airplay of hardcore in the metropolitan NY area. The show featured many of the local bands playing at A7, an after-hours dive bar which was a regular hangout to the early NYC pioneers of the hardcore movement. Hurchalla points out that Jism and Sallese "had hopes of bringing hardcore into the mainstream" but "many of The New bands wanted to eradicate any taint of older punk from their sound...." (Hurchalla, page 112, Zuo Press,2005).