Trivia / Bad Brains

• Creator Backlash: Some of the band is quite embarrassed of "Don't Blow Bubbles", a rather homophobic song they recorded at the height of their involvement in Rastafarianism. They've never performed the song live and even replaced it with an instrumental on the 2022 physical reissues of Quickness.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: Partway through the sessions for I Against I, H.R. was jailed for a few months on charges of marijuana distribution - At the Record Producer's suggestion, he recorded the vocals to "Sacred Love" over the phone to help hasten the album's completion. This is why the vocals on the studio version have a distorted quality to them not present on any other song on the album.
• What Could Have Been: The 1989 album Quickness was very nearly released without H.R.: Original members Daryl Jenifer and Dr. Know entered the studio with touring members Taj Singleton (vocals) and Mackie Jayson (drums), and completed all of the songs with lyrics and melodies written by Singleton. Just before mastering the album, H.R. and Earl Hudson rejoined the band, Singleton's contributions were removed, and H.R. added totally different lyrics and vocal melodies to the music the band had already written without him. Earl Hudson didn't record any new drum parts, though his picture was on the cover and he was credited for drums instead of Mackie Jayson.