I wanna start a punk band..

But none of my friends are into it. No one I know around my area even listens to punk rock, and the ones who do are those kinds of "OH MY GOD MAN BAD RELIGION IS PUNK NOFX IS NOT PUNK THEY'RE POP SHUT UP POSEUR" kinds of guys.

Anyway, what's the best way to get a good punk band together? Anyone around NE-NC like punk? I'm a guitarist, my biggest influences are:

NOFX
Bad Religion
Fifteen
Flogging Molly
Nirvana
Metallica
Anthrax
Offspring
Zero Down
Hank Williams
Johnny Cash

Random other punk bands that were around the west coast, like Agent Orange and such bands. Yes, I know some of those artists weren't punk, deal with it. There's more than one genre of music, you know.

TL;DR, best way to find band members with similar music tastes?

 

Really??
Skater punk is just barely distinguishable from pop punk.

Bulletins at local colleges, signs on poles, that sorta thing are all that I can think of.

 

yea, NOFX is pretty shitty dude

 

do you play anything?

 

Try the classifieds, some people put ads their for bands, or you can try online.

 

Have you tried craigslist? If you do I suggest making an account with an different e-mail other than your personal one in case of spammers or weirdos, but it might yield some results. Good Luck!

 

Ooooh ooohhh pick me! Pick me! I can sing Lol.. prob wrong continent..

 

Well... Be part of the scene. You should be going to shows, and if youre going to shows, you should be meeting people. GET OUT THERE, punk is for everyone!

 

I found one of my bands through craigslist...I put it out there that when I sing, it sounds like Jesus is descending naked raining well-heard orgasms all over the land...I got a response in less then an hour and BAM! I'm the lead singer of a shitty band!

 

you list metallica.

Pretty sure everything bad religion played about went in one ear and out the other, with you.

 

LOL, but still though punk is about being whatever it is you want to be so he can listen to mariah carey for all I care!

 

nobody listens to enough goth punk, seriously.

 

Please give me an example

 

afi (and no, not the last few albums)
thought riot
amen
calabrese
nerve agents
tiger army & nekromantix (stepping into psychobilly a little)

to be honest, it's just darker punk. i hate this happy shit.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf3WPURmdD4"]YouTube - AFI - Porphyria Cutanea Tarda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VECoe6aBJrs"]YouTube - Thought Riot - "With Love, the Underground" A-F Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVcGdjIF1M"]YouTube - AMEN - Refuse Amen

 

Ah gotcha. Yeah I reallly dig the old AFI from back in the day. Big fan here! But I never really got in to their newer stuff. Not that it's not good or anything, I just never really got in to it.

 

there's good reason, it's shit lol.

 

hahaha well I kinda disagree. It's not punk, but it's not neccessarly shit.....


ok it's shit.

hahahaha

 

re the op, when i was young we just started bands, figured out who was best at doing what, made much glorious noise

have things changed that much?

 

yup. its especially like that for punk. learn how to make powerchords and you're good!