san antonio. woke up were the fuck am i? meet this dude hey wanna get drunk n watch sum movies? im wake up drunk. sure ya you got a smoke?so we watch my own private idaho which i liked. at sum point i pass out. wake up n dudes sucking my dick , i freak out kick shit outta him n leave took me a halfgallon first. suck all the dick you want but fuckoff messing with my passed out ass. anyhoo i staggered down to a river. see sum camps n shit. hey yall know were the yards at? etc etc me n sum homeguard get swilly n i takem back to tucson.never had much fun in san antonio. lotta folks end up there tho.
because is an underground movement. its not about fame or money or getting your "message" out to as many as possible (for bands who do that: dont you trust others with the revolution as well?). its a counter coulture (like hippie was), its about living as much as possible "outside" of the system.
Thats a lie...punk is harder than ever...DIY bands like Toxic Narcotic and Mouth Sewn Shut make sure of that...Anti-Flag, NOFX, The Rezllos, Leftover Crack...i mean c-mon...there are so many good punk bands out today...you just godda look because all the pussy ass emo bands are taking over...
I don't get all this obsession about what punk is. What I'm sure (almost) all of you can agree with is that it's a genre of music that has the odd gem in it. The image is a load of shite and has grown men walking around who have mutilated their face with ink and bits of metal so that they barely have the opportunity to choose to be punk or not anymore, stinking of beer with a can hanging from their hands. At some point near the beginning, whether it was right at the beginning or slightly later, sure, punk was about rejecting society, but not about being yourself. It was about destruction, and more importantly self destruction. It was about rejecting a persona society wanted you to be by making a new one. Now they've created their own sub-society with just as many restraints, if not more, and this thread proves that. As for the teeny-bopper punks I'm not going to even bother with them.
Punk has no rules..that's the point of punk rock to be against rules and do what feels natural...punk rock cannot be defined as any one thing or a combination of things as a definate so it cannot be deceased nor can it be living.
Punk Rock is whatever YOU want it to be. Dont judge me on your ideas of why a grown man should still be a punk. I for one have no intention of self-destruction. So dont be so narrow minded.
When i first saw this thread i thought it was about Bowling for soups song - Punk Rock 101... lol. If you ask me punks not dead. I dont think it'll ever die but i dont think its quite the same as it used to be... Used to be or is remember as.
I prefer hardcore to punk, a lot harder and faster. As far as I'm concerned both scenes are pretty much as dead as there gonna get. Sure there are still some bands that like to carry on the spirit. But face it, its never gonna be how it was in the 80s.
Dont know about LA, but over here punk's bigger, better and healthier than it has been in years. Scotland was like a graveyard punkwise from 86-92, but now bands play all the time and more importantly newer and younger bands are gigging. Viva la revolution!:guitar:
