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This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form—it was about advocating kids to not wait to told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was okay to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage. But after the Sex Pistols tour….it just felt like this phony media thing. Punk wasn’t ours anymore. It had become everything we hated.
Legs McNeil from Please Kill Me. What’s great about it is that it’s in interview form: no biases (other than what to cut out/include, a big’un)and you get what the person said, not what they meant). A good read, which has basically helped me figure out that the difference between Punk in the 1970’s and the Hair Bands of the 80’s was only in the music. Everyone was having sex with groupies, doing drugs they knew were destructive yet established their identities, worrying about if they were outrageous enough ***1***. All these people talking about the days when “punk meant something” need to read this book to realize that punk was no different from HairMetal was no different from Grunge was no different from Emo: everyone gets laid the same.
More on the weekend later. Let’s just say I had a fantastic time, and can’t wait to do it again in 5 years.
***1***See Tommy Lee and Bret Michaels worrying about the amount of hairspray they used versus DeeDee Ramone and Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls debating who could do more dope.
This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form—it was about advocating kids to not wait to told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was okay to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage. But after the Sex Pistols tour….it just felt like this phony media thing. Punk wasn’t ours anymore. It had become everything we hated.
Legs McNeil from Please Kill Me. What’s great about it is that it’s in interview form: no biases (other than what to cut out/include, a big’un)and you get what the person said, not what they meant). A good read, which has basically helped me figure out that the difference between Punk in the 1970’s and the Hair Bands of the 80’s was only in the music. Everyone was having sex with groupies, doing drugs they knew were destructive yet established their identities, worrying about if they were outrageous enough ***1***. All these people talking about the days when “punk meant something” need to read this book to realize that punk was no different from HairMetal was no different from Grunge was no different from Emo: everyone gets laid the same.
More on the weekend later. Let’s just say I had a fantastic time, and can’t wait to do it again in 5 years.
***1***See Tommy Lee and Bret Michaels worrying about the amount of hairspray they used versus DeeDee Ramone and Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls debating who could do more dope.
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