Yes, Listen to "You can't bring me down" before you paddle out to some chunks! Also, CB...your JFA board story is killer. I have a JFA album stored away (it's a round vinyl music device kids).
My "crew" back in the day all had white button down dress shirts with different Suicidal Tendencies style logo; mine was a skeleton jumping off a chair with a noose around it's neck, while taking a handful of pills and shooting itself in the head. I was soooo hard... lol. We would skate parking garages and listen to Institutonalized on boom boxes. Saw ST 2x. (if we still had signatures available, saw them 2x would be mine...)
Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. A previously unknown footnote in musical history until made famous by Elmer Fudd... "Kill da Waaa-bit... Kill da Waaaaa-bit..." Nordic Ronda Rouseys on flyin horses. Way better to get amped for a session than mere punk metal thra****ude. Is it springtime yet?
Now that was funny--I do remember that. Laugh for the week for me!! I owe you a beer!! If I ever get to Tejas.....??
Agree on the older stuff. I did not get to see them live until the mid 90s. For some reason that song just got me going.
There are no more punks. Just like there are no more hippies. You can dress like a punk, and you can make punk style music, but I would argue that the genre of punk rock was inextricably linked to the time in which it evolved. Just like the hippie culture. Nothing wrong with liking punk music, even modern punks bands make some great music. But they're followers, and true punks were never followers.
LOL Thanks to Mr Swellinfo Guy for a place to talk sh--, I mean stuff, and laugh a little. I love y'all Jersey dudes, and I know that The Belmar is the surfing epicenter of the known universe, but I can't get this image outa my head. Clearing the beach at The Belmar before surfing... Rock on dudes. [video=youtube;ZkH5Ak4wAnY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkH5Ak4wAnY[/video]
So, Whalerus is Rob Kelly? Well, of course the southern guys don't stay in OC, not when Bayhead is sitting there. It just sits there begging to be Mounted and Karged. Wow. Man, LBCREW I hope I grow to be such a wise person as yourself. Hey, North jersey he's ours douches. yeah he lives up there but he's from the Jersey south. IBC, thanks to you and Natty Ice Kitchen, I now respect Texas. I may even surf Galveston and SPI some day. If any of youse are going to Austin some day I need you to send a selection of meats to someone... a militant vegetarian.
Don't get to Austin often. What's up with these militant veggietarians, anyhow? I loves my veggies, but c'mon... How about militant vagitarians? I could see gettin militant 'bout that perhaps. Please forgive me ladies. I am a male, and therefore beyond help...
To some degree I agree. However, as long as there are young kids fighting authority and speaking their minds without regard for conforming to whatever the social norm is in their time the punk ethos is still alive. I saw Joe Strummer in a interview years after The Clash say there wasn't much difference between punks and hippies other than the dress code. Both were fighting authority, repression, living communal and questioning the powers that be.
I had two VW Westfalias. Just sold my #2 to buy my beach cruiser. I still belong to the bus club and attend camp outs. There were/are two major types of VW owners. Old Punks and Old Hippies. And then the sub-genre of young punk types and young hippie types. We all get along, live communally and and question the powers that be.
So guys like Willie Nelson and Bono would fall into that category right next to Jello Biafra? And by definition, so would Nietzsche, Martin Luther, and Giles "More Weight" Corey.
