[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
While latin is on the page - you ever felt the mood for some proper Spanish flamenco, ID?
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Absolutamente, Amigo![/quote]
Thought you might! I used to listen to Paco loads when I was doing illustrations for college. Have a little doob, drink a little wine…and the paint would flow for hours. =)
Ok ID, to get a bit of background on you =P
What was it about punk/hardcore music that attracted you to the scene and kept you there? Did you have alot of friends into the same stuff you were schooled/grew up in or were you a bit of an Odd Andy who just kinda found his own way on to the scene?
Obligatory relevancy attached. 
[quote]Stern wrote:
Ok ID, to get a bit of background on you =P
What was it about punk/hardcore music that attracted you to the scene and kept you there? Did you have alot of friends into the same stuff you were schooled/grew up in or were you a bit of an Odd Andy who just kinda found his own way on to the scene?
Obligatory relevancy attached.
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Well, I got into the first wave of Brit punk in '78. I lived in a small Pennsylvania town that was so slow on what was current, so I got into it late… and with only 2 other school mates who were in the know. The Sex Pistols were in the news. But even our small hometown newspaper reported on Sid Vicious/Nancy Spungen when they were making world news.
When I moved out and started college in Philadelphia in '81, I started getting into all the American hardcore bands. There were a couple of halls that featured live acts like Bad Brains, Husker Du, Minor Threat, etc in Philly, and I’d got to these shows which often had 5 bands on the bill - some local punk acts opening for a national act. The Dead Kennedys were the soundtrack of my life on a daily basis, along with Minor Threat. As a starving artist, I was having a great time living and learning about life within that punk community (which had such a great comradery). It was damn near a decade that I didn’t keep up with pop culture - movies, radio hits, etc. And of course I totally rejected the hair-metal scene.
As the 80’s came to a close, I started getting back into the old rock bands I loved - Zeppelin, The Who, etc. But I still love old punk (today’s “punk” should just be called “pun” acts), and regularly listen to Pisols, Clash, Husker Du, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Agent Orange, Dead Kennedys, The Dead Boys, and even a little Johnny Thunders.
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
While latin is on the page - you ever felt the mood for some proper Spanish flamenco, ID?
[/quote]
Absolutamente, Amigo![/quote]
Thought you might! I used to listen to Paco loads when I was doing illustrations for college. Have a little doob, drink a little wine…and the paint would flow for hours. =)
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That actually sounds quite heavenly!
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
Ok ID, to get a bit of background on you =P
What was it about punk/hardcore music that attracted you to the scene and kept you there? Did you have alot of friends into the same stuff you were schooled/grew up in or were you a bit of an Odd Andy who just kinda found his own way on to the scene?
Obligatory relevancy attached.
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Well, I got into the first wave of Brit punk in '78. I lived in a small Pennsylvania town that was so slow on what was current, so I got into it late… and with only 2 other school mates who were in the know. The Sex Pistols were in the news. But even our small hometown newspaper reported on Sid Vicious/Nancy Spungen when they were making world news.
When I moved out and started college in Philadelphia in '81, I started getting into all the American hardcore bands. There were a couple of halls that featured live acts like Bad Brains, Husker Du, Minor Threat, etc in Philly, and I’d got to these shows which often had 5 bands on the bill - some local punk acts opening for a national act. The Dead Kennedys were the soundtrack of my life on a daily basis, along with Minor Threat. As a starving artist, I was having a great time living and learning about life within that punk community (which had such a great comradery). It was damn near a decade that I didn’t keep up with pop culture - movies, radio hits, etc. And of course I totally rejected the hair-metal scene.
As the 80’s came to a close, I started getting back into the old rock bands I loved - Zeppelin, The Who, etc. But I still love old punk (today’s “punk” should just be called “pun” acts), and regularly listen to Pisols, Clash, Husker Du, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Agent Orange, Dead Kennedys, The Dead Boys, and even a little Johnny Thunders.
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing ID! Very similar tale to my own although you have a few years on me it seems and caught the scene when it was at it’s peak, whereas I was just hitting Jr High at the time. But likewise bands like Minor Threat and the DK’s, along with Misfits, Descendants, Chillis and Subhumans were my bread and butter throughout all of the 80’s (bar the occasional Zep, Rush, Jethro, K. Crimson and Zappa).
Tell me, did any band not of the genre stick out to you? When Appetite For Destruction came out for instance…did you find yourself dipping in to modern Hard Rock or was that a strictly “no-go” area?
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
Ok ID, to get a bit of background on you =P
What was it about punk/hardcore music that attracted you to the scene and kept you there? Did you have alot of friends into the same stuff you were schooled/grew up in or were you a bit of an Odd Andy who just kinda found his own way on to the scene?
Obligatory relevancy attached.
[/quote]
Well, I got into the first wave of Brit punk in '78. I lived in a small Pennsylvania town that was so slow on what was current, so I got into it late… and with only 2 other school mates who were in the know. The Sex Pistols were in the news. But even our small hometown newspaper reported on Sid Vicious/Nancy Spungen when they were making world news.
When I moved out and started college in Philadelphia in '81, I started getting into all the American hardcore bands. There were a couple of halls that featured live acts like Bad Brains, Husker Du, Minor Threat, etc in Philly, and I’d got to these shows which often had 5 bands on the bill - some local punk acts opening for a national act. The Dead Kennedys were the soundtrack of my life on a daily basis, along with Minor Threat. As a starving artist, I was having a great time living and learning about life within that punk community (which had such a great comradery). It was damn near a decade that I didn’t keep up with pop culture - movies, radio hits, etc. And of course I totally rejected the hair-metal scene.
As the 80’s came to a close, I started getting back into the old rock bands I loved - Zeppelin, The Who, etc. But I still love old punk (today’s “punk” should just be called “pun” acts), and regularly listen to Pisols, Clash, Husker Du, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Agent Orange, Dead Kennedys, The Dead Boys, and even a little Johnny Thunders.
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing ID! Very similar tale to my own although you have a few years on me it seems and caught the scene when it was at it’s peak, whereas I was just hitting Jr High at the time. But likewise bands like Minor Threat and the DK’s, along with Misfits, Descendants, Chillis and Subhumans were my bread and butter throughout all of the 80’s (bar the occasional Zep, Rush, Jethro, K. Crimson and Zappa).
Tell me, did any band not of the genre stick out to you? When Appetite For Destruction came out for instance…did you find yourself dipping in to modern Hard Rock or was that a strictly “no-go” area?
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I never really answered your initial question fully. To me, punk was the answer to what rock needed at the time (at least to me). Disco was just crap to me, classic rock acts seemed to have lost their anger and scariness, so punk came at the right time. It was loud, rude, raw… everything your parents would be offended by (whereas a decade or more prior, classic rock acts filled that role, LOL). Punk was stripped down and fast like the first wave of the Brit Invasion, or like American rock of the 50’s. Hair metal pushed me even further away from mainstream rock - metal in particular. Only a handful of metal bands kept me in at the time: Metallica, Metal Church, Motorhead (which were really more punk than metal), etc. But honestly, when GnR came out, I really got into them. They seemed to bring back the balls to mainstream rock. Axl Rose irritated the crap out of me, but the band kicked ass regardless. Not long after I started getting into what was going on in Seattle (before it hit big, and before the term “grunge” labelled it). Skin Yard, The Melvins, Tad, Green River, Nirvana, AIC, and especially Soundgarden – all bands that had the heavy sound I liked, but the punk sensibility as well. I never expected “grunge” to take off big in America. But I guess Americans were getting tired of the hair metal crap like I was. When Soundgarden opened shows for GnR, I knew it was bigtime.
Totally spot on regarding the punk scene. For me it was something that I could call my own. My parents listened to what we now call classic rock. My friends for the most part listened to emerging rap or heavy metal. And I just kinda seemed to go with the flow. I played the violin in my youth so I did appreciate a variety of music however one day I bumped in to a guy, a skater, who would change everything. =P
Anyway, I can see the evolution there in your story. You’re quite lucky to have been there at the time when it was all happening and old enough to head out and see those bands you enjoyed! Kudos and thanks for the yarn! 
And yea…one can only put up with Fallen Angel for so long =P
(though I could put on 1984 anyday! ^^)
Lynyrd Skynyrd FTW!
Their sound was gritty, their licks were tasty, and they SOUNDED like they could kick your ass… and usually made me feel like I could kick anyone’s ass!
But comparing them both is almost like comparing The Stones to The Faces.
I do like them both, but for different reasons.
can I play too Push?
canIcanIcanI?
Puhl-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez?
Aw man! So many good ones! Depends on my mood.
Okay, in no particular order my FAVES are:
That Smell
Simple Man
Saturday Night Special
Tuesday’s Gone
Workin’ For MCA
Believe it or not, Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama are NOT on my list. I think because radio killed them for me.
EDIT: Ironically, .38 Special’s radio hits ARE my favorites!
Rockin Into The Night
Hold On Loosely
So Caught Up In You
Back Where You Belong
[quote]pushharder wrote:
BTW, you look like you could fit right in as a member in either band! You got the look (even though you’re from Jersey).[/quote]
I’m taking that as a compliment! Yeah, I think there’s a wee bit of redneck in this ol’ carcass!
lol
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
BTW, you look like you could fit right in as a member in either band! You got the look (even though you’re from Jersey).[/quote]
I’m taking that as a compliment! Yeah, I think there’s a wee bit of redneck in this ol’ carcass!
lol[/quote]
Well, you are Southern New Jersey, right?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
More name these tunes with ID, all honor/no Google:
But my love light seems so far away
And I feel like it’s all been done
AND
I put her out in a town that was so small
You could throw a rock from end to end[/quote]
First one, Steve Miller Band - “Jet Airliner” (played that vinyl until it was worn out… then gave it to my cousin and bought a new one.)
Second one… you got me, Push.
Damn. I’m plumbing the old pipes, but nuthin’s coming up!
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
BTW, you look like you could fit right in as a member in either band! You got the look (even though you’re from Jersey).[/quote]
I’m taking that as a compliment! Yeah, I think there’s a wee bit of redneck in this ol’ carcass!
lol[/quote]
Well, you are Southern New Jersey, right? [/quote]
LOL!
Yep!
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