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Post by anabdab on Oct 31, 2007 19:27:23 GMT
While I`m drinking and at the risk of being controversial. That punk rock, a load of old bollocks, wasn`t it?
Discuss.
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Post by rickxprey on Nov 1, 2007 0:01:42 GMT
i agree i hated the whole idea of it and never could get up the enthusiasm to stick a safety pin through my face.
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Post by Billyb on Nov 1, 2007 0:49:45 GMT
One thing I've noticed over the years...
Is that - the people who say that Punk is Dead - always think that it "died" the day that THEY stopped being one!!
What do you reckon?
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Post by rickxprey on Nov 1, 2007 8:56:53 GMT
Is punk a phase that someone goes through, or a way of life/attitude or personel perception? do you have to look the part or can you be one with a suit and a mortgage?
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Post by firestorm on Nov 1, 2007 9:16:59 GMT
Well personally I never did the Mohican, bondage trouser thing. Probably because i got into it quite late (77) so I never classed myself as a punk, but it still was a life changer to me. <<Cue simon bates Music>> I had always loved my Music, big into Slade and the like in the early 70's , I went to Uni in 76 , didn't have a good time there really and suffered a bit of depression (tough to identify really when you are 18) so looked back to my comfort zone , beer and music, only to find that the music readily available in South wales (I was at Cardiff) was shite, Listened to a bit of Eagles and the like but the only thing I really took to was Billie Holliday (Told you I was depressed). Came home after failing the first year and had a couple of Jobs I didn't like and was really down. Then I met a mate I hadn't seen for a while and he had the First Clash Album and an early Ramones tape. Honestly it was like a Lick up the Arse and a breath of Fresh air rolled into one. I spent the next weeks dole money on The Clash, In the City and *ahem* the First Boomtown rats LP and sat in my room for days on end . It really perked me up and within a month or so I had a found a city job I liked and wasback in the land of the living. Going to gigs etc gave me a social life etc. At times of stress etc (once a depressive always a depressive)I still find myself back on my bed with an old CD blaring out (usually Inflammable Material or Declaration). Although I did spend rather a lot of money on CD's when my first wife walked out !
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Post by Billyb on Nov 1, 2007 12:02:37 GMT
Is punk a phase that someone goes through, or a way of life/attitude or personel perception? do you have to look the part or can you be one with a suit and a mortgage? Although it obviously means many things to many different people and is notoriously difficult to define... To me - it boils down to a State of Mind/Attitude and the Music... I don't think it matters how old you are or what you wear - I've known lots of people who really "looked the part" but were, really, so staid and boring! I've also hung about with "nutters" and eccentrics - who would never have described themselves as "Punks" but who were an absolute Joy to be with! I must admit I did look really punky when I was younger & there were loads of us round here all living in bedsits. But looking back on it - there were different reasons for that - it was a kind of Tribal thing - banding together against the nasty outside world? I don't think I particularly look like a "Punk" any more - but I definitely still feel like one and I have got a mortgage too...
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Post by rickxprey on Nov 1, 2007 12:39:20 GMT
I can identify with that, i think my family would still have me down as a serial non conformist even today, despite the appearance, job and mortgage...... a far cry from my earlier bedsit and unconventional jobs/work ethic, i dont think of it a phase if it is its lasted 47 years!!!
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Post by anabdab on Nov 2, 2007 16:37:40 GMT
Fair enough, I just wondered that was all.
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Post by rickxprey on Nov 8, 2007 8:30:54 GMT
Speaking of punk attitude, last weekend i witnesed what must have been the largest display of anarcistic behavior, the town of Cheste in Valencia was the venue for a street party of probably 75,000 people, it lasts for two nights and was with out doubt the most unruly party i have ever attended. every shop turns into a bar every side street and square has a huge soud system, as well as hundreds of bikes reving there engines to the limit, most with no silencers, some with exhuasts the size of a wheelie bin huge burn outs both inside shops and in the streets, wheelies and general madness. If your into motorcycles and partying then i strongly recomend a visit next year, ear plugs recomended.
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Post by Billyb on Nov 8, 2007 14:16:43 GMT
That sounds well excellent!
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Post by graham on Dec 6, 2007 11:56:41 GMT
Honestly it was like a Lick up the Arse Urm... Shouldn't that be kick??
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Post by anabdab on Dec 6, 2007 16:27:48 GMT
Each to his own. We don`t judge anybody here.
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Post by graham on Dec 7, 2007 7:18:34 GMT
fair enough...
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Post by Marcus on Dec 20, 2007 21:50:07 GMT
Fair enough, I just wondered that was all. That made me spit my claret over my keyboard. May I be the first to award the Annual SP Award for levity in the face of scalliwagian onslaught? No? Oh..........OK.
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Post by Marcus on Dec 20, 2007 21:51:05 GMT
While I`m drinking and at the risk of being controversial. That punk rock, a load of old bollocks, wasn`t it? Discuss. While we are at it; small metal flat thing thrown in the Olympics: Discus.
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