Posted on 05/13/2022 4:52:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Punk since ‘78. I’m 53 now.
Ping
These days, I think punk is the least of a 5-year old’s problems.
I was a punk in the 80’s now I’m just an assh*le.
Cockamamie were pretty hard. A real killer band.
On the morning of 1 February 1979, after completing his detoxification program, Vicious was released from Rikers Island. When he arrived in Manhattan, and by chance, he met his friend Gravelle. Vicious asked Gravelle to find him some heroin. Gravelle brought $200 worth of the drug to the apartment of Michele Robison at 63 Bank St., where he joined Vicious, Robison, Beverley, Jerry Only and Howie Pyro. Gravelle said that they sat around doing drugs, and he left at 3:00 a.m. Only said that he and Anne Beverley made dinner, and that he left early, when the drug use began. He noted that Vicious was already nodding off, yet Gravelle said that Robison gave Vicious four quaaludes to help him sleep.Vicious died in the night, of a drug overdose. Robison and his mother discovered his body the next morning.Anne Beverley claimed that Vicious and Spungen had made a suicide pact and that Vicious' death was not accidental. She produced a handwritten note, which she said she found in the pocket of Sid's leather jacket, reading "We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye." According to Deborah Spungen, Vicious wrote a letter to her when he was last hospitalised, saying approximately the same thing. "We always knew that we would go to the same place when we died", he wrote. "We so much wanted to die together in each other's arms. I cry every time I think about that. I promised my baby that I would kill myself if anything ever happened to her, and she promised me the same. This is my final commitment to my love." Spungen was Jewish, and is buried in a Jewish cemetery in Pennsylvania. As an inter-faith burial was not possible, Sid's body was cremated at Garden State Crematory in New Jersey. According to Polk, Anne Beverley asked Deborah Spungen if she could scatter Vicious' ashes over Nancy's grave and Spungen said no. Regardless, Polk said that Jerry Only drove Beverley, her sister, and two of Vicious' friends, to Nancy's gravesite, where Beverley scattered Sid's ashes.
The Rammones were the only Punk I cared to listen to. And early Green Day but I don’t think they count, least not in the punk community.
Hey, you got here before I pinged you. You are fast.
You were nine?
Ramones are considered punk, but I think I read they don’t consider themselves punk.
Star Trek IV Punk on the bus lyrics:
Just where is our future, the things we’ve done and said!
Let’s just push the button, we’d be better off dead!
‘Cause I hate you!
And I berate you!
And I can’t wait to get to you!
The sins of all our fathers, being dumped on us – the sons.
The only choice we’re given is how many megatons?
And I eschew you!
And I say, screw you!
And I hope you’re blue, too.
The dead pool (The last Dirty Harry movie) and the Jim Carrey punk rocker
I had an older brother and sister. The Beatles and Beach Boys are the earliest music I can recall hearing. By the time I was 9 years old I was hooked on Hendrix, Cream, Led Zep, Allmans and Frank Zappa.
“…one of punk’s goals was always to upset the cultural apple cart and make squares question their very being. “
Pseudo hipsters always underestimate “squares”. It’s the only way that can feel superior to someone.
“By the time I was 9 years old I was hooked on Hendrix, Cream, Led Zep, Allmans and Frank Zappa.”
That’s not punk rock. That’s the opposite of punk rock.
“Ramones are considered punk, but I think I read they don’t consider themselves punk.”
Of course they did.
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