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Punk at 50 An oxymoron I'd say. I'm tired. I don't have the same energy I did at 24 when I got into punk. 47 is, I've only in recent weeks agreed, uh, umm, middle aged. My wife did the math, double 47 is 94. I think the damb AARP might start writing me soon. Is it like being a wrinkly Keith Richards? Grandpa Chuck Berry? What I do know is age happens. Question is, does it mean I have to give up what I love? I know I always said, "If it's not in my blood anymore, I won't fake it". What's the point anyway? Punk is a pleasure. A passion. A provication, an avocation. An addiction, a way of life. A sense of self. A who I am. It's been odd. Never having a mohawk or a single spiky clothing item or any mineral in my shoes. Yet I've grown very comfortable calling myself a punk since, well, ok, here's the 50 part, seeing the GERMS in 1980 in San Diego. Since doing Bad Compilation Tapes with my pals from 1982 till 1987 and then not having the sense to junk it, keeping it alive and, wala, something that was a now is now an archival element. Then transferring from lowly regarded but deeply cherished (by some) tape, to cd (that mistrusted, "they're stealing part of the music here, I'm sure of it" and overpriced format) to continue with the original and continuous theme: to share great hard to find world punk with punx who wanna hear it, for cheap. The good news is, I haven't totally fallen away from my punk passion. I'm still wigging out in the car, my officially sanctioned joy station that doesn't bug the wife and kid, maybe even more now in the last year due to the cd reissue thang. It was a real eye opener to actually attend a coupla local punk gigs this year. First ones I'd been to really since, well, the 'ol days, as late as 1987 or so. Yeah, I'd been to X and BAD BRAINS, and URINALS. And a pure pleasure it was too, tho X had aged considerably. However, Billy Zoom and John Talley-Jones have been living clean lives or don't eat junk food or have an elixer or a profound faith, but those guys aren't aging like the rest of us. What I did experience was pleasure in seeing local bands and the local scene. It was very much like the old days, in fact, a touch better in that there were more girls (they're soft and nice) and nary a skinhead to be seen (our evil twins). The vibe was the same, the independent spirit, the passion at hearing original, genuine, heartfelt power music, not metal, not rap, not rock per se, but PUNK ROCK. That's right. Real punk rock. It's alive. I'd deduced that by seeing MRR just never stopped the presses. I've admitted all along that anything after 1987, in the world of punk, well, I don't know a danged thing about it. The few exceptions are: The first BIKINI KILL releases. Made me wish again that YEASTIE GIRLZ had been more (re)productive, the HATES' New World Oi! 15 song tape from 1993, whew, still choice tasty punk rock man, the NEIGHBORS live. Ouch. The logical conclusion, all speed, all the time. Every single song. Resulting in an approximate 22 minute set that was fully satisfying to all. Man, get me a video tape of that and I'll be a happy camper. [And from my punk rock friend jeremy toomey, "Not a single 'crusty' or 'grindy' thing about it, of course...the
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NEIGHBORS always were straight-forward HC." Thank you jeremy, well said.] Well done boys. It's true. It's the speed. It's all part of the punk pleasure. And tho I've slowed down physically, my response to beautiful, musical, punkical speed has not abated. Now, one things certain, there's no such thing as, "old school rules, new stuff sucks". Quality will tell. Whether it's teens crankin' out good stuff today (which, uh, I haven't actually heard much) or old guys still honoring the past by, well, playing it with the same heart, with a bit 'o seasoning of age as in seeing RAW POWER this summer. Whew. Even balding, and I don't mean shaved, the power, the pleasure, the fun, the joy, the speed, it was (almost) all there. As good (almost) as the 23 times I had the honor of seeing them on their 1984 tour. Man alive, was that them at their peak or what? In 2001 I had to tolerate 20% of metalish flavoring. But it didn't spoil the feast. In '84 it was Davide on guitar, brought to the U.S. with the band for that tour. He had his little metalish licks but it didn't sour the milk. I guess the point is: All great music isn't frozen in time, unable to be created afresh. Do you see new lively viable 50's rock being recreated? It's non existant I think. Actually tho that swing and rockabilly and ska stuff is honorably reinvented and kept honestly alive. The PALADINS still got it, blazing rockabilly with a ferocious live bass. The SPECIALS honored ska with their incredible lst lp. I generally like those big suit bands bringing back to life the real spirit of the 40's big band, but slackered up a bit to feed the modern sense. It's perfectly possible for punk to be real in the modern day. And that could be 100 or 1,000 years from now. I'm pretty sure. Jimi still rocks my world. It's just we're not gonna hear anything new anymore. It doesn't mean it doesn't swing. BAD BRAINS, MINOR THREAT, early BLACK FLAG, MEAT PUPPETS lst 7" (you have gotta hear that searing speeding thing, nothin' like their punkin'greatful dead lps thang). I've found I can live in the musical past. And sample from the buffet as I choose. "I'm a bit burned out on MINOR THREAT this year, I think I'll save it for next" [Tho I can't believe I'd ever say that. But that's why God allowed SECOND WIND to come into existance, so we could hear junior versions of more MINOR THREAT, sorta, when we, well, kinda burned out on MINOR THREAT. (I can't believe I said it twice). His brother sounds so like him, the music does too. It's a treat when you think about it. No, don't think, listen eh?] I've decided that what's genuine is real is enjoyable and no apologies necessary. I leave the slamming and the youthful passion to the punks of today. My spirit, and that of the many old punks I know who also haven't stepped out of the way of the oncoming train of time seemingly colliding with punk, clearly, a youth sport, has remained true. All I know is when I hear CHEETAH CHROME MOTHER(hush your mouth)s live from 12-4-83, it performs the same magic to me that it did then. It's distilled by time. Time is unalterable. But that fact that it's been punking time since 2 decades ago and it hasn't bothered to quit, well, it's still a fine time to have and share the joy that you (if yer a punk) know to be so real: that pleasure that we don't get in any other musical form. Just this one. And part of that pleasure,
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time has taught me, is the connection with others who have the same musical drive I do. To punk. Maybe less so now. No more clearly evident than when I try to read the tiny printing of my reduced by 6 times listings of my live and demo tapes. I can't believe I used to be able to read that stuff. Now reading glasses are necessary. I'll admit it, I've even used a, don't look here, it could get ugly, a magnifying glass!! Yes, it's true. It's all true. I admit it. I'm older. Are apologies necessary? I rather think not. (Not that anyone's asked, thanks folks). I just wanna know, what happens when the kids, and that's anyone under 22 or so, grow up? When they're middle aged? Well, if the pattern follows, most will step aside, like most of our punk peers did. I don't know where they go on to. Samba?, avant gard?, jazz?, world beat? (none of which is shameful). But it's down right funny to see me and my peers sometimes, pot bellys and thinning hair and less vim. At a gig. Or thrashing out to that punk library of tunes. But, it's still sweet folks. I can tell you from here, don't worry. Your love of this joyous, rollicking, smarty pants music may well still be with you 20, 30 years from now. Your family may not understand. But, they barely do now right? And when, or if, they ever do acclimate to it and see it for what it is: one of the (generally) finest groupings of people bound by a music/ethical/passion/ entertainment/thought provoking progeny of rock, well, the only question you'll end up being asked, as the years march steadily on into the future will be: "When are you gonna grow out of that kid music?" I'll get back to ya as soon as I know. Punk at 50 #2 Punk at 50 One of my great joys in recent years was attending a local gig with young youth (my favoite, possibly band name ever, what's all the youth bands? YOUTH OF TODAY, YOUTH KORPS, YOUNG YOUTH, YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH, YOUTH BRIGADE, YOUTH BUNANI, YOUTH MANIFESTO, and i'm sure there's tons more i don't know or am unaware of - don't forget kids, if it's post 1987, i virtually don't know about it, punk wise) attending, of course, and playing, well, of course. But, my old pal, Tim formerly of AMENITY and HOUSE OF SUFFERING, has a band and i came to see them. But they played like too early (ok, i arrived too late) and i missed them. However, the real joy was realizing that in conversation with Colin (who's been reviewing all 27 BCT tapes, if u want an email copy of the reviews just email me, he's good at it and it's fun to see what a 19 year old thinks about music we released 15 to 19 years ago) and his pal Matt, that with Tim and I we had punx there ages 19, 20, 37 and 47. Four generations represented. None there cuz someone told them to or, just incidentally, to check on the security of their teenager. We was actually there to punk rock. I'm sorry, did i introduce myself? I don't know what nonesense Enterruption may have blathered about me, likely that i was the only person in San Francisco carrying a pillow (30 years of a bad back, one of the worst parts? missing out on all that slamming in the 80's!), though it did help in identifying me at every used record store fiend's nirvana: Amoeba Music, both of them, S.F. and Berkeley, I was in total pig heaven. And now there's a
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massive L.A. region store. A pilgramage will be made by fellow vinyl/tape/cd/video junkies from peaceful, chronic layback San Diego. Uh, where was i? In 1981 my pal Dave and I loved punk rock and wanted to do something cuz we had the same DIY bug that, what? most punx do? (as opposed to non punx who commonly are pasty McDonald's consuming minimum thinking automatons consuming big businesses' mass disgorged sanitized pap!) We did some zine stuff but wanted to do the music while acknowleging that we had zero inclination to be in a band cuz we were musical dullards. Comps transfixed us. Still do. He and i collected vinyl and tape comps like crazy. Still some of my favorite records and tapes in my house. Well, we formed Bad Compilation Tapes to make hard to find music easy to get for cheap prices to punx around the world who wanted to hear it. Took us almost a year to think about it. We ended up releasing 170 bands from 17 countries on 27 tapes and 2 7"s and 2 lps and loved every minute of it. On the same trip we did the RAW POWER U.S. tour in 1984 and INDIGESTI in 1986. Christopher took over in 1984 when Dave bowed out and then we collapsed in a heap about 1986. Turns out just cuz the tapes stayed in existance, the music continued to be available and now the best half of that 28 hours of music is being released on 10 cds with SCHIZOPHRENIC RECORDS, HUMAN STENCH and ENTERRUPTION. What a joy. Uh, well, nice to meetcha. So then, some punk, all totally punked out, hails me and turns out my foggy memory forgot our time spent punking about 9 years ago but looks like the BAD BRAINS i (and i) exposed him to hooked him and he turned to the punk way. Which, by the way, have you noticed that most youth who are into punk are among the finest citizens on the planet? No kidding. All but the usual 5%. I'm pleased. Thoughtful, into other kinds of music too, usually, typically concerned about world issues. And don't forget, Straight Edge has gotta be the only youth movement invented by youth that continues to exist today with NO help or exploitation by big business. I'm impressed. Tim asked me if there were other punk progeny (know what that word means? Has the public school system done you much good? It's one's spawn pal!) out there. What I've learned is that for every contact by mail (that was the olden days) or email, when someone tells me something about BCT and how it impacted them, that ususally being that they got to hear for the first or so time tons of foreign and even other obscure U.S. punk, that it represents many others who never make contact. It's a delight to know that BCT has gotten into the hands/ears of at least 10,000 world punx (just a rough guess). Sharing the music is the pure pleasure. Still is. I saw LINK WRAY about 2 years ago in San Diego's great bar club, the Casbah, run by the great Tim Maze who put on 80% of the punk shows in town in the early & mid 80's. Thanks Tim. There were about 3 guys there in their 50's and one guy who had to be, literally, in his late 60's or even possibly 70's. There's a chance he was someone's dad or something (grandpa) but these older guys were all rockin' out. They was happy. I was too. There were 2 guys in their 20's in the band. And Link was rockin' it to the bone, all joy, all fun, a cousin of punk. I wanna be that old man in 25 years (that seems so incredibly close?!!). Seeing RAW POWER there this summer was old punk night.
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Seeing RAW POWER there this summer was old punk night. A Monday night but we'd figured it out. Punx i hadn't seen in 15 or so years. As punk as ever. As filled with the same old pleasure and havin' a grand time that evening. We couldn't turn back the clock and be younger. We could play the records and tapes of that old time punk rock and enjoy it from the fresh moment it was created, preserved for posterity and, clearly, many generations to come. In fact, i've said for many years, though punk has been marginalized cuz it's too darn hard for most people, there will be a time, assuming humanity makes it, when maybe even the masses will discover punk. They were able to consume OFFSPRING, BAD RELIGION, NOFX, RANCID and GREEN DAY. It tells us there's a hint of real punk ability in the masses. Let's face it, the output from those bands (except BAD RELIGION's lst 7" and lst lp in 1980 or so) are and always have been less than say CCM or WRETCHED (Italy) or MOB 47. But, God bless 'em. It tells us, it at least tells me, that some generations into the future, the amazing music that was made and recorded in the late 70's and early to mid 80's will one day be enjoyed, maybe in space ships, maybe on planets where humans live who have never seen earth, and they'll be diggin' this stuff. What lets me know that is so many of us punx (that's you and me kid) have found bone deep satisfaction in so much quality punk over the years. As ever, quaity will tell. Not that i'm aching for it to happen. I just believe it will. I just like seeing people get a musical boner over BAD BRAINS or MINOR THREAT or pre Henry BLACK FLAG. There's just no other way to find that satisfaction than from that music and the music made by 1000's, literally, of other great bands of that time. peace out Punk at 50 #3 Punk at 50 What good is age without wisdom? Not much. Thus, the following: -Never fart in the shower (about the best advice i've come up with so far in this life). -Don't waste your time listening to lousy punk rock or poorly recorded music. Just ok recorded is ok, but there's such a ton of punk out there, past and current, just don't get stuck listening to stuff that's horrible. Please don't misunderstand this. Punk, of it's very nature, by definition, isn't recorded in expensive sound studios. I'm just saying, there's so many punk releases and live and demo and comp tapes, there's no reason to settle for 2 of 10 rating of recording quality. That's all. I actually revel in knowing that what bugs some rich person with high fidelity equipment who only listens to ultra clean recordings, we thumb our noses at them and fart in their general direction too (Monty Python). -Follow the tenents of punk as laid down at the Conference of Worldwide Punx in Antwerp, 1980. If you were too young to be there, you likely didn't hear about it. If you were into punk back then, it was likely kept secret from you so punx could continue to believe punk was a spontaneously generated, self created non directed, independent moment in time. So an infrastructure was provided? Whatdaya gonna do about it? It's too late now. The Conference was a success. All because of these carefully thought out rules. To wit: A There are no rules. B Here are some suggestions.
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Here are some suggestions. Do whatever you want. Only. If you feel like cooperating with others, feel free. That is, however, with no obligation. Don't lie, cheat or steal to or from other punx. Do It Yourself. Also means, in conjunction with others of the same persuasion or passion. Thus, cooperatives exist. Example is the 20 or so year old MRR collective of voluntary punk workers in the name of the sharing and creation and funneling of info from through and to the world punx who have interest in it. There was another grand project in Holland, Starlplart I believe. Did a hot zine. GDHC in Italy, did gigs, tape comps and more. Go on a punk tour, 1 day, a week, a month, a summer. If at all possible. This is a requirement and if you fail to meet this requirement which will bring you tons of joy and trepedation and exlorative urban knowledge, learning each local scene and it's unique features then you must turn in your punk membership card at the desk. You don't have to be in charge to have fun. You don't have to avoid leadership to have fun. Find your place. If often varies, depending on the group. A band is like a family. Often their best material is their first material. Just cuz some bands end up doing yukky music, doesn't mean their first demos/records/ gigs, weren't great (WRETCHED - Italy, ANTI-CIMEX, DISCHARGE, MAU MAU's - UK, COCKNEY REJECTS, WIRE et al) Our cousins by marriage, rap (Country & Western - dad, never married mom - the blues, but they had mostly beautiful children. Of course, we don't usually mention it but rap is the bastard step child of mom and her first lover, jazz.) got consumed by big business and we see the resulting carnage: coopted music for the masses, posturing, wealth wasted, fake boobs, denigration of half the population, focus on violence and intoxication for the other half, regurgitating the venom of the ghetto and slimeing suburban kids throughout the land and the planet with it, all the while coated in sugary sweet dancable music. Punk did not. It was always too hard and obnoxious for big business and the masses. Thus, we have been left to our own devices with the resulting consequences and privledges: we owe ourselves to no one. We do it cuz we love it. We don't make a living at it. We don't compete with each other. The problem is, there's only 500 or 1,000 or 3,000 pressed of something. If you missed out on it, it's gone baby. This occurs due to limited resources, limited funds and no real desire by the vast majority of punx to make a living off of you. It's day job heaven. This is being created at home, after work, all over the world. This leads to the idea of punk record collections. Punx are not record collectors just to collect them. It's only because they are limited pressings that we find ourselves racing, struggling within our individual financial abilities, to gather the finest punk available. The true sign is, will you accept it on tape. And, face it, much of what's available, demo and live tape wise, is only available on tape. But there's that special feeling of a record in your hand eh? There's just no denying that.
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of a record in your hand eh? There's just no denying that. Thus, record collecting. Cuz we can't get it at Tower Records. We do a lot of trading amongst ourselves, attempting to beat the natural problem of high prices once something goes out of print. Limited supply leads to increased willingness, by a few who really want it, to pay a higher price. It's the laws of capitalism. However, punx make efforts to subvert those laws. Trading is one way. Trading can happen easiest when we release something, then we have something more to trade. This then brings up bootlegs. Good or bad? Well, the conference decided that, as opposed to big business criminals who simply copy a big seller and pawn it off as the genuine article, punk bootlegs actually fill a void. Due to the inconsistency of labels even continuing to exist as the years go by, when some music is wonderful, it's mighty nice to not just have to have a multi generations old tape of it. So, crank out a few hundred copies of the item again on vinyl or cd. So later generations can enjoy it in that format considering (sadly to me) that tape copies just don't do it. It's fine and has it's place, but who considers themselves having an item when all they have is a tape copy of it? Naw, we wanna have that 'real' item, that real format and release in our hands. Bootlegs: doing punx a favor. Our evil twins, racist skinheads (I understand there's some who are not racist, they just like ska, God bless 'em) bring violence and misperception to punk. Punk suffers as a result. We're the good twin. We just don't dress like it. There's no agism in punk. That I can see. In 1983 I was helping a punk in Tijuana put out an issue of a zine he was doing. (He was in ANTI SYSTEMA SOCIAL). We looked up for a moment noting I was 29 and he was 14. And then we shrugged it off. It had no meaning to our voluntary cooperation in this mutually satisfying punk path we were on. Anarchy is not, of itself, evil or wrong. Do whatever you want. I think the focus is on Do. Capitalism and democracy are our outer shell we live in. A revolution, from punk at least, will not be toppling it. We take advantage of the tools and precepts from each. Here's an example of the perfect blend of anarchy and democracy. So much so, it's very hard for us to grock (comprehend) it: In the movie The Emerald Forest a white man tells the leader of an Amazonian tribe, "Just tell your men to do it." The leader replys, "I cannot. When one is the leader in our tribe, as soon as he tells anyone what to do, he is no longer the leader." Punx have sorta gotten by that way. No one tells us to do these punk projects we do. Our families don't make us do it for profit, we don't have a boss telling us to do it, we don't do it for fame (per se, i'd say). We do it cuz we can, cuz we want to, cuz it feels good, cuz the results make us happy and it makes others happy to consume the fruits of our labor of love. We know if we don't do this or that punk project, it likely won't get done. Punk has achieved a sort of anarchy within the shell of the non anarchistic world we all live it. I wonder if punx were able to operate in Somalia when true anarchy apparently existed there for years in the 90's. Whew? The wild west, guns, clans vs. clans. And no infrastructure, no police, no laws, no banking, very
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infrastructure, no police, no laws, no banking, very little business and apparently no fun. Cuz trust couldn't exist. That's the beauty in punk. Trust exists, generally, cuz we're only working together voluntarity, and with the same goal in mind. And if our paths part, they part. Little harm, little foul, possibly just some naturally human hurt feelings. We just go on to the next project or drop out of punk activity. Can you imagine 2 VAN HALEN (any big rock band) fans. They have little reason to do anything except buy the records from the store. Maybe join a fan club. That's it. Go to the gigs. Punx, left to their own devices by big music businesses (thanks we didn't need or want you anyway you weasles) get it done ourselves. And look at our output. Whew. Enormous. Just, the cost is, limited pressings. Reviews in tons of indie zines and comps give us a hint or a taste of what we might like out there and then we make an effort to track it down, typically trading with someone across town or across the globe. Or buying at some indie record store. A punk can have a family and a career or live under a bridge. When you start some listing by using the alphabet, you must complete that list using the alphabet or, turn your punk membership card in at the desk. The world mail system, xerox machines and tape decks (ok, and the modern marvel, cd burners) in conjunction with the many world punk zines and the ol standbys in particular, MRR and maybe Suburban Voice et al, provide a way for the average punk affectionado (i can't get myself to say fan) to be part of the great punk creation. What do we have: punx in bands, doing zines, releasing tapes, cds, records, putting on gigs, being part of punk cooperatives, doing labels, doing indie distributing, working at indie record stores, doing art/layouts for various projects, making and distributing flyers (which Enterrupted showed us in a recent issue how much of a lost great art it is), having out of town punx over for an evening, corresponding with and trading with and doing projects with punx across town or across the globe (made so much quicker, i must say, with email, whew! What used to take weeks and months now takes days or less. Ouch. Girls are soft and generally nicer than us guys. But, for some reason, they ain't into this stuff like we are, in general. It's probably cuz this stuff is so hard. So, if you find a punkette who's into this stuff, man, go for a long term relationship which, by the way, is what girls want; relationship. We know what boys want. Girls trade sex for romance, boys trade romance for sex. And then in a long term marriage, ideally, it's the sex that's part of the glue to a good marriage. As well as mutual respect and giving of oneself to and for the other. Really. The Punk Conference did discuss this in detail and in a suprisingly mature fashion. Selfishness does not rule. It's immaturity and it hurts in relationship. My point? If yer gonna get into a long term relationship anyway, it's so much sweeter if you happen to get a gal who's into punk. Oh, so much. But, not crucial. If you don't, just agree to not play your precious (it is) music around her, unless yer punk pals are in the home, and go ahead and attend the STEELY DAN concerts with her and try to find something you both dig (my wife and I had mutual musical frenzy and pleasure at the 3 STEVIE RAY VAUGHN gigs
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musical frenzy and pleasure at the 3 STEVIE RAY VAUGHN gigs we were blessed to see, hot doggie!). If your parents don't understand about the leather jacket and the spiky hair and the rattling music, introduce them to the beauties of punk: 95% of the kids (and us old guys) are real sweethearts. As Martin Sprouse said, it's a sort of positive negativism. Don't know how, but it works. Pity the sad folks who never get to dig hard on CCM, CLASH, SEX PISTOLS, DK's, FEAR (I could sing 'more beer' and their other beer songs all day, they're so great and i'm not into beer) OLHO SECO, INDIGESTI and many 1,000's of other brilliant punk bands since 1974 i guess (thank you RAMONES and PAGANS). Is there nothin' like a live gig of a great punk band or 2? No. Slamming and mosh pits have been coopted by many of the masses. God bless 'em. Metal took many of the great elements of punk through METALLICA: speeded up the music, focused on indie, encouraged taping at their gigs, etc. Take my word for it, me and other old guys (47-49) will tell ya, just cuz our bodies are aging, doesn't mean we don't continue to find deep satisfaction listening to many of the world's great bands, live, on record and on tape. Yum. You may find that, with the amazing music and the very cool foundational aspects of punk, another fundamental piece of being punk, of being into punk, is the relationships one developes. Often fleeting, often lasting over the years. It's a heart soothing joy. You may already have discovered this. PUNK WILL NEVER DIE! It just doesn't seem to go away. We won't let it. It's too real. It belongs to us. There's way too much music created to just junk it. And we don't have anyone to answer to. And there continue to be more youths born to this world. And, as ever, a handful of them find, stumble on, this disjointed, disaffected, vibrant, ever morphing, still alive world of punk. Yow.

Ok kids. I ran out of advice. I'll see if i can think up any more for the next article. Meanwhile, God bless and take care of yourselves. Life is fragile. War just won't go away, somewhere on the planet. And all we can do in this life is affect those in our own sphere. I've seen many many punx do that in their lives. With the music they've created and/or shared, with the joy of living life fully, filled with delight at the tunes and attitudes that make us smile, i'd say, more than the average shmo. It's a good thing. chris bct-

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