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  1. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Out of this thread? Absolutely. My opinion is Alice in Chains gets unfairly maligned. The indie crowd always gets all butthurt over them. But the absolute fact is they were the first band to break Seattle (Queensryche and Heart didn't come out of that scene). When Facelift hit it was a pretty mega thing. I'm actually a big fan. They weren't punk rock or alternative or whatever at all though, those guys were straight grits. Great band though.
  2. Sounds like his batteries are going dead
  3. John Mayer is the girliest thing in this whole thread
  4. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Yeah I definitely remember him with the Vains. No idea on Silly Killers though
  5. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    User avatar checks out. Did he? I definitely believe you, I just recall it was a brief tenure.
  6. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Indeed he was, for like two gigs or something.
  7. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Duff was a legit guy out of the Seattle hardcore scene. Steve Adler was also into it. The rest not so much.
  8. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Yeah totally get that, I just happen to think there are some damn good songs on there, specifically Izzy's stuff. You could see the wheels falling off though. I mostly disappointed in Slash and Duff. I mean if they wanted to get back and jam out it's totally their right, it just ruins their legacy in my mind. Being one of these nostalgia acts, which his 100% what this is, is antithetical to their purpose. Young and out of control was their raison d'etre.
  9. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Yeah, that was a damn good post. It's something I remind myself of pretty regularly, but I'm pretty fortunate in that I'm not super prone to looking backward by nature. It's one thing that has always befuddled me about the American character, the desperate clinging to youth. The plastic surgery, the drugs, emotional immaturity. It also manifests in the whole things were better back in my day but I also walked uphill both ways to school in the snow nonsense. I guess its self importance, I dunno. I prefer to embrace where I am at any given moment/age than pine away for a past I am misremembering anyway. When G'nR hit the scene in the 80's, it was awesome. Their entire being was basically just waving two middle fingers to anyone possible. Was a pretty solid fan up through the early 00's. Then this whole cash grab "reunion" happened. Bloated old nonsense profiting of peoples nostalgia, with absolutely nothing new to say. Dude who once sang yesterdays got nothing for me, well buddy, it has a back catalog you can restock your empty bank account with. Nauseating.
  10. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    I take it you have never browsed TexAgs. But seriously, it seems to me almost everyone in here is saying punk is alive and well, kids are making noise and having bad attitudes as always, so I'm not sure who you are responding to. I for one don't make any claims on being remotely punk rock anymore, I'm old and lame and full embrace that.
  11. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    In timely things, I was just scanning through Sirius XM, and saw Pearl Jams Animal, and was like oh I dig that song. Immediately after was Kurt saying “I just don't agree with the old punk rock ethos, of like, you have to starve to be an artist,” he said. “It's bullshit." Lol.
  12. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Yeah I mean he was a weird guy, so there's that. I mostly think he was just really, really sensitive. Godspeed. I'm a little jelly, not gonna lie.
  13. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Is it really that weird though? I think most of us have it in some capacity. His biggest imo was reconciling music he liked with the genesis of that music. He was a massive fan of very poppy stuff that was the product of the machine, and had no emotional mechanism to reconcile that. On his music I don't think he was nearly as conflicted. He was pretty alienated by the fame, but he also craved the fame terribly. He could not reconcile those feelings whatsoever. Klosterman really didn't talk much about it in that book that I recall, and frankly he has almost no frame of reference to talk about it, but some of the best things I feel you can read are Greg Prato's oral history Grunge is Dead and Mark Yarm's Everybody Loves Our Town. There is as much first hand accounts of Kurt as you will find, and they shed a lot more light than any of his biographies by far in my opinion. Sheeeeit. That shit would be fucking hilarious man. But I'm pretty sure Cobain would never had been able to figure out how to tweet. Also, Kurt was dead on about Johnny Rotten. I am definitely a Clash fan way more, but Lyndon is absolutely a sensitive soul, almost a doppleganger of Kurt.
  14. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Pearl Jam fans are just the worst. (Not you AL, you're cool).
  15. I mean, communist is still pretty much my all time favorite insult, and I'm obviously not in anyway sympatico with today's right.
  16. Oh it's no hat tip, it's just the Foos have the weirdest sense of timing ever.
  17. G650

    Is Punk Dead?

    Queensland never fails
  18. Fuck that's harsh man lol.
  19. They are going to run out of plot points in the first week at this rate.
  20. Man I miss those days so much.
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