[kj] RAVEN at the Grammys - REDUX

[Alexander Smith]

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> "Folks in Black Flag with beards? Hah."

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> Yeah, folks in Black Flag with beards:

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> Dez Candena:

> http://www.homepagez.com/louie2x/pics/palm.jpg

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> Chuck Dukowski (far left with `stache):

> http://img.mp3sugar.com/artist/artist_1728.jpg

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> And when I saw Black Flag play the Newport Music Hall in Columbus,  

> Ohio in 1985, Rollins was sporting a full facial hair/long hair  

> look somewhere between Charles Manson and Jesus.

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> What made Punk Rock/exciting: what was being said and how it sounded.

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> What was being worn? Sure, a bit of fun -- but not what was important.

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> Alex in NYC

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> "punks do not also use the word 'mosh.'"

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> On Feb 18, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Alexander Smith wrote:

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>> The debate wasn't about whether or not facial hair looks ridiculous

>> -- the debate was about whether or not "it used to be that a punk  

>> with facial hair was ludicrous".  You seem rather keen to deride

>> those who *dare* stray from yawnsomely rigid Punk Rock tonsorial/

>> sartorial uniformity, when in fact the original point of the  

>> movement/

>> genre/aesthetic was to champion that which disregarded all semblance

>> of uniformity in its entirety.

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>> Alex in NYC

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>> On Feb 17, 2007, at 7:25 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

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>>> If hairstyles, etc., don't matter, then why do these photographed

>>> chaps

>>> make such an effort coiffing them, then? Ask them.

>>>

>>> It's fair game. Get over it. Britney Spears' new head looks like,  

>>> shit

>>> too. Paris Hilton looks like a bird or a lizard (your choice). Laura

>>> Bush has an alien face. Raven looks like Chris Navarro on a bad day.

>>>

>>> And also, punks do not also use the word "mosh." The genre isn't  

>>> dead.

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>>> And the catalogue of bands was impressive, Alex in NYC, but if folks

>>> wanna put so much time into how they look, and they end up looking

>>> ridiculous, they're fair game. Folks in Black Flag with beards? Hah.

>>>

>>> -Oliver

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>>> ------

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>>> Oh for crying out loud...... let's not get all hung up about labels

>>> and hairstyles, shall we?

>>>

>>>

>>> News flash: It's 2007 -- PUNK ROCK IS DEAD.

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