[kj] Clip of US punk documentary/riots

[Neil Perry]

Hmm, our 'rules' were a little more harsh. From what I can remember:

You got a whack around the ear in the playground from bigger boys
if you:
Listened to The Jam (bloody mods)
Listened to Sham 69 (bloody joke band)
Listened to The Clash after the first album (they'd sold out by
touring the US a lot)
Wore punk clothes/badges but still had neat/long hair
Listened to The Damned after the first two albums (no longer
'proper' punks)
Listened to PiL after the first album (Johnny Rotten had turned into
a 'commie' - somebody actually said this to me once)

There were other similar rules, but they changed so quickly that you
were better off listening to what you wanted to listen to and learning
to run away fast.

N

"B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote: A friend and I once tried to compile a list of the "Top 10 unwritten 
rules for punks." Here they are:


1) One was that you are not allowed to wear your own band's shirt on 
stage, unless you are The Ramones. I guess Motorhead gets a pass on 
this. But I saw The Damned once playing wear t-shirts of their own band 
it just looked dumb.

2 ) Another: You should not wear a shirt of the band whose show you're 
attending. Many violators on the KJ XXV Gathering DVD. Hah. Except the 
gnarly hesher dude (A LABEL) in the Sepultura shirt up front. I still 
envy him for how close he got, though, even if his hair would have 
bothered me while he was headbanging a bit much during "Wardance."

3) Punks do not use the word "mosh."

4) Punks do not use the word "hoodie."

5) If you and some friends are traveling together to see a punk band, 
and you're wearing, say, a particular Discharge shirt, and you pick up 
one of your your friends in your car and he happens to be wearing the 
exact same shirt -- well, he has to go back inside and change his shirt 
to something else.

6) Punks do not wear white belts. Now, I have personally liked bands 
that wear white belts, but it's in spite of the white belt-age, not 
because of it.

7) Punks do not wear "girl jeans" and try to have hair like Luke 
Skywalker in 1977 on purpose, at the same time. Just no way. This means 
you,

8) No drum machines if possible. (I violate this one a lot. I like 
several bands that use'em but I prefer the real deal and I think Big 
Paul was amazing.)

9) Punks do not have goatees, especially if braided. They do not try to 
look like they are going to a Blackstone the Magician convention, or a 
Dave Navarro homage.

I like bands and have friends that defy some of these rules, but these 
are some rough guidelines to go by. In the end, my friend and I couldn't 
come up with a full ten. I guess that one could be Alex in New York 
City's "NO LABELSSSSS!"



-Oliver


Neil Perry wrote:

> Lol - it's true. When I was at school I remember all the 'punks'

> were engaged in a constant fight about who was punk and who

> wasn't - who had the 'right' hair, who used to be a proper punk but

> now wasn't because they'd been caught listening to the 'wrong'

> band, why some bands had been punk but now weren't anymore

> because they'd broken some mysterious rule... ah, good times!

>

> N

>

>

> */Leigh Newton /* wrote:

>

>     I've always loved the fact that so-called punk rock has more rules

>     and regulations than any other kind of music.

>

>     Leigh

>

>

>


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