Great interview.newbreedbrian - 8-21-2010 at 11:03 AM
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Originally posted by Discipline
Great interview.
tireironsaint - 8-21-2010 at 12:27 PM
Wow, it's amazing to see an interview that's actually insightful and not just smoke blowing and/or fluff. I've read a LOT of shit about Sheer Terror
over the years and that's probably the best I've seen.Colin - 8-21-2010 at 02:41 PM
great interview, I really enjoyed the part about how easy it is these days for kids to come & go from the scene. I'm pretty young, 26, but growing up
in a small town, you had to be pretty committed to this lifestyle to get into it. You sure as shit didn't have any way to find music online, it was
mid-90's dial-up. We had 1 magazine store in town, which occasionally sold MRR, who bought it besides maybe 3 people, I don't know, but from there
you could order an horribly xeroxed Angry Young & Poor catalog. I was extremely lucky to have a college radio station where a few guys played a
Friday night show of nothing but old hardcore, punk, oi, & ska, which was great when you're in junior high & have no friends to hang out with on the
weekend. Because of this I got to forgo getting into all the mediocre pop-punk crap they sold at the mall & get straight to the good stuff. As far
as any scene, forget about that. I didn't meet another punker until high school, & we were a select few. Coming to school in combat boots & a mohawk
meant having no friends, your old friends were embarrassed to be seen with you, getting your ass kicked on a weekly basis, & somehow having a mohawk
meant to everyone else that you worshipped satan, killed kittens, might be gay, & was gonna do a school shooting. If you really wanted to deal with
all that, then fuck, you must be dedicated. Now years later, it surprised me to meet soooo many people in the city/from a city (where punk was way
more socially accepted) who "used to be a punk rocker". They all said they grew up, grew out of it, realized it was a lot easier to get laid in the
hip-hop scene, etc, that type of stuff.
anyway, I think Paul put it best in this interview that "no, you never were"Colin - 8-22-2010 at 01:46 AM
