The Punk Rock Journey Story
In the early seventies, bubble gum rock was out the door coming. Several types of music were beginning to blossom; fusion, funk, hard rock, and of course punk rock. While rock and roll had consistently represented rebellious human experience, that mold was taken by punk rock and broke it over its knee. Punk might very well be characterized as the "most deviant element of the human spirit" expressed as audio.
Punk was the first style of songs to simply take raw, furious, atom bomb feelings and place it into audio, while uprising is just not a brand new theory. Groups like the Stooges and Iggy Pop, in the early and mid-1970, The New York Dolls, and The Ramones set the anti- organization mantra to get a generation of teens. These punk rockers were for not giving a damn what mags and media considered of these famed. As a matter of fact, they did not seek media attention, the media sought them. A major theme in punk rock is anarchy or rebellion against anything that seeks to clamp down and compel people to behave instead of thinking for yourself.
This contains, and still included, rebellion against authority, course or caste, religious hatred, pretension, snobbery generally, or other things that imposed too much dogma complete rise against tour and dates on mankind. How can you defeat these idiotic notions? By appealing to the most fundamental element of persons as well as their self interests. People are stirred up by an angry song and gets them think, but it must shock your conscience. While he sang, Iggy Pop smeared peanut butter on himself at one concert. Sid Vicious bled all over and cut himself during one show.
While the tune content was, and still is lively, the music is quick, loud, unrefined, and in-your-face. Guitars squeal, drummers kick over their drums in fits of fury, and also the bass guitar holds it all-together. In the late 1970's and early 80s, bands such as the Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Minor Risk, The Damned, along with the Sex Pistols pushed the envelope which their forerunners licked and mailed without a stamp. Song names like "Too Drunk to Fuck", "Bodies", and crown the empire tour 'New Rose" coped with the rawest facet of human malfeasance. As a matter-of-fact, the previous lead singer of the Dead Kennedy's, Jello Biafra was detained and album art was seized. He stated that his prosecutors were trying to squelch free speech and intimidate recording artists.
Ultimately, while some people do not like punk-rock, it's the freest form of expression on planet earth and we owe some of our civil liberties for pushing back political idiots to their basements to these bands. You will be thanked for your own liberty of expression should you'd like to stand up and salute a punk rocker, simply expand your middle finger in another punk concert you attend.
