[kj] RAVEN at the Grammys - REDUX

[Alexander Smith]

"Folks in Black Flag with beards? Hah."

Yeah, folks in Black Flag with beards:

Dez Candena:
http://www.homepagez.com/louie2x/pics/palm.jpg

Chuck Dukowski (far left with `stache):
http://img.mp3sugar.com/artist/artist_1728.jpg

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.

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

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

Alex in NYC





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



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


>

> 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.

>

> Alex in NYC

>

>

>

>

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

>

>>

>> 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.

>>

>> 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

>>

>>

>> ------

>>

>> 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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