[kj] Getting in touch w/ jaz and his likelihood of responding

[ade]

LOL! That photo...

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard
Sent: 12 June 2008 21:07
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Getting in touch w/ jaz and his likelihood of
responding


I don't know if there is anything I could call a "punk community" 
nowadays with a straight face.

Having said that, in what I do still think of as the, uh, "punk 
community," yeah, it is the norm. Rob of Amebix, for example, is not 
inaccessible; either he or someone in Amebix emailed me after I 
pre-ordered their DVD, in fact, to thank me, and it wasn't a form 
letter. Didn't Iggy Pop's _American Caesar_ release originally have some 
note inside of it actually ASKING fans to write him by mail, saying he 
would reply to them? This was 1992 or 93, punk was hot shit again, 
seemed like he was trying to bone up on his punk cred by specifically 
putting that notice in the LP's liner notes.

In any event, this graphic pretty much sums up how I feel about the, er, 
"punk scene":

http://www.kvltpunk.com/images/beforeandafter.jpg


-Oliver


Alex Smith wrote:

> At this stage of the proceedings, I'm pretty far removed from the existing Punk community --- is this DIY/egalitarian aesthetic still the norm?

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