[kj] rebellion?

[Karen Weil]

Not a ramble -- I for one would have never imagined any such scene existing in the DDR. 
Glad some things have changed, including that we don't have to hear Stryper. ; - ) 


k.w.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Harper 
  To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [kj] rebellion?


        Well, I gather many people had a rough time growing up in the DDR. It's also worth remembering that being a punk/metal fan or a Christian were both excellent ways of rebelling against the state back then and perhaps a little less dodgy than being a fascist...

        When I was in Jena last year my brother took me into a pub where Christians and metallers used to hang out in the 1980s, both groups being generally unwelcome elsewhere and under threat of being regularly busted. It's a little odd to find a place where metallers and Christians hung out together (doesn't happen much over here, not since the days of Stryper ;- ) but apparently it was a mutual support thing. Very interesting.

        Sorry for the ramble there.

        Jim.

        --- On Tue, 11/8/09, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

          Sounds like he had a shit time growing up in East Germany under the Stasi and being a Nazi was the perfect way to rebel against them as fascism is the idealogical opposite
          to comminism, in theory).  




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