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| Album art from the Vans Warped Tour 2003 Tour Compilation CD; © 2003 Side One Dummy Records |
| I stand corrected again |
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This was my conclusion at the end of the 90s, following a nearly Mohawk-free decade of hi-top fades and long stringy hair but before the Boy Band boom and the emergence of the faux hawk. However, in the early 80s sporting a Mohawk marked you as very dangerous indeed. In the documentary American Hardcore, Henry Rollins describes bringing the new Hardcore attitude to unwitting Punks by smashing them in the face. Many Hardcore musicians say Punk is dead, but Jack Grisham of TSOL, one of their peers, says, “[…B]eing a violent, robbing, grave digging rapist was part of my world. I mean, that was like, ‘This is what we do, man. Yeah, that chick passed out and I pissed in her face, what—so what?’” So make your own decision. |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Punk |
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On the Social Distortion album Live at the Roxy, singer Mike Ness remembers a time when "[y]ou couldn’t walk into a mall and get […] crazy color for your hair. You walked down the street with blue hair you was going to get in a fight with about five angry construction workers or the local college football team, rednecks, or cops.” Pop quiz: Jesse Baggs dyed his hair blue before or after the period in question? |
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