What does punk music mean 20 years later under the Bush administration?
Not as much. The role of punk rock in society has changed in that, for all intents and purposes, your mom can list five punk rock bands. She saw Green Day on Saturday Night Live. Punk rock is now spoken here. In 1981, if you said punk rock, the cops came. We had mayors stopping our Black Flag shows. We had religious protests. Back in those days we got real protests like Get the fuck out of our town. Youd have cops coming up, I hate you all. Its scary when a cop says flat out, Fuck you, faggot. Punk music is accepted now. Does that indicate we are more enlightened now? It just becomes a fact after a while. In the 1990s the major labels saw there was money in there punk rock hills, and they all wanted their version of it. Soon Midwest kids were putting Kurt Cobain on their folders. Skid Row and Warrant were looking for a job. It became a standardized norm where all the kids knew what to do at a show. Wolf Blitzer can now tell you, They are moshing. 1 | 2 —— John Esther is a freelance
What does punk music mean 20 years later under the Bush administration?