The Sonics I Found Later And That

In San Francisco, Most Of The Older Activists, Especially At Berkeley, Were Very Hostile Towards Punks. The Music, Certainly, Wasn't Nice And Mellow For Them, And Neither Was Our Look Or Our Attitude. While In Vancouver, The Two Most Important Early Punk Bands, D.o.a. And The Subhumans, Were Both Managed By Former Yippie Activists, Who Saw This As A Logical Extension Of What They Were Already Doing.

News Footage Came On The Tv During Dinner Of Bloody Bodies Coming Back From Battle In Vietnam, Or The Race Riots In The South, People Getting Hosed In Selma, Alabama, Or The Biafra War, Where I Got My Name. In My Household, It Was Explained And Discussed With The Children, As A Way Of Educating Us From When We First Started Grade School Why Racism And War Were Wrong, What This All Really Means.

The Sonics I Found Later And That Was Pretty Important

If I Get Even Five Per Cent Of My Ideas Out And Documented Before I Die, I'll Be Lucky. I'm Not In Danger Of Running Out Of Riffs Or Ideas Anytime Soon. They Overwhelm Me And It's Hard To Find Time To Deal With Them.

Punk Is Not Dead. Punk Will Only Die When Corporations Can Exploit And Mass Produce It.