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How'd you frst get in to punk? What did it for you? Did you used to listen to Good Charlotte but then smarten up? What drew you to punk?

It seems like my whole life I was surrounded by punk music and didn't notice it. My father likes to play old clash and undertones tapes in the car. Up until the sixth grade I was pretty indifferent to them. It was my dad's music, it's not supposed to be cool. In the sixth grade I saw this kid wearing a germs shirt. For some reason I decided to check the band out. I had never checked out any other band I saw on a t-shirt. I think I wanted to impress him. To make a long story short, I got a few germs cds. I talked to people who liked them online and they told me to check out such and such band. I digged it because they weren't afraid of emotion or take a political stance. They said what they thought and if you didn't like it you could go ******** yourself. Too many muscians are afraid of talking about politics unless it's the cool thing that year ( You kids now what I mean. -cough- P.Diddy.) In punk music you were expected to talk about politics.

But, I still liked the thought of what they stood for and all of that. After that, in some strange way that I do not know how to describe, I just started with anarchism. Out of hate, anger, bordom, and a love of tagging up my teachers cars (with spray paint, none of that shaving cream crap).

My dad gave me his old records..its just grew from there..

It was a growing thing. At first my dad introduced me to The Pouges, The Dead Milkmen, and FEAR. Then as I grew I found out about the Ramones and The Sex Pistols. Then I wasn't like a "Punk" or anything I had just heard the music. When I reached 10 I thought I was so "punx rock" litsening to Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, etc. and then I saw The bassist of GC wearing a DK shirt. I naturally checked it out it wasn't till 2005 I heard em but from then on I was just kinda liked other stuff and not The "Punx rock bands" I litsened to. Finally My Dad bought me THAW for the PS2 and it had alotta punk music on it. The opening is California Uber Alles. When my dad said cool The Intros Dead kenedys I became interested and then looked up some punk. Then in late 05 my dad showed me Punk Attitude a documentary of punk since I showed intrest. That's where it flew off and I was officially into punk.

Basicly my dad got me into ******** Punk...How badass is that?

i guess you can say ive kind of been growing very slowly since 7th grade. like alot of people at my school, i thought punks were emo goth screamy music people. when we went on a class trip in 7th grade, i was kind of like a little nerdy kid(and i still kind of am, but then i looked like it)so noone wanted to room with me... so this dude who was into punk at the time roomed with me because he had noone to room with, and my only other friend at the time roomed with me too. he let me listen to the sex pistols. i dont particularly like the sex pistols, but it got me curious. by the time i was halfway through eighth grade, i was into good charlotte, simple plan, ******** in 6th grade i even liked avril lavigne and sum 41. it just kind of went from there, by the time the summer of 8th grade came i was into real punk bands, my favorites then who i thought were absolutely like the gods of punk were anti-flag, and rise against. now i realize that wasnt the case, but to this day they still remain some of my favorites. youll find that my ideal is actually more developed than you might think for someone whos only been into punk for a year and a half, simply because i find myself bored quite often, and this may seem a little strange but ill have arguments with myself in my head about certain issues. im just saying now id be perfectly equipped to have a debate with any adult and feel perfectly comftarble. getting into punk hasnt really been a major thing with me, it kind of just happened, and thats it. i also dont call myself a punk because i feel labels cause division, im am me, and i dont care to do things simply because they are punk and the same thing applies to music. but ya this is already getting long so thats the deal with me

dude sorry bout your friend... my and my friends are really close and i dont know what id do if something happened to any of my close friends

thats cool

Hmm... I guess you can say that it all started in my Freshman year. I was a little gothish kid. Not the hottopic kind, but I'd fancy to say True Goth. I wore my tight black jeans, my black Cure and JTHM shirts frequently along with my converse. I was never into the newer goth, I was a very big fan of Bauhaus, Alien Sex Fiend, London After Midnight... blah blah blah.

So I was dating this very wonderful girl at the time who ended up breaking my heart (we got back togeather later and were togeather for a whole 2 years... wow stare ). But my best mate Alden, I was depressed and I asked him what I should do. He told me to listen to "this". "This" was a mix of Dead Kennedys, Misfits and older Greenday. I never cared for the greenday but as soon as I heard the energy of man with the dogs I was hooked.

I began searching for more of this punk music. I collected cds like man. The Exploited, The Dead Kennedys, The Subhumans, The Casualties, Anti-Nowhere League. I didn't really need to change the way I dressed all that much. I certainly began to wear more color though.

meh, and in october I discovered the world of Oi and in April I got cut in. So yeah... nice progression up the ladder of self respect wouldn't you say? Even though I'm a skinhead I love punk. I hang out with way more punks that I do skinheads.