I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.
To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.