A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
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 not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.