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Blast from the past: How to Look Punk

Patty

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Speaks for itself:
http://www.kompost.ru/files/file53145479.pdf

14 years ago

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Aida

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Thanks for posting this Patty, this was a fun read (though I'm sure hardcore punks wouldn't be happy about their look being described in a way that could take it easily mainstream hehe). I did lots of those things as a kid (even in the 90s we did most of the same things) and still love lots of it ^^

EDIT: Never did the dance "pogoing", ours was called "skanking" (not meant to be offensive heh), or people would just mosh. Or do skanking circle pits.

14 years ago

Patty

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I was thinking the same thing Aida!!!!!! (about mainstreaming)

14 years ago

Janet

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That was awesome. I had some flashbacks reading that. How timely too, I just got a call at the radio station from a guy I used to hang out with back in the 80s. I haven't seen him in 20 years, but he used to gel his mohawk up with Jello. A friend of mine even tasted it once to see if he was telling the truth.

14 years ago

Girl X

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Jello? Janet, that's awesome. I used to dye my guy friends hair green/blue/red with Kool-aid - we never thought of spiking with Jello.

14 years ago

Aida

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Jello was also a popular choice among my friends, as was the plain non-flavored basic gelatin packets. Egg white too, but that was so much messier!

14 years ago

RandomThoughts (Andrea)

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Jello or sugar water was really popular.

That was hilarious to read and so anti-punk! I...wanna beeeeeeeeeeeeee, anarchy!

14 years ago

Desmo April

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That is priceless!

Anyone recognize the model in the center on the cover?

Any guesses?

That was a young Belinda Carlise pre Go-Gos!

14 years ago

CocoLion

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Thanks for sharing, that was fun. I remember in the late 70s punk got a lot of press as the next big thing in rock. The Sex Pistols were on the cover of Time, in 1977 I think. What Patty linked was an LA publication and it could be the LA punks didn't mind being co-opted (to Aida and Random's point). That's just part of LA where commercialization = success. Isn't it interesting how so many of these trends have endured.

14 years ago

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