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...Yeah. I guess. The Pistols, The Clash. They're all gone. Punk isn't what it used...
...turn back to the skinhead and ask him if he thinks the great punk bands are dead...
...know," he says. "People are down and out, I suppose. Life isn't peachy keen and wonderful. Punk is for people who do and don't think. It's for kids who find total American life boring. I suppose it's motivated by the same things that motivate everything else--greed and lust and all that. I don't know. This is life in the Cynical Eighties. Maybe it hasn't changed...
...turned me on to punk when I was 10," she says. "He was a hippie in the Sixties and got arrested in Harvard Square on a narcotics charge when he was 19. Why don't you talk to that kid over there? He looks pretty lonely...
...rhythms are new, but in fact this vocal conscience comes out of a long tradition. There were activist antecedents in the alternative culture of the '60s, but those were selfabsorbed and, as both Browne and Van Zandt point out, were intermingled with the drug culture. Perhaps inspired by such punk guerrilla bands as Britain's Clash and the Sex Pistols in the late '70s, rock has buried higher consciousness under high conscience. "It's a rebirth of the spirit we had in the '60s, but it is a little more pragmatic," says Don Henley, whose performance of his A Month...