Punk rock never grows old.

Two of my heros growing up :clap:

Anyone read Spray Paint the Wall: The Story of Black Flag . I loved Henry Rollins' Get In The Van so much, I'd like to read this one... I used to have a stack of Maximum RocknRoll's when I was a kid, I wish I kept them...

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Not read that but i love Get In The Van also.

I've not read it but keep looking at it. "Get in the Van" is great and the Black Flag gig I went to gets a mention in the text, sadly for the wrong reasons. BF walked off stage as hoards of skins launched chairs at them! They should have copied Bad Brains, when I saw them the local skins started with loads of Nazi shit, BB leapt off stage and beat the f*ck out of them.

In fact, I can't remember a punk gig in my home town that didn't end in carnage.

Rollins is a great guy. He did a great Invisible Jukebox test for The Wire magazine a few years ago (where a musician is asked to ID some tracks without knowing what they are), and Rollins lets rip about favourite music - electric era Miles Davis, his collection of Einsturzende Neubauten live tapes, listening to Reign in Blood full blast on a car stereo driving down Santa Monica boulevard with Rick Rubin... just great stories...

Running with the Punk theme my next group of pics was gonna be Bad Brains.

His spoken word gigs are great the man has so many fantastic stories and he is such a funny guy.

I can't remember which of his books it is in were he talks about not wanting kids in case they like shit music and he would be forced to make the kids burn the records whilst listening to James Brown. I kind of have that relationship with my kids. Now free from Mrs MTDS we are exploring loads of different stuff rather than having the brain draining radio on.

Bad Brains

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I remember as a teenager i was on holidays for two weeks in Blackpool yes Blackpool :lol:

Anyway i went into HMV and picked up Bad Brains Rock For Light and it blew my young mind. Such aggression and anger mixed with such mellow laid back numbers between all the madness. I always have fond memories of that album and that holiday which Rock For Light became the soundtrack for.