Pioneer of Punk?lol
At 44 years of age,I'm just daddy nowadays.
Back in the 80's I had a record shop.
UNDERGROUND RECORDS
The only Punk Record shop in South Florida.
I specialized in Punk from around the planet.
Chain stores destroyed me & I went down in flames.
I also sang in a local Death Metal band called "Sacrosanct".
The band didn't last long but was alot of fun.
This page is dedicated to those loyal customers and friends who remember me and the great times we shared during the peak of Punk Rock.
{Top}Me and my pal Flard (John)
{Bottom}My first location,Ugly lol
All communication between people of the same so-called 'subculture' is rendered useless by conflicting personalities of those who gain more satisfaction from the offer of fame and money than from creating a level of interaction and thought within their own kind.
Those with more ability become inherent leaders and are then subject to exploitation for personal gain other than short-lived false heroic status by the media whose job it is to create idols to sell their product to the gullible public.Heroes create money.
The rest of the subculture stick to their media-created restrictions and see their new hero as a part of them.
The fact that he has been made into a hero defines his 'followers' complete lack of originality.
People need heroes to back up their own half-formed ideas.
All original thoughts are regurgitated a thousand times in attempts at self-realization which must consequently fail as the person has merely become an advertisement for someone else's ideas and his own sheep-like mentality.
The subcultures decay in solitude and false ideas of unity that only lead to self-destructive tribalism.
The media help to create this tribalistic paranoia and reinforce it with exaggerated fears and false heroes.
It's a downhill rush into apathetic self-obliteration.
Be Yourself - because there's always someone who wants you to be someone else.