Underground DIY punk has a weirdly good and long lasting international network that has allowed bands from Columbia, Chile, Mexico, the uk, Russia, Japan and numerous other very distant places to come play my backwater part of Canada because of a growing network that has developed since someone thought the clash signing to CBS made them sellouts. This parallels somewhat with international.solidarity but not as much as I’d like as a not anarchists and I’m.sure the punks would still agree. But it’s been here doing it’s own thing since the late 70s and only every had any attention from the mainstream in England in the 80s, the american hardcore circuit sorta criss crosses but can be it’s own thing at times. The early guys who didn’t get rich tend to still be on the more punk side of things and are genuinely still helping out, Ron Reyes, black flags second singer picked my friend up from the airport. This comes with the understanding that if you’re a punk you gotta pitch in, there’s no money so you gotta put up touring bands in your house and feed them balance pay what you can admissions with the real cost of fuel, it’s a whole thing thst a lot of people I know put their lives into for better or worse and I don’t want to see it flattened or commodified cause thst defeated the purpose. Punk belongs to the punks.
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Underground DIY punk has a weirdly good and long lasting international network that has allowed bands from Columbia, Chile, Mexico, the uk, Russia, Japan and numerous other very distant places to come play my backwater part of Canada because of a growing network that has developed since someone thought the clash signing to CBS made them sellouts. This parallels somewhat with international.solidarity but not as much as I’d like as a not anarchists and I’m.sure the punks would still agree. But it’s been here doing it’s own thing since the late 70s and only every had any attention from the mainstream in England in the 80s, the american hardcore circuit sorta criss crosses but can be it’s own thing at times. The early guys who didn’t get rich tend to still be on the more punk side of things and are genuinely still helping out, Ron Reyes, black flags second singer picked my friend up from the airport. This comes with the understanding that if you’re a punk you gotta pitch in, there’s no money so you gotta put up touring bands in your house and feed them balance pay what you can admissions with the real cost of fuel, it’s a whole thing thst a lot of people I know put their lives into for better or worse and I don’t want to see it flattened or commodified cause thst defeated the purpose. Punk belongs to the punks.