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I don't think I've yet to experience anything as incredible as the DIY punk scene in my teenage years. People from multiple communities around Chicago would sho
by pssflops 8y ago
I don't think I've yet to experience anything as incredible as the DIY punk scene in my teenage years. People from multiple communities around Chicago would show up at an abandoned transmission gallery and renovate enough of it to make it inhabitable for a show that night. The dedication was purely out of love for the scene itself and it's a shame I haven't found a parallel in modern adulthood.
- dpc59 8y agoSoundsystem/free tekno culture is certainly keeping the mentality alive. My friends that build speakers and play heavy drum and bass and tekno all used to play in punk, hardcore and ska bands in their teens.
- cpeterso 8y agoNoisey (VICE) has a nice short (30 minute) documentary about the hardcore music scene from NYC in the 1970s to South Korean today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRoEdcBgH2Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRoEdcBgH2Q
- electricslpnsld 8y agoHa, narrated by Tim Armstrong of Rancid fame -- until recently I hadn't listened to them since I was in middle school. Having lived in the Bay Area in the interim it was interesting to hear all of their references to Berkeley, San Francisco, Richmond, Campbell, etc. Half their songs seem to be about Bart stations.
- matt_the_bass 8y agoI just posted another comment about Tim. Check out his newer stuff. You might be surprised.
- adfm 8y agoAnd if you were living in the Bay Area at the time, you probably found out about all the upcoming shows from The List. Web-friendly link –> http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/ http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/
- soundwave106 8y agoNot modern adulthood, but electronic dance culture in the 1990s probably (from my point of view) was possibly close. Of course, I really don't know the early punk scene firsthand, which I heard was way more DIY in say the early 1980s, kind of like what you are talking about, vs when I played in a punk band in the 2000s (this is the impression I get when I talked to some guys who were in relatively known local bands in the 1980s). I also don't know mmuch about the 1960s hippie culture firsthand, of course. But my "impression" of the 1990s rave scene was that indeed it was in between the punk ethos (DIY, warehouse takeovers, some aggressive music styles like gabber/hardcore) and the hippie ethos (bohemian, some psychedelic influence, etc.) At any rate you did get that sense of "for the scene" with the rave community, something that is indeed special when you can find it. For all I know there are some scenes similar to that still, but it's hard to keep up with this sort of thing -- it's hard to reconcile a late-hours youth culture with responsible 9-5 job culture. :( It would be interesting to know for sure what has taken its place.
- bfuller 8y ago>t's hard to reconcile a late-hours youth culture with responsible 9-5 job culture I'm a founder at a startup trying to address this problem.
- skrebbel 8y agoI'm a father of two and a startup founder. I like Detroit techno, and all relevant events _begin_ at 1 AM. The solution isn't a startup, the solution is techno parties that start at 9 PM.