Aging punk rocker still swears - but not near the kids

Reuters ^ | 5/8/07 | Belinda Goldsmith

[qam1]

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[E Rocc]

I'd actually start "Generation Reagan" with 1962, the youngest voters able to vote for him twice.

I actually voted for him, legally, at 17. >:)

-Eric

[ClearCase_guy]

A lot of people who are really into "freedom of expression" don't have much to say. They just lack maturity and self-control and want to get away with whatever they can get away with. "Hey, I'm expressing myself. Back off."

Sounds like this guy has grown up a little. But not a lot.

[dfwgator]

I’ll take aging punkers over aging hippies any day of the week.

[Thrownatbirth]

Pennywise was OK, but I’m a Bad Religion zealot.

[Kenton]

Prematurely old and gray, refusing to admit the folly of his youth.

Growing up's a bitch, huh?

[Mr. Jeeves]

"But I think as long as you stick to the ideals of punk music, you can be a grey punk rocker."

Yes, but to the kids, you'll always be a poseur. 18-year-olds are going to live forever, after all, and have no desire to take cues from some geezer. ;)

[LongElegantLegs]

[TheKidster]

Sell out!!

Nah, just kidding, life is a series of stages, you can fight it or go with it. Moving past one stage into another doesn’t make you a sell out or disqualify what you may have accomplished in an earlier stage, it’s just a natural progression of life. Peter Pan is a fantasy and folks like his dead bandmate illustrate that point.
Experience changes a man for the good or bad and experience makes it impossible to return to one’s youth no matter how hard you try.

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

Pennywise is largely a Bad Religion ripoff anyways.

[Cogadh na Sith]

"Generation Xers are suffering from prolonged adolescence. You have a lot of people aged 40 and up trying desperately to hold on to their youth, shirking responsibility," said Lindberg.

Y'know--completely unlike the baby boomers. Where does he think we learned it from?

[Sam's Army]

Pennywise is as about as punk as my toddler.

NTTAWTT...but it's a misnomer.

[RepoGirl]

Never listened to Pennywise, they may be a good band, but I just lump them in with the quasi punk bands that came out in the 90s. If they weren't around in the 70s/80s, I can't really consider them punk--but that's a personal thing.

But this guy sounds pretty cool. And yes, aging punks are preferrable to aging hippies. The sad thing is, punks tend to die early, whereas the hippies just cling tenaciously to this mortal coil.

Punk moms rule... well, at least I do! ;-)

[T.Smith]

They don’t rule nearly as hard as headbanger dads!!

[RepoGirl]

Okay, before I cede to that comment, I’m going to need a list of bands that qualify as headbangin’ music. For instance: Kiss, Metallica, JP, Maiden and Danzig — acceptable. Poison, Winger, Cinderella...not. :-D

[trillabodilla]

“Generation Xers are suffering from prolonged adolescence. You have a lot of people aged 40 and up trying desperately to hold on to their youth, shirking responsibility,” said Lindberg.

Not all of us- By the Grace of God, I am 38 and have been married for 19 years and at the same job for 15 years.

I went through the 70s and 80s, too, but didn’t learn EVERYTHING from pop culture. We also learned from The Gipper himself.

[Starter]

Sigh. Beacuse of this article, I’m going to have “Punk Rock Girl” stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Punk moms rule...

They don’t rule nearly as hard as headbanger dads!!

True, and my little girl has one of each! :)