The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a lot of food for thought, but people have to remain curious and get their brain activity food from other places besides punk.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.