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well i was just reading and i came across this and it amazes me so yeah im putting it in here :
2)what personal experiences influenced ur playing, and how pg 99 evolved for document to document?
like i said, when you are young and you know things are hard, be it.. no matter how petty they look when you are older. you need to do something. i started playing punk music because it moved me. it made me feel like i was doing something that everyone around me who didnt approve.. could not touch. it was certainly a defiant thing. there was no trend. "punk" as we know it today did not exist when i was 15. it was not cool to be playing it. i remember if me and my friends saw anyone in the area who had a dead kennedys shirt on wed go up to them and introduce ourselves and be like, whoa.. are you into punk rock !? we were excited and we wanted to know everyone who liked the same stuff we were into because that usually meant we could get along. people didnt wear shit like that back then, it wasnt all that common when i started playing music. nirvana had just exploded so kids were really into the grunge thing, which was way fucking cool. because.. it seemed real. for once.. it was ok not to wash yr hair and where clothes that werent designer and had holes all in them. because of bands like nirvana/mudhoney/dinosaurjr it was ok back then, it let the losers just be losers. i wasnt bothered too much. but in my town no one was playing punk before we started playing it. so we had to do it from scratch. we didnt know indepedant music existed like i know it exists today. we didnt know about basment shows when we put on our first basement show. we didnt know things like this where going on. we created our own enviroment then. i think that thats what it was all about. doing things for yr self out of defiance of a "mass society" who told you that you would never do anything. these days, punk has been co-opted by the mainstream. there was no hot topic back then capitalizing on things from our youth. stores like that are geared towards the apathetic/uncaring youth. hot topic is just as bad as the gap or victoria secret ever was.. at first i wanted to think it was cool, but i realize that these are now the same people who would be doing the whole banana republic thing if looking goth wasnt excepted like it is today, because of how the mainstream has made it ok. after enough sneers from fashioned goths you begin to think that they are just like everyone else., same kinda candy.. different flavor. bands like... blood brothers, poison the well, and the locust arent the same my heros from 1993/94. they may be turning some heads, but the feeling isnt the same. for some reason, its all about being accepted... because if the mainstream can sell thousands of locust records, there certainly there must be a place up there for me and my band., but it doesnt work like that. you must fit the mold still. i would love to see if people liked the locust (in the mainstream and underground) if they didnt project the image they do. for some reason, people think that they have something to say and they dont. or maybe its because they dont have anything to say and thats why it works. i have no clue honestly. i just dont see the locust wearing hoodies/beanies/and plaid shirts being as popular as they are. the music is good.. just fine by me... but definately not "accessible". however what is accessible and makes it ok to like the locust is that they are cute and dress so well. i reject that still. sure, its hard going to borders these days and seeing everyone of yr friends bands on some glossy one page feature and thinking gee it would be cool if this were my band.. but i just have to remind myself the music is the last thing on anyones mind in the mainsteam. its about the bottomline and thats money. period. honestly, i should have just stuck with playing soccer. it seems more defiant than punk rock today. sorry, about our documents. its like anyone grows.. things change. you dont always hang out with the same group you did ten years ago. if music isnt always changing for me...than i have no business doing it. im happy that pg99's records dont all sound the same. they suck. but.. atleast theres some organic nature to it, that made it feel like it was growing.
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