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- mr740
you balked
I'd just like to say if there are any of the punk rock lifestyle using this site (and I'm talking DI, Dr. Know kinda shit), the Double Down is probably the most genuine punk rock bar in Vegas. They treat their patrons right, and thgey treat their bands right. Arizona came thru and brought the fucking pain, and Vegas welcomed us with open arms. I plan on making a return once I can hear again.
Viva Las Vegas
- rabattski0
i'm sorry but since yesterday i'm convinced that punk is dead.
- Point50
I've lived here since 1979 and haven't been there yet... but I hear ppl love that place.
- tehgee0
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- tehgee0
dammit i said i luv teh DD!!!
- opiate0
Phauck Punk... It is dead, and has been for quite some time.
- mr7400
dude that card is so fucking played out.
Obviously if you don't know what's going on in your underground community, you're missing out. Punk is alive and well and exactly where it needs to fucking be.
but feel how you want. It's easy to blow somethiing off when you don't know what's going down.
- mr7400
punk rock was flourishing with life at the Double Down last Satuday night.
ain't NO fucking denying that, kids.
- k0na_an0k0
i love naked vegas punk chicks at the d.d.
- rabattski0
wow. you asume a lot mr740 while you don't even know me or what my thoughts on this matter are. thanks for jumping to conclusions.
- mogwai0
"Obviously if you don't know what's going on in your underground community, you're missing out. Punk is alive and well and exactly where it needs to fucking be."
hahaha. the underground is a community? are there meetings and shit? fundraisers? hahaha
- rabattski0
oh and don't call me a kid thank you.
- mr7400
relax man, I'm not judging anyone.
I just hear the "punk is dead" card being thrown around all the time. Sure, punk rock has lost it's luster over the years, but I can honestly tell you that community has kept punk rock alive.
At least in my neighborhood it has.
- tehgee0
hey everyone chill we are talking abotu my FAVORITE BAR DAMMITTTT
- mr7400
amen to that
There's another bar there everyone told me was another great punk bar, I can't remember what it was called tho. "Sail" something maybe...?
- rabattski0
ok. yesterday i saw the briefs and fabulous disaster. a great shows. nothing wrong with that at all. it's just the audience. all picture perfect, tailormade punks, perfect to the smallest details, like you see on mtv and in the magazines. in other words boring. no originality, no personality. punk is doing your own thing and that has completely died out by just imitating over and over again. punk's dead, long live punk.
- mr7400
i can certainly agree with that. fashioncore, nomatter what genre, has taken over the love for the cause. It's very cliquey.
However there are people keeping the spirit alive. What your talking about is the mainstream perception, what I'm talking about is the community perception.
- mr7400
hahaha. the underground is a community? are there meetings and shit? fundraisers? hahaha
mogwai
(May 23 05, 11:50)you're kidding me right? without a community, there would be no underground.
- mogwai0
mr740. could you explain to me what it means to be punk, what it stands for?
- rabattski0
oh there sure are people keeping punk alive, the only difference is that they don't look like punks. anyways, there were i was isn't a mainstream venue at all. it supposedly is the heart of the whole berlin punk scene. now that whole scene isn't punk anymore. just followers afraid to look different.
- mr7400
mogwai, to answer your question:
My belief in punk rock comes from 13 years of loyalty to the Arizona punk rock community. I started going to local shows in 92' and was taken by the energy and independance in the music. Nothing was driven by ambition. Nobody was trying to be famous. It was pure devotion to the art. I'm now almost 28, and run the local community resource website at AZPUNK.com. The tremendous network of people who, like me, love punk rock and want to define our little community with our own western style. As a band member, a show promoter, and an operator of my community, punk rock has made me a true, honest person who believes in the hard work of his community and the independant mark we can make for ourselves.
So in other words, for me, punk rock stands for a hardworking independant musical community, that is determined to be thir own type of person and master themselves by doing it their own way.
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