president of the world bank. is really. seriously he sent us an e-mail. greetings and salyut today hawk watchers it's time to celebrate the freedom of expression the freedom to reject the conventions of the status quo and the freedom of true individuality which means today we celebrate punk rock music in all its forms an attitude rooted in the garage bands of the one nine hundred sixty s. punk rock grew out of a rejection of the claustrophobic excesses of mainstream rock music in the one nine hundred seventy s. punk became

a cultural phenomenon that shook the status quo to the core and change the face of music culture and even politics forever punk rock is one of the few genres of music that truly does give voice to the voiceless. and with a with a true true celebration of individuality and rejection of mainstream ideology from the ramones to the sex pistols to the clash the legacy culture of creativity and musical freedom of punk rock can not and will not be silenced by by those who would go along to get along. so today. let's strike a chord as watching the hawks. goes public if you want to know but still would know that you see the history of the bank sounds like tyrrell to me what you need to analyze the days again for the potus it just became i left all alone for the day

like it or not i got to have a visit with the we film and the outbreak and it is still going on in this world open up. and open up new we opened up your mind and you start to question. klem plenty plenty

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so tell me about the new album american beauty and how what's the journey that leads up to this. american beauty is really different than the rest of my records. the first record i put out a con piece to was written over the course of several years i left music around two

thousand and two thousand and one had a family recovered from my time in the ramones. and then about two thousand and eight i started playing out again but in all those years that i was gone and when i started playing early on i always sat down with my acoustic guitar and played songs and so i had plenty of songs written by the time i recorded break on teesta my second record. less chance to dance was written i started writing those songs almost immediately after recording reconquista so when it came time to record that one i already had the songs it was a pretty both of those processes were pretty relaxed and without stress. after we recorded less chance to dance. i started the same process of writing songs whenever i got inspiration and i used my. my phone i used to voice notes and i could be doing anything and i would just pick it up and sing a line into it or play a riff into it and so i had

a pretty good stockpile of ideas and potential songs. the closer we got to the time to record american beauty. generally two years in between records. so i was a little overly relaxed about recording american beauty which had a completely different title and album cover and everything in the beginning of it but i waited till about a month before we were going to go into record and i started trying to put together some of the songs that i had all these little ideas recorded and when i started listening back to them i was like i don't like him these as i didn't like the lyrics i didn't like the music they just sounded on inspired in almost like i was trying to. reproduce what i did on the first two records. and i said ok i'm not going to panic so i spent two weeks trying to like readjust

them rewrite them move some stuff around and then it was almost time to go into the studio and i was like. ok i've just put the brakes on it i was like i have to rewrite i have to rewrite the record i didn't want to let too much time go by i was trying to stay to that schedule of every two years putting a record out with the idea in mind that i would be retiring in two thousand and twenty that's kind of the the goal i set from when i first came back to playing. so i basically what i did was for two weeks i as soon as my kids were in bed my wife was asleep i locked myself in the basement with a pot of coffee and a bottle of jack daniels and whiskey and coffee and stayed up all night and in two weeks i basically wrote the whole record. there were a couple of points where i got i struggled with inspiration and. i just to hold my laptop one night and i i'm a big sixty's seventy's horror fan or even fifty's horror fan. film i love all that

stuff and i pulled up. some of the hammer films and there was a particular actress that was and several of his films called her name was caroline caroline monroe choose who was my favorite to be responsible for my sexual awakening and and so i watched through one of those movies and i instantly got the idea for the lyrics to a girlfriend in a graveyard so it was a really intense songwriting period but. i know everyone says that when they put out a new record definitely i think my strongest record songwriting wisely or quat wise i think i really kind of jumped jumped to another level as far songwriting goes alaska what is that you know you have a family now you took that break but you know previous to that you had you know this fantastic career you know ramones and all that but what what's been the difference as an artist between like you know writing and creating in you know that

the years previous to a family and then today where it's like ok i got away for i want to go to bed and i got to go down the basement like what is that difference that you have that can you describe a little bit about the difference of what it's like i think when you're younger and you you're not responsible for much and there you feel like you can kind of do and say whatever you want like there really aren't any boundaries you tend to kind of really just let it all out. i think now that i have kids and now that i understand realize that the things that i say will affect how other people see things or how other people do things. i tend to be a little bit more creative in how i express myself or choose my words a little better and it's not to try to mask what i want to say or anything like that it's just that i understand like when you're

a public person and when you put your own opinions out there publicly and a lot of people listening that you can really mess people's lives up or make their lives better or the message that you put out there is going to affect people so now i really try to focus more on on on the things that i know for sure to be good positive you know uplifting or or if it's not just something just things that people can relate to like the average person will be able to relate to and i'm not trying to say that my music is like super intellectual philosophical or anything like that you know i mean i'm not trying to make it sound like it's more than it is but what i write and what i put out now definitely is a lot more mature and a lot more i think a little more well spoken than i was before i mean before when i had while i was in the ramones i had

a band called los cusato as i just said was what abba was on my mind i didn't care what anybody thought and that is definitely a symptom of be healing you know i mean because of course when you get older you realize like saying that it made my feel good to get it off your chest but is a constructive is it something positive is it making is going to be some that people are going to listen to and make them think. differently in a good way or a bad way you know i mean there's a lot there really is a lot thing about so i just take what i do a little more seriously now with punk i think it's probably hard for people to think about that because when they people who don't listen to music and don't know this on our own sort of know it or the culture at that sort of around it don't understand when someone says something like and if there is a positive message they can imagine how it's empowering despite that it's incredibly empowering to do wide swathes of people from all over and different places so what is it about punk that allows you to do that or what is it how is

that a conduit for you. it's it's a really odd thing like punk rock has gone through. a lot of changes since it first started right to me the ramones saw the beginning of punk rock i know there's a lot of all the main arguably the first punk rock band i say definitely the first program but but punk rock really in new york on the east coast started out as more of a. like the parents are home we can do whatever we want but there was like a pop aspect to it and it was just kind of like like letting your emotions out it was really about foreign but a huge influence from the art community right so you know when you hear about people talk about c.b. jeebies and you know the one why what's the big deal about c b g b s nobody lived in that part of manhattan back i'm nobody it was abandoned buildings squats

homeless people it really was like a bad bad neighborhood. hilly kristal who own c.b. jeebies felt like you know he wanted to kind of get a music scene established there not necessarily punk but punk as what took root there but the only people that went to those early punk shows were the artists who were who live down there because the rent was cheap so they you know had these giant walks where they could you know do whatever they wanted to do and when the music scene saw it at the blood there the art scene immediately just went in and supported it so it was like a mutually supportive thing so the punk scene in new york really is much different than the punk scene say in london where it started out as you know where it was created as a political fashion movement it was like the the. kind of the union of the two you know was like. politics fashion we can you know bring the youth in through fashion

and have this army of ill informed in my opinion kids who are dressed real great and into what attracts a lot of tension and so it's very different from the new york scene as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered and if you would like to learn more about today's speech and artist check us out on facebook twitter and you tube see our poll shows at r t v dot com coming up the freedom of punk continues as watching the hawks strikes a chord. with. welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin that my body gets and

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when i first started playing punk rock there was no there was no commercial aspect to it whatsoever so it's very pure in the sense that it was kids in a garage that put on our own shows and did our own thing and played for pretty much each other you know the audience was usually people in other bands and the very beginning and then as it grew and for us because we were from the suburbs. so this all started like you know for like us the west coast stuff started in los angeles but when the suburban kids in like orange county and long beach and stuff got their hands on it we kind of morphed it into our own thing sadly it kind of bombed out some of the older l.a. people and they kind of ran from the whole thing like you guys are crazy because there wasn't a crazy element to it but at some point it became. you

know a money making thing and so people were getting into punk rock because they wanted to have a successful music career and fortunately like for like the bands from the early eighty's we got to grow as bands without that. being in the pressure of that like oh we got to sell a million records we were just like oh we got to make or record anyone bought it it was like oh well you know so i think that that's where it changed a lot and now you know i mean it's going up and down we always sing or the lessons and i joke around with all the ice age of punk you know because it will happen and then all the sudden it's popular again and you know like the first time it happened bands like bad religion lot of bands like started playing metal and doing all this other stuff but like bad religion just plugged along and played punk rock and kept at it you know and then when it got popular again they were poised to be in

a great spot because they didn't give up on it you know so. in that sense i think that's where the changes as it became something the became a commodity instead of just being like this whole art thing that happened years ago seventeen years ago i'd say which isn't that long ago. i started a metal band so was in the punk scene. but at the same time we had to do everything ourselves to get people to the shows we were making our own flyers go and you know mall parking lots or whatever parking lots and just putting flyers everywhere and. what's happening now with with. the similarly in the punk scene i don't know if they're working that hard to do that you know to have that kind of. real ground work of hey this is important to us and it is art and let's get everyone here to join in on it and i don't know if that's happening the emphasis emphasis

now seems to be on how many hits did you get on you tube how many you know like that's that's where the problem lies is even even if play you put your own you know like if you just grab a guitar and put up a video on you tube you know it's like people are doing things to get attention to it instead of just doing it because well i wrote this great song and i want to put it out you know and if you don't get those hits no one pays attention to you so it's like you know a catch twenty two is you know do you want people to hear your music but at the same time you know if you do the things to make the sacrifices that you might have to make to get it out to people is it's kind where that and i don't know i don't know if the answer is you know there's plenty of like the real stuff so i just go look for it it's not hand to live or to you know to find the first like adolescence record the first record i made like that record is all about being a disenfranchised teenager and it stands up today because we weren't singing about

reagan in the eighty's we were singing about you know the outcast you know and so. so for that end of it it's kind of like you know like the the it's probably the biggest record that i've played on and i've had kids come up to me and go like i know you know how i feel right now and that's you know that kind of you know. it makes you feel like you know does something to your heart knowing that at the same time at our shows we try to have a great time and get people to like it's fun and now as we're older we address you know like political stuff sometimes too i mean it's like. it's kind of touching on all of it you know in the most part is trying to give people some of your insight but also letting them know that you empathize with them and know how they feel and it's also fun to you know music going to a show should be a blast like steve said that's pretty much always when people come have fun enjoy

themselves make sure they understand what we're saying and don't just take it into something distorted with it and. buy their tickets and don't ask to be on the list . for me i just i want to be an example to like the students i have to the friends that were in the scene that i was in you know doing things or selves just like these guys did. you know work hard do what you love and don't be a douche you know girl grow up to be a good person and that's really it and i just try my best to be that example is very particular about them. just point out that adam has better socks than the and today oh they. come on and.

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