we have i suspect people will be more happy with this situation than with the it was because. of these. greetings and salyut asians 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 a new series of attacks sound like tyrrel that you dislike me to analyze the data gauge for the bottom sit down if you speak to my left all alone whether they like it or not i got to have a visible all this with we film and the outrage of it and it is still going on in

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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 re con keys 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 on 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 use my. my phone i use the voice notes and i could be doing anything and i would just pick it up and sing a line into it or play a ready. generally courting american beauty i waited to be

erik's i didn't like the music they just sound effects trying to like readjust them rewrite to us 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 are 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 threw old 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 is caroline

caroline munro choose which 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 quasi wise i think i really kind of jumped the jump 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 but what what's been the big difference as an artist between like you know writing and creating in you know that the years previous to a family and then today were 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 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 the 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 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 there's. sort of no way or the culture at that that's sort of around it don't understand when someone says something like and if there's 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 in 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 auggie 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 one one what's a 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 lofts where they could you know do whatever they wanted to do and went to a music scene saw it at the bud there the art scene immediately just went in and supported it so it was like a mutually supportive thing so the the punk scene in new york really is much different then 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 were dressed real great and it was tracked a lot of tension and so it's very different from the new york scene as we go to

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snow worm good bridge to come in you stupid to even. post. east oklahoma. into. the so in the four colors coast so. let's. welcome back hawk watchers now let's break down some walls as we bring back to the stage c.j. ramon. leg.

length. leg. leg. length. leg. eleven.

limb. a. leg. length. lens. 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 thing like oh 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 gotta make a record you know if 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 got 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 i happen to 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 you know that's where the change is 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 wasn't 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 hat. now with with bands as the simian lyonnais 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 this is important to us and it is art and let's get everyone here to join in 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 you put your own you know like if you just grabbed a guitar and put up a video on you tube it attention to it instead of just doing it because well 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 of where that and i don't know i don't know what the answer is you know there's plenty of like the real stuff so just go look for it's not pan delivered to you go 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 go into a show should be a blast like steve said that's pretty much it was more people come have fun enjoy themselves make sure they understand what we're saying and don't just take it and do 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 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. want to add. eleven eleven. eleven eleven. eleven clinton

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