Essay About Successful Punk Band And First American Punk

Got to Get One Now
Essay title: Got to Get One Now
Did you know that the first commercially successful punk band
was the Sex Pistols? Then came groups like Black Flag, Husker Du,
and Bad Brains. Punk was invented in Britain in the mid Seventies.
The first American punk started in a New York club called CBGBs.
CBGBs would attract a crowd of about 500 with its Sunday-afternoon
hard-core matinees. The concerts would be over by a reasonable
time so kids could get home to eat dinner with their parents. In
this paper we will take a look at some history and aspects of punk
rock over the years.
Slam dancing has been popular through the history of punk.
You may have heard of called “mashing” or “stage diving.” Mashing
is just a big game of bumper cars like you played when you were a
kid. I think Natalie Jacobson who is dating the lead singer of
“Murphys Law” describes stage diving best when says, “Its like
diving into a human carpet. Something like the old kids trust
game. Just my way of getting into it. Gospel people got their
thing, I got mine.”1
Some punks consider themselves Nazis, or are concerned with
issues like peace, racism, and nuclear war. Most punk is against
parental, musical, and political authorities. On the other hand
some isnt. Bob Mould of Husker Du talks about politics quite
frequently in his songs.
Most punks that live in small towns have trouble