Punk Me, Baby!

I guess it started while we were in Vegas hanging around the Hard Rock pool -- the song came over the air: "Rock, rock, rock -- Rock n' Roll Beach..." I was jamming out with everyone else at the pool and I asked the guys next to us, "Hey, who is this?"

The Ramones

So of course, that was all I needed to get into checking out the back catalog of one of our premire rock bands. I mainly knew them from 'Rock n' Roll High School' and 'I Wanna Be Sedated' but I picked up the recent 'Loud and Fast' compilation, and I got hooked. Interestingly enough, the same day, I picked up the latest White Stripes disc, and the new one by Jack Johnson (not a punker, but a surfer).

So that led me to dig up my Darkness CD, and pull down some NY Dolls from iTunes, and when you add that to my Sex Pistols and Clash, we've got a pretty good little Punk section going on. I'll round it out this week with some more Green Day, and I think I'll be running on adrenaline for as long as the iPod battery lasts....

I've been a punker since high school -- just forgot what the music was all about. Glad to have it back again.