With all due respect, there are some great punk bands, I could fill in a list of at least 50 bands metalheads do respect, but Johnny Rotten and his dudes were a joke to sell rotten and filthy t-shirts. Time goes by and some people finally face reality. Check it out what the due told The New York Times – there’s something terribly wrong someone ‘against the system’ is interviewed by the Times, don’t you think?:
“[At concerts,] Row 1 to 30 would be Johnny Rotten imitators. I thought, ‘This is going horribly wrong.’ I wasn’t doing this to create a new uniform that wasn’t any way near as good as what the Nazis had.”
“[Aware this conservation was being recorded, he quickly added with a wink:] ‘John said with the utmost possible humor.”
“That’s where punk and me separated. Punk wanted to maintain the cliché and the uniformity that it didn’t deserve. And I wanted to do new and different things, which is, to my mind, what punk is all about: Do it yourself, which means be true to yourself.”
“It is embarrassing, really. How many bands are out there like Green Day now? I look at them, and I just have to laugh. They’re coat hangers, you know. A turgid version of something that doesn’t actually belong to them.”
“Punk became a caricature.”
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!