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Date: Saturday, October 10 2015
Location: Mutiny Information Cafe 2 South Broadway Denver, CO 80209
Time: 6 pm
Special musical guests TBA
excerpt of Shawn's interview.
to read more, order the book.
I'm currently in Las Vegas working with Sonny on the layout. Good news is text and images have been placed, Next the fine tuning. Sonny is making the magic happen. Do yourself a favor and preorder the book and get extra goodies in the mail next week. You can do this by visiting: http://bobrobart.bigcartel.com
The book release date has been set.
Date: Saturday, October 10 2015
Location: Mutiny Information Cafe 2 South Broadway Denver, CO 80209
Time: 6 pm
Special musical guests TBA
excerpt of Shawn's interview.
What do you think what eventually happened in the
Denver scene? At one point, a lot of new kids arrived calling themselves
skinhead and had a different take on what you guys started out as?
I don't know where all that came from. It was gradual. It
didn’t happen overnight. That second Black Flag show at the Rainbow Music Hall.
That was when Gary had all those business cards made -- Support Your
Local Skins, the Few the Proud the Nazis. That's when we gave one to
Henry, and he jumped off the stage to come after me. That's when Jeff came up
and told Henry, "You might get one shot in, but we're going to kick your
fucking ass."
Did he back down?
He got back up on stage, said something about it, and that
was it. When we were younger, everybody was pissed off at the world. What path
were we all going? When we look back to those days we essentially woke up,
partied, listened to music, skateboarded, rode bikes, and we didn't care about
what was going to happen the next day.
At the time, did you feel that kids involved with
hardcore had a lot of energy and did extreme stuff like ride BMX bikes, skated
ramps and gravitated towards music like punk.
You gotta look at people that did that sort of thing in
Denver. They were outcasts. I moved from Southern California in 1977, and my
first day of school in 6th grade I was wearing Vans and someone tells me,
"My grandpa wears shoes like that." Right from the get-go at that
age, you had your jocks, your freaks, your hicks … I really didn't have that in
California, it was like, "Hey, buddy, let's go to the beach." You
grabbed your boogie board and went to the beach. At school, they were telling
me, "No, no, no, you gotta wear Adidas.” As I got into 9th grade, you had
to be a jock, you had to do this ..." Fuck that shit. I remember one of my
teachers telling me I was the good jock gone bad. I played football, I played lacrosse, and I followed that fucking norm. One day I got invited to punk rock
and realized that this is what I liked. We looked at all the magazines. All the
punks skateboarded and BMXed, and that's what we gravitated towards. Look at
how many people showed up to the ramps after school. Everyone went over to each
other's house and hung out. It was all tight-knit.
Eventually everyone in the scene started grouping
themselves. We're the peace punks, we're the skins, we're the hardcore punks,
we're the junkie punks ... It was weird that everyone started getting labeled
into little groups. During the whole time, I was in the scene, I don't think I
ever fought anyone in the scene ... with the exception of one skinhead who was
talking shit and got his mouth pounded. If you really reflect back to that
time, what troubles really existed within the scene? I remember the last show
at Kennedy's, but that was just one big drunken onslaught and everybody tore
that place down.
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