Pretty boys and sex symbols with good production and real studio time selling bunches of cds and doing shows with lots of screaming girls and real printed posters and air conditioning. Good skin and expensive clothes.

I submit that today’s mainstream “punk” is no more punk than Stevie Wonder. Quite probably - much less.

The immediacy is missing. The anger and hate is missing. The fun is kind of gone, too. It’s become pop music. And pop music with 3 chords is not even good pop music.

So, yeah - I’m saying today’s punk, by and large, is not punk. I’m an elitist and a bit of a purist. An asshole, too.

But, hey - if you dig it, that’s cool. I dig a lot of crap, too…