My older brother was in a punk band when I was in grade 7, so I started a punk band. I wasn't allowed to like "fag music" either (which was everything except 'real' punk, none of that Fat Wreck Chords crap). I secretly kept rocking out my Zeppelin, AC/DC, Motley Crue et al. records, and eventually came to my senses.
This is a bit tangential, but man alive... Punk rock and punks have always been such an insane contradiction to me: the whole movement is founded on difference, openness, acceptance, diversity etc. yet everyone I know that even remotely resembles punk are far and away the most closed-minded and elitist when it comes to musical tastes. It's just bizarre.
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