Yes. Specifically SoCal punk and new wave punk, but also more traditional hardcore.
I’m not surprised you don’t get it with her. People often didn’t get it with Devo at the time either. I’m just going to hand it to you - you can be profiting from the commercialism at the same time as you are making some great commentary against the mainstream influences.
There’s lots of ways to be subversive and they don’t all require a rejection of making a buck off of it.
Thinking about “Get in the Van”: he describes a concert he did in the “Hyde Park” (Osnabrück/Germany) … at the time my second home.
I just have the German version, so this is Google translated:
“Later, in the Osnabrück hall. It’s cold here. For some reason, there are skinheads in there too. It’s not even soundcheck yet and they’re already here. They’re making me nervous. I don’t like the pressure of having to play under the stare of some stupid army faction. Power is a dangerous thing. Organizations are evil. Unity is evil. Only a cowardly idiot would join a unified faction. This is unhealthy crap. The outsider is a threat to the power of the uniform. If you can’t convert the outsider, you have to destroy him. Maybe that’s why the skinheads hate us so much. The soundcheck is over. It went quite well. The skinheads are making me nervous. It’s hard enough doing these shows, I don’t have to deal with these wankers too. There are always too many of them. I never see one alone.”
The funny thing is: I was at that concert too. We had a very strong New Wave and Punk scene, some Teddy Boys too. But I can honestly not remember any Skinheads, not at the time, not in that region.
I like Henry Rollins, a lot, but I’m not sure if his memory fails him. I know he was straight edge, so it cannot be booze or drugs. And I always though of him as honest and no-nonsense … until I read those lines…
One thing was true: the Hyde Park was always f#cking cold in the first few hours…
EDIT Oh, and a friend sent me a picture of me at that time, bad quality cause of fanzine:
I can’t say that they were the most consistent band in my book, but when they hit they were just jump out of your skin electrify. their first album changed the way I looked at music.
Yeah, but I think she’s way better in dead sara, was not impressed with the new linkin park album at all, those first two tracks we heard before the album dropped were like the only two good ones on it