Favorite bands :
Bad Religion, NOFX, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Rise Against, Propagandhi, Bouncing Souls, The Descendents, Nirvana, blink-182, Screeching Weasel, and a ton of others.
Favorite guitarists :
(Excluding obvious ones like Jimi Hendrix) El Hefe, Brian Baker
Favorite bassists :
Fat Mike, Les Claypool, others but im too lazy to think right now
About puffymcjj
My two main hobbies (excluding video games) are music and film making. Generally I listen to alternative rock, punk, grunge, and pop-punk, but classic rock is good and occasionally I might listen to some metal.
Views on punk: The genre is awesome. It's a genre where if done right, lyrics come first, and there's no meaningless songs. I like pop-punk too, and the worst thing about punk enthusiasts are the ones that get all snobbish almost about whether or not a band is punk.
Here's what I think. As long as the songs have meaning, and the music comes first in the band, it's punk. Pop-punk can sometimes become about commercialism, which sucks. Music should be simply music, and industry be a factor in music. Blink-182 are sort of selling out now (mainly Tom). This sucks, because they used to be punk. I'm talking about the idea that their lyrics were meaningful, and it was a punk mindset despite having a pop-punk sound.
Bottom line: Most punk bands have some pop-punk sounding songs. As long as they're true to themselves, they're still punk. They stop being punk when they sell out. If all punk bands had to keep thinking about ways to make all their songs as punky as possible, it would get in the way of other musical progress. Besides, if you want to get technical, it's almost like adhering to a system in which you have to make your music be a certain way. That's pretty much the opposite of punk.
TL;DNR
I'm not a punk. I'm not a poser either.
On a lighter note, as of right now it's almost the weekend!
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