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I have been an avid follower of music for around 30+ years. I enjoy writing and chatting about it.

I became very bitter towards music and the corporations that run it beginning in the 1990's continuing through today.

I feel music has done a complete about face to what you hear on the radio to TV to music videos. It is not the music that you want hear, but more or less the music the corporations want you to hear.

Most of the new bands are pre-arranged bands put together by the music industry. The majority of good quality music is in the Underground, but can be heard through Satellite radio and the Internet.

I am also big follower of sports.

Entertainment > Musicians & Bands Music reviews: Punk rock

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If want to go back to a quick history lesson of Punk, you'd have to back to 1969 when The Stooges emerged. The Stooges fronted by Iggy Pop were raw, simple and a big change of pace to what was happening in the world then. Vietnam, Nixon, the late hippie movement and the arrival of the New Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin. The Stooges remained fairly in the underground. There were other bands starting to emerge in the early 70's coming out the New York scene. The Ramones and The New York Dolls. But it wasn't until around 1976 when a band named the Sex Pistols arrived. Formed basically by Malcolm McCl...

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