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Punk wars Midwest style

Posted over 4 years ago

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Negative Approach

I was gonna stay outta this BUT I read Pekka's post on Husker Du and the midwest. I respond with...NEGATIVE APPROACH!Even though MI isn't truely Midwest, that's the region we get grouped into. We got John Brannon in this here state and he sounds lik this...

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anna log says i would beg to differ about MI being in the midwest. it SO IS!!! i mean - if Ohio is the midwest and Illinois is the midwest and Minnesota is the midwest.... MICHIGAN is the midwest.

good call on negative approach! john brannon is the real thing!

have you heard cuckold? they're from detroit. mike walker, ex of bogue and detroit city council is the front man.

when i last saw cuckold, brannon was in the audience and he loved it. of course, cuckold is, in many ways, a tribute to negative approach, but those guys ain't no slouches

Permalink posted 08/02/2007
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White and Nerdy says This is why I used the word "truely"...MI is on this weird fringe, we're kinda sandwiched in between the northeast and the midwest and just hanging off the top of the US not really doing anything. We've got these darned lakes that are kind of a weird buffer too. I don't know how much time you've spent in Michigan but after living in Minneapolis/St. Paul for 4 years I realized what the REAL midwest is like. We've certainly got a lot of midwestiness in us but we've still got a ways to go to be fully in the club, if you follow what I mean. Enough semantics, on to the music...Brannon IS indeed the real punk rock deal. Almost frighteningly so. The last time I photographed Easy Action he was lookin' pretty scary. He was most certainly a pioneer of Motor City punk back in the 80s! I have yet to hear Cuckold but I'll keep my ears open for them now. The southeast isn't that big so it shouldn't be too hard to find them. Later tonite the Hard Lessons are playing with Mazinga...don't know if you've ever heard either of those bands.

Permalink posted 08/03/2007
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contrabandwidth says Shoot, I'm from the Philadelphia area. We consider Pittsburgh the mid west.

Permalink posted 08/03/2007
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White and Nerdy says That's funny, I guess it's all a matter of perception. I consider anything west of Minnesota and Iowa as "out west" and Pittsburgh on eastward as eastcoast. For Michigan I've been using the term "Rust Belt" more than anything, for a regional description. That seems to encompasses almost everything trapped along the lakes like Buffalo, Eerie, Toledo, Cleveland, etc...even Pittsburgh and Youngstown. All us old, broken industrial places that don't quite fit nice and neat and completely into the eastcoast/northeast or midwest catagories.

Permalink posted 08/03/2007
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contrabandwidth says Well, to be fair, for years I hardly considered anything outside of the area I grew up in ('burbs of Philly) to be Pennsylvania. The rest of the state, and it's a BIG state, is so different than where I grew up. I guess it's all perception.

Permalink posted 08/03/2007
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Iren says "The Midwest":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midwest to me has always been the the Ohio side of the Appalachians to the Mississippi River and north of the Mason/Dixion line... I know what you are speaking of, as we grew up in the PROAA, which might geographically lie with in the midwest, but culturally is like another world, what with 10 or 11 thousand east coasters importing their culture to town every fall for nine months, and then there is the international peoples all over the place... it's like Vatican City or something... that said, yes when I think midwest Punk, no one really did hardcore like NA....

Permalink posted 08/04/2007