Chris Robinson

which was a lot of records back then.

Bluegrass records, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs records, or Moe's Allison records, Jimmy Reed records, Johnny Guitar Watson, and then they had Buffalo Springfield records.

Bob Dylan records.

I mean, that's a big... I mean, for millions of people, but something as a kid that I knew no other kids would go... You guys want to come over and listen to records?

I'm going to put on the times they are changing.

Again, that would be a reason to get beat up.

But that kind of stuff catapults us into... Then punk rock comes along and it's like, oh, anyone can do this.

You don't have to be...

We'll figure it out later what talent or whatever.

You know what I mean?

We just want to plug in and start going and singing horrible things and trying to be offensive.

You know what I mean?

Because think about it.

Now people walk around in Dead Kennedys t-shirts and it's like, oh, cool.

But back then, Dead Kennedys made people like the name of that band, the Circle Jerks.

The names of these bands made people upset.

But I mean, I think inevitably anything like that, I mean...

Edgar Allan Poe was that in a literary way in the, you know, the tail end of the Victorian age.

But now he's just like a thing hanging in some goth kid's car, like an air freshener or something.

So things get swallowed up culturally.