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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
If you said Axl Rose and Liam Gallagher were "punks" I would agree with you. But they are not "Punk Rock." Plain and simple: they are not a music genre.
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Nah man..I suppose we can argue semantics but I feel we're basically saying the same thing. (Unless of course, you mean punks as a form of disrespect, ie - "get those young punks off my lawn!!" lol)
I actually see it in the reverse. Axl and Liam are not "punks", because that to me is talking of a visual style or an aesthetic which would go along with the Punk Rock genre. In other words, after the originators of punk came kicking onto the scene - what they did, what they said, what they wore was original - everyone else thereafter sort of adapted or sometimes copied what they did.
On the flip side, being "Punk Rock", to me is an attitude. Waylon Jennings, with his prison stints, his non PC lyrics, and not caring about what the music industry or the public thought of him, was Punk with his attitude, despite his music being something your grandpa could listen to.
Axl and Liam both were iconoclasts, not giving a fawk what people thought of them. Constantly stirring controversy (not contrived popular babble) but random outburst of anger and insults slung at whomever they felt deserved it.