2.
The Clash – Combat Rock
That was in seventh, eighth grade, I was 12-13. ‘Should I Stay Or
Should I Go?’ was on the radio and I remember hearing that and saying
“Wow, what is this?” and someone saying, “Oh, this is punk rock”. The
record was really eclectic, funky – I noticed, going back to it years
later, that there’s a lot of reggae influences. It’s a great record.
It’s another record where I could probably sing all the tunes. I
remember learning the chords to that song on the guitar, and that was
the big lightning bolt going on. It was like "Wow, really, you can do
this? I can do this? This is amazing. I wanna hear more of this punk
rock.” Then I got Never Mind the Bollocks and other things. I didn’t
get into Black Flag or stuff like that – we were too rural. If we’d
lived in a bigger city, we might have. We were aware of Hüsker Dü and
bands like that because they were from Minnesota.
