Republican is the New Punk

Jan 31, 2009 in Arts, Entertainment, Guitar, Music

by Doug TenNapel Johnny Cash was punk rock. The birth of rock came when Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Cash toured small towns and set the youth on fire. Parents were outraged. The long dippity-doo hair atop gyrating men “dancing like the negroes” before frothing young girls set mainstream culture against this rebellious little movement. It was our first smell of anarchy and it scared the establishment. Johnny RamoneThe rebellious spirit of rock is dead.