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Per i bet at some point in your youth you had a spikey coloured mohawk ...didnt you?

The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:32 pm Per i bet at some point in your youth you had a spikey coloured mohawk ...didnt you?

Just for you Wiz - look for Per in the crowd....

This tour rolled through Seattle back in '76.

The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:32 pm Per i bet at some point in your youth you had a spikey coloured mohawk ...didnt you?

Unfortunately not, but there was a strong punk element among the Björklöven supporters back in the 80's.

I actually had long hair when I went on interrail through Europe at age 17. Somewhere in southern Italy, possibly Naples, I decided to get a hair cut. Just a trim. I showed the barber how much I wanted him to take away, and that's exactly how much he left me with. More or less a crew cut. I was in shock, but that's what language barriers can do. So, luckily, the punk rockers also mostly had short hair, so I blended in fairly well with them, even if I never went all in and got a mohawk or dyed my hair.

I did win first price on punk day during homecoming week at Stratford Community High School in Iowa though back in 1982.

Frankly, I'd say I was the only one who looked like a punk rocker at all. Had poured a grape soda in my hair to get some weirdish tinge, then combed it to stand straight up. Tore the arms off a white t-shirt, added an anarchy A in front and scribbled "sex pistols rule OK" in the back, added some random stains to make it look really shitty and then had army pants and all star sneakers. A fake ring in one ear and a safety pin in the corner of my mouth. I really think I had the look down pretty well, but then, I was probably the only one listening to punk in Iowa in 1981/82. It was more REO Speedwagon/Loverboy country. Nobody seemed to have even heard of The Clash.

A cute girl in second place that had the Debbie Harry look down though. But I always thought it was a bit of a stretch to say Blondie were punk rockers. New wave, possibly. But punk? Nah.



The safety pin in the corner of my mouth really freaked the Iowans out though! Good times!

Per wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:24 am I actually had long hair when I went on interrail through Europe at age 17. Somewhere in southern Italy, possibly Naples, I decided to get a hair cut. Just a trim. I showed the barber how much I wanted him to take away, and that's exactly how much he left me with. More or less a crew cut. I was in shock

Per wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:24 am Frankly, I'd say I was the only one who looked like a punk rocker at all. Had poured a grape soda in my hair to get some weirdish tinge, then combed it to stand straight up. Tore the arms off a white t-shirt, added an anarchy A in front and scribbled "sex pistols rule OK" in the back, added some random stains to make it look really shitty and then had army pants and all star sneakers. A fake ring in one ear and a safety pin in the corner of my mouth.

OK thats better than the mohawk