And although many agree that grunge was the closest thing to unity, there are still arguments over which act best focused that accord. Its audience was people with hair of every length, style and colour. Later, in Seattle, grunge brought together the essential elements of punk – its attitude and soiled look – and melded it with metal’s aural assault. ![]() He was considered a freak by the metal audiences.” “Perry was even a freakier-looking rock star than Axl Rose. Jane’s Addiction is another group that combined elements from various sources, including punk and metal, and could lay claim to uniting the various fans, except that Mullen thinks frontman Perry Farrell’s eccentricities might have been a bit much for some. “When Mötley blew up, it’s like the punk rockers didn’t give a shit because it was like another world anyway.” Unlike the testosterone-fuelled hardcore audiences, Mötley’s followers included plenty of women and posed no threat, according to Mullen. ![]() “The hostility I encountered was with skinhead types and idiot locals who just decided they wanted to fight.”Īs hardcore was taking off in the suburbs, Hollywood was becoming the focal point of a metal revival that had more to do with big hair than long hair, led by Mötley Crüe. They needed to come up with names to place on everybody and that’s what they came up with.”Įncountering the ramped-up aggression of this new music caused problems at Black Flag gigs, explains Rollins. ![]() “One of the things with us is we never really classified ourselves. While others called Circle Jerks hardcore, Morris was less inclined to attach a label. It was all like, we didn’t know what we were doing, and it wasn’t good punk rock because it was just too fast.” The advent of hardcore brought division within the punk ranks, remembers Lorraine Ali, a past contributor to Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Times, and now a senior reporter for Newsweek.
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