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1991 For Some People Was A Significant Year In Terms Of Punk Rock. It Was The Year "punk Broke".

People Ask Me: ‘what Is Punk? How Do You Define Punk?' Here's How I Define Punk: It's A Free Space. It Could Be Called Jazz. It Could Be Called Hip-hop. It Could Be Called Blues, Or Rock, Or Beat. It Could Be Called Techno. It's Just A New Idea. For Me, It Was Punk Rock. That Was My Entrance To This Idea Of The New Ideas Being Able To Be Presented In An Environment That Wasn't Being Dictated By A Profit Motive.

First Of All, [st. Stephen's] Is A Radical Church. It Was One Of The First Dc Churches To Have Gay Ceremonies. A Woman Said Mass There, Which Almost Got A Priest Excommunicated There; Black Panthers Spoke At The Church; It Was A Sanctuary For Civil Rights Protesters And Anti-war Protesters.

My Humor Is Very Dry. To Me It Doesn't Make Sense.

What People Don't Understand Is That The Underground That Existed Was Created In The Early 80s And Was Thriving Throughout The 80s. Until The Industry Showed Up It Was A Pretty Significant Network. It Was All Happening, But The Smell Of Money Had Not Wafted Up High Enough For The Industry. It Wasn't Really Until They Came Descending On Seattle That Things Really Got Out Of Control.