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- Punk rope is a ‘Clash’ of music and exercise
- They’re parents they’re punk they’re puttin’ the…
- Roky’s children
Punk rope is a ‘Clash’ of music and exercise
seacoastonline.com – Jul 12, 2007
Anyone interested in starting a class or becoming an instructor should contact Tim Haft at tim@punkrope. In fact most of the music that is blasted through the room during the 55-minute class at the Seacoast Family YMCA is punk rock although Haft does intersperse his play lists — typically heavy with the Clash the Unlovables and Green Day — with classic rock ska and psychobilly. After all alternating quick jump roping routines with exercises that seem more like a game is the essence of “punk rope” — the brainchild of Haft — which is a program he described as a “playful cross between recess and boot camp. “For Haft 46 the pace of punk rock and the usual length of the genre’s songs — two- to 2½ minutes long — are a perfect fit for the jump roping. But though there are 15 so-called intervals in each punk rope class only six of those are jumping. The others are focused on conditioning drills masquerading as some kind of play-acting game like “pretend” tennis volleyball and relay races.
They’re parents they’re punk they’re puttin’ the…
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jul 12, 2007
While coping with her husband’s illness Penny realized that she had to focus not just on Dean but on herself too. One day while she was watching a band play at a party inspiration struck. She turned to a friend and said “I’m gonna start a mommy punk band!” Penny hadn’t played music since college when she had mastered just three guitar chords but she was undeterred. She started asking other moms to join her. Fellow preschool mom Jen Trujillo was intrigued. “But how did you know I played music?” she asked Penny. “You already play music?” Penny said.
Roky’s children
Austin 360 – Austin 360 (subscription) – Jul 12, 2007
” Just check out any given night at Beerland for proof. But as the ’60s turned into the ’70s and Erickson’s legal troubles magnified his music became more obscure both aesthetically and physically. There were one-off singles of prot-punk and horror movie lyrics poorly distributed EPs a solo album of ’70s tracks that went unreleased until 1980 in the U. (”Roky Erickson & the Aliens”) and ‘81 here (”The Evil One”). This was bad for Erickson but probably pretty good for his myth. A young Henry Rollins sure got sucked into it… and I was just floored. ” Rollins tried to tape everything he could get his hands on the gritty guitars and whacked-out lyrics not too far afield from the confluence of ’70s hard rock and punk that Black Flag ended up exploring on albums such as “My War. “When the real book on American music gets written he’s going to be one of those Mount Rushmore faces” Rollins says. “There’s no song or album where you’re like ‘What the hell was he thinking?’ ” It’s the world-building that got to Rollins Erickson’s ability to crack open his brain and show it to you through song. “Guys like Roky make music that amazing place to go” Rollins says. “(John) Coltrane and Miles (Davis) and (Jimi) Hendrix were able to do this. It becomes more than the music and more than the lyric a total environment.