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One Nine Nine Four

by gunner

So i know most of the people on this site must think I come home from work, open up iTunes and listen to Rise Against non-stop while trolling the forums until i go to bed. But i actually listen to a lot of different music, Rise Against just happens to be my favorite band of all time. I normally only listen to Punk Rock/Hardcore bands (Bad Religion, The Offspring, Black Flag, NOFX exc.) and ive...

So i know most of the people on this site must think I come home from work, open up iTunes and listen to Rise Against non-stop while trolling the forums until i go to bed. But i actually listen to a lot of different music, Rise Against just happens to be my favorite band of all time. I normally only listen to Punk Rock/Hardcore bands (Bad Religion, The Offspring, Black Flag, NOFX exc.) and ive developed a passion for the Punk Rock genre, while i don't see eye to eye on a lot of the lyrics in most of the bands (The Descendants for example, talk about being "different" and not a sheep and about being young even though they are in their 30's) but i have a lot of respect for the bands who have roughed through the horrible 90's (the decade were Punk Rock nearly died) and gathered up what little bit of talent they had left and pushed on to keep Punk Rock alive and toured in old beat up vans during the summer to take a vacation from there regular boring jobs, sometimes only leaving with about 50 bucks in their pockets after a show. Those guys had a real passion for their music and did whatever they could to keep it alive.

So while browsing the interwebz i came across a trailer for a documentry that is coming out in early 2009 called One Nine Nine Four. It has a bunch of people (Fat Mike, creator of Fat Wreck Chords and lead singer/bassist of NOFX, Dexter, lead singer/guitarist of The Offspring, Greg Graffin, Lead singer of Bad Religion exc.) who have literally fought to keep Punk alive and how so many punk bands have changed the face of music as we know it.