We Destroy the Family: Punks vs Parents (1 of 3) 1982

[@PhilosophyCat]

So let me get this straight... the parents read their daughter's diary and can't believe she doesn't trust them... and somehow "punk" is ruining their family. I think a lack of logical thinking and mutual respect are more likely culprits, but that's just silly ole me.

[@NightCity91]

'but its guarenteed to scare any parent who see's it' what! My dad dropped me and my buds off at a D.O.A. show back in the day and he came in to see the show and he told me 'this is fucking awesome!'

[@needmypunk]

twenty 5 years later, im hear drinking a cheap bottle of wine

[@gogoyubari366]

Here not hear.

[@pastafiend845]

This comment is so funny dude holy shit... like it's so out of context 🤣

[@xv00jd]

Unreal. Sometimes I forget just how amazing punk… was.

[@jamescaliendo1030]

Lolol so glad I grew up a GenXer in the 80s. I'm 50 now and still listen to FEAR and punk rock everyday whether in my rig or on my Harley

[@SPXclothing]

I remember seeing this on the news when I was 13. I cut my long hair and started listening to Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and FEAR. It seemed like everyone in So.Cal was getting into the scene. This is where all the action was! I miss those days.

[@usmcchet]

Saw Fear back in the 80's when I was a kid. Best show ever.

[@cooliovasquez]

I want to hear the whole live video of that performance.

[@Cahoula]

Good FEAR footage.

[@maharpadooaphone]

"Love your friends, love your family and you will love life." -Johnny Rotten

[@stevencorsoe9575]

I remeber when fear performed on Saturday night...It was a wake up call for the world!!!

[@KarlMcMAn]

I'm 30 and I still listening to them

[@kryyptyyk]

I fucking love FEAR. Lee Ving forever!

[@mzaputil]

Was at this Fear show at what use to be Devonshire Downs here in the SFV in early 82.. I had just turned 22 and was on the streets. Punk rock doesn't destroy the family, a sick family unit eats itself from within. In my case it was with an alcoholic, violent father. Of course I loved this music, it matched the rage and hate I felt every hour of every day, but I'm talkin' the power of the music, I took the lyrics for what they were, great parody and satire. Stupid folks can't seem to figure that out, but the kids(most of them) can.. What music I listened to isn't what would fuck up my mind, it was the constant bullshit in my family and school. Yet what bothered my mother most is if I played a Fear record and hearing the lyric "piss on yer warm embrace, I just wanna cum in your face". The damage had already been done long before I brought Black Sabbath, or Fear, or Dead Kennedys records into the house, hell I was already dropping acid at 14 just to get away from my reality. But that was then, this is now...

[@Brewzerr]

Well said. That was pretty much the case for me too, except for me it was a violent alcoholic mom. My dad was out of the picture by the time I was 8 years old. The family was already destroyed, and I never had any say in the matter. I was pissed off 24-7 and punk provided the perfect release for my pent-up aggressions. I could go to a show and get all that shit out of my system for a couple of hours. Less expensive than seeing a shrink and a LOT more fun. I guess I was fortunate in one way though - punk never freaked out my mom the way it freaked out so many other parents back then. She had been a wild kid herself in the 60’s and at least understood that the stuff I was into was better than living a lie by conforming to the preppie world because that’s what I was supposed to do. Plus she never bought into the media’s sensationalized bullshit take on punks. Now I’m in my 50’s and have a family of my own, wife and son... and we’re thick as thieves. Punk taught me to get that part right. So much for punk “destroying the family”.

[@thielees]

The commentary is the most objective I've heard in one of these "punk = killer bees, everyone be scared" news channel treatments. They seem to get what's going on.

[@GRobb62]

@59TV i have seen Fear twice, never thought about going to a Ruch concert....

[@pfordsq]

@Dawgisht I think that's where he originally said "No more Jim Jones" , but , it's been a while since I played the album.

[@alejandroramirez4470]

Awesome how it had to be fear as the featured band

[@seancarlson8278]

Back then if a show was priced at 8.50 it would be an all day show of 5 to 8 bands. Typically a 1 band show would be just a couple of bucks if that. This was a lot of money for us then.

[@luckycomehawaii]

Great PR for them back in the day! Lee Ving is smart great album did I say album?

[@speeddemon1527]

New York's Alright, if you like saxaphones!!

[@stevencorsoe9575]

This was our scene not scary not tragic and not blind...We were the revolt generation...Not the generation that were close minded...we had and still have freedom to disagree with politicians and government.

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

I'm 58 and spent many minutes in mosh pits and as a skinny dude who got knocked down a lot, big dudes would always pick me up, awesome experience

[@Patrick-t6f]

52.....Social Distortion w/ Crippled by Society....open act....1989 we took a Greyhound from Laredo Texas to San Antonio... .always helped out a fellow punker up from the floor......

[@sarahzahn]

"Believe it or not, this is not a full scale riot..." HA!

[@apebrain07]

That was a TON of money back then . I was at this show in feb '82

[@spikesification]

...those crazy kids!...

[@Anthony-o2t8v]

Crazy song crazy lyrics

[@PUNCHYOURFACEreal]

My dad grew up going to punk shows so he knows what's going on and not worried

[@downallyourstreets]

sooo muthafuckin incredible!

[@Bacchus1983]

The good old days before punk was PC.

[@TheHasselBoff]

"I love livin in the city!"

[@skinhead5]

Punkers. I hated being called a punker. I am a skinhead. The kids were either skins or skaters. We liked the hardcore punk of our times. Punk rock was the 1970's. Kids of the early 80's we ruled.

[@zickscittswinn]

that looks so fun.

[@seancarlson8278]

No, none of us - as I saw in S.F. - helped bums but we left them alone. All of the bands back then sang about the realism of the Reagan years, politics, and the breakdown of American society during this period. Fear wasn't a peace punk band like Crucifix or Circle One who sang against the mindless violence that perpetrated the scene but even they sang about realism. It wasn't much difference than Sham 69 or Conflict in England.

[@BillMentzer]

Know your enemies... ...Tony Danza got me a job!...

[@TruSkoolHooligan]

@KarlMcMAn Me too. In fact, they are even more relevant now, than they were back then. I play Live...For the Record at least 1nce a month.

[@mc5859]

And SoCal Gets Some Love Too! Equal Opportunity Offenders The Mighty FEAR!

[@Soundgardener80]

Bet nobody fucked with Lee Ving back in the day

[@admiralzoog]

If you go to any popular concert now it is nothing like that

[@duanerichardson1]

Yes

[@HeadBap]

BEEF BEEF BEEF !!! BEEF BALOGNA !!!!

[@TheStutteringPrick]

Greatest Publicity for Punk was that your parents were supposed to be scared of it!

[@frdh1357]

"Just cuz we're different they have a spazz attack."

[@TheCODhatesme]

it's pretty hard to destroy something thats already broken

[@lundkvist]

Punk IS family

[@raybeez55]

have a beer with fear

[@Bouchon211]

If you actually bothered to watch the video and listen to what Lee Ving said you would realize you are wrong. They ARE being realistic and that's what makes it effective at showing how fucked up the world is. "Fear's music is satire, grotesque satire but satire nonetheless. That's probably not much comfort for parents if their kids are young, unsophisticated and take the punk message seriously."

[@fakeis751]

FUCKK, IF I WAS A KID IN THE EARLY 80S AND I SAW THIS I WOULD BE FUCKING RUNNING TO THE NEXT FEAR GIGGG

[@admiralzoog]

whats wrong with having fun controlled violence is right, who cares if people think they are all fighting each other they arent and thats what matters its just fun. i wish i lived in this time period

[@PukeFlower293]

@badsign1980 It's not over, man, it's just very underground... fuck, I'm going to see a punk show in less than a week, and I will make sure to have a great time!!

[@sodapapa]

@fakeis751, that's exactly what me and my friends did! It was the greatest advertising and airplay for punk at the time!!!

[@Dawgisht]

"No More (inaudible)"

[@egg22twotwo]

my dad was a this concert

[@MrXmyselfx]

What band sang the "We Destroy The Family" song?

[@pastaboy9371]

Fear, the band in the video

[@nibo1980y]

hahaha in the subtitles: 'no more s_ _ _ a _ _ philosophy'

[@skinheadyouth66]

Epic

[@skinhead5]

There is no sound here.

[@justametalhead625]

+Carl Nieves Yes there is.

[@NumberOneCookieMuncher]

This is hilarious. The times have changed.

[@seanbrown1933]

my parents bearly let Mr get a mohwak

[@Zopf-international]

Bearly.. lol.

[@TIMBO92804]

LEE VING IS GOD!

[@veritasaequitas4296]

Censored from 5:31 "NO MORE PLASTIC!"

[@seekandcrush]

what if your parents are punk?

[@NathanLJustice]

All this debate over FEAR. It was a large joke. It was an Andy Kaufman type prank. Stop waxing poetic on this.

[@rifletwist]

Country Club?

[@kurly3918]

This made me laugh

[@Soundeagle3456]

it frustrates me that the media used parents as the excuse to shut down and completely destroy a good wholesome scene. As if all parents really saw this as a negative thing.

[@MrAorX]

true

[@brianbirc]

People should thank PUNK ROCK it is a great music that let the stand up for the truth and yourself of Generation X the punks calm their aggression with the bullshit in life. It is not criminals creating victims! We just enjoy shocking people and thinking of the people they complain to laughing about it. Succeeding where the hippies failed.

[@SusanUpstairs]

Mr Body!

[@flemingia]

I always laugh about how punks were portrayed in the 80s.

[@hexRQP]

I lol'd

[@acollectivunfair4101]

Nice.

[@acollectivunfair4101]

A Collectiv Unfair? Yeah, well so what. Its hard to get any sort of popularity in music that isnt aggressive.

[@acollectivunfair4101]

A Collectiv Unfair? Its not like its serious anyways. The FBI CIA and NSA funded Punk in the first place as a gang accident of activism. Its entirely supposed to be meaningless fun. - XXX

[@acollectivunfair4101]

A Collectiv Unfair? Modern day Johnny Cash. Right on. Long live Rock 'n' Roll.

[@kevil665]

these guys were comody,haha....haha

[@manuelkong10]

"it's a daily crisis" hahaha remember when the world ended back then?? me neither

[@Finnbarrs]

Good music era! But with all trends and fashions, you learn, if you are wise, that this was just a part of a bigger psy op to break up the family. Looking at today, how far it has come, it is obvious these were the beginning stages.

[@jennrotten]

Why punks and parents clash in a "suburban battle zone" I'm laughing my ass off. At least there are some decent FEAR clips.

[@sharonmanning2065]

I remember being assigned to watch this for school and at some point seeing myself walking around, almost unrecognizable and thinking, this idiot didn't understand anything that was going on, wait a minute, wasn't that a song lyric?

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

as reported by Paul Moyer, a wannabe poorman's Tom Snyder

[@Screwyoupal45]

an anti punk news program? this is the best!

[@forward300]

FEAR doesnt give a fuck about bums

[@fakeis751]

@coldfries cool, man!

[@swimologist8]

Yeah, now with bands like Green Day.

[@PahubianInfluence666]

damn you 240p.....

[@barbqpope1970]

Fear more beer

[@MrChattyO]

A daily crisis? What were yer parents doing behind closed doors? The 80's were void and this is the only outlet kids had!!!

[@MrXmyselfx]

Oh nevermind

[@dylancolt6233]

LOL...that's awesome.....The decline of western civilization Part I

[@poopooopooopism]

lol hes just washing his face

[@miketv2331]

oh fucking wah

[@duanerichardson1]

Guess what? You're wrong. I should know......I was the bum Lee helped out.

[@HunterTiberisBojangles]

No more nothin...

[@moonieparone]

I was taking the piss Bud,your right.And I need help :) nice come back but...I dont care about you!!

[@Jerkoffkid]

haah kid was washing his face and they make him look like hes suffering

[@emilianochavez2132]

Bizarre and frightening xD wtf

[@punkgrl325]

Lmao! I can't take this documentary seriously.

[@monalisa0212]

What

[@soulessENERGY]

I don't believe in peace.

[@jonoortrev]

ah perfect needed this for my dissertation on Punk, needed something else apart from American Hardcore telling me how shit the entire of America is.

[@punkinglad13]

me to but its so fucking funny

[@TDEL88]

Hilarious