WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE "NO FUTURE" GENERATION?

Don't know the real answer to this question but I may venture to quess that the parents of these "No Future" kids cut off the money support to their rebel causes subsequently causing hunger and other symptoms associated with not having any money or a place to live. The kids I'm guessing "woke up" and realized that being angry at the world and all that's associated with attitudes of pesimistic nature was counterproductive and left the rebel rousing to those who were financially secure enough to live that way. Just a guess..........

I don't think the peace, love, and hippie thing ended with the Stones in Altamont. Many friends of mine and people with whom I associate are still livin' the hippie lifestyle, minus the irresponsible, excessive drug use and having multiple sexual partners. We're a modern day," new age" hippie if you will. Less emphasis is put upon making an anti-social statement with ones style of dress and grooming habits and more emphasis is put on  social awareness and environmental causes.

The "No Future" slogan was a superb peice of writing. It was also a bit of future telling there too. I am not sure exactly when it was written or if It really was Johnny Lydon that wrote it down on paper, I tihnk maybe about 76 or 77 it was written? A few years later the torries got into governement. not just the torries but a woman called thatcher, and just look what she done to the UK. She and her party destroyed so much industry, family values, they gave a new meaning to life for teenagers and 16+ and of course home owners, Lot of home owners, let the tennants buy their council homes, let them get into debt wit hmortages, let the bank of england get risher and richer and let us tax them all and take more money off them. And then we will introduce the POLL TAX!!!! "let us "test" it on the scottish people first, if they dont like it tough, take their money" and that they did. One year later when it was an obvious distaerous mistake they introduced it to the rest of the UK to decide a year later it was a dreadful mistake and they set about plans to replace it by the council tax.

Now some might be asking what has this got to do with "no future" and punk music. Well that is what punk music is all about! It is not about sniffing glue and fighting and getting arrested while wearing pins through your nose, it is all about anti establishment, and that is why I really enjoy and admire a good punk song. The clash were probably one of the finest bands for the lyrics and music for the punk era.
There was plenty of other punk bands that never sang about anti establishemnt things but could play their instruments fast and get safety pin wearers jumping up and down.

So, No future was a great slogan. it is still happening today with a new party in power and probably will continue for kids to see they have no future until they do grow up and think ,I cannot keep going on like this, mouthing off going to demos, protesting about anything that the government done. They will realise they have to start living a life, working a job, paying taxes and getting sucked into the same position as every other "working tax paying slave" to the governement. We all end up "slaves to the grind"

When I was 11, just after the big punk era  i got into punk music and  got a hold of a syd vicious R.I.P t shirt. My mum threw it in the bin!! I got a relavitley tame sex pistols 7" record " black leather", my mum threw it out, even my white vinyl Expolited album ( which I am glad now since it was terrible)  well, what did this make me do? REBELL!! 11 year old wit hattitude, hating the governement without knowing what the word politics meant.
At 14 I was a bit wiser, not much but a bit. I still loved punk music although i was veering towards big country, U2, the alarm, simple minds, but I still kept my punk attitude all the time. By the time I was 15 and 16 I was seeing what " no future " meant, and I was in a place in my life when i just left school at the earlieist opporunity. No future was whacking me in the face every day. I moved down to london to look for a future as many scots were doing, instead of living in a cardboard box I found a lovely wee matress on the floor of my aunties house, on my cousins bedroom floor. This is where my life changed and started looking properly for my future. So skipping umpteen years and a few years at college, being an assistant manager for a garden centre for 11 years then finally in the job today as a production co ordinator and having a wife and weans ( kids) I found my future but I can still relate to youngsters today that think there is no future, there is always a future if you look or fight your way through to get it

and as for roger daltrey in 64 saying hope I die before i get old, although written by Pete Townshend, what is old?, they can still sing it because in their heart they are still young.lol

And I better not start on that or it will not be a book I am writing it will be a saga or epic or whatever a long long book is called ,lol

I've not wrote this much in ages about one subject. I have not even read back to see if it all makes sense or not, so sorry for the typing errors as I know there will be quite a few. and if it doesnt make sense to you then it might to someone younger or no one, but it made sense to me as I sat here typing it,

ok, ok, ok, I know, stop going on and on,:lol:

bye

Ken

I'm glad I played Anarchy in the UK on the Queens 25th anniversary

I'm glad I listened to the Tom Robinson Band and the Clash sing against Nazis

I'm glad I campaigned against nuclear weapons and vivisection.

I'm glad I supported the Miners strike and went to a benefits by the Redskins and Billy Bragg.

Im glad that was 20 years ago and I'm now an accountant living in suburbia.

I promessed to give you more information.
First about the Rolling Stones and Altamont, I agree with SouthPaw, but for most people "peace and love" was that event SYMBOLIC for the "hippie period. The are still people living in a "commune"and I don't understand what such a commune really means. If you live together with women and men, there have to problems, especially jealousy about men-women-men. SouthPaw, are there still a lot of these communes in the USA?
Back to punk: this movement is far underestimated. Punk ideology is concerned with the individual's intrinsic right to freedom, and a less restricted lifestyle. A lot of bands today, are more punk than they realise. The legacy is that even today we can find traces. It was an amazing subculture, which had a big impact on everything: ART  MUSIC (still inspiring a lot of bands) FASHION, ATTITUDE, for a lot of people, it was like a "gift". Like you have always people in a grey zone, neglected, not being popular, outcasts and here they found a lot in this movement. They followed like sheep, and discovered similar people AND A WAY TO BE NOTICED!! The punk style was already there, it is called PROTO-PUNK, Iggy Pop & Stooges, The Ramones (I loved the fact that they all had the same names, like Joey Dee Dee, Tommy, being the only still living Ramone). A real forgotten fact, that IS crucial, is the fact that the sexpistols manager, discovered tht new kind of music in New York, after seeing the NEW YORK DOLLS. (He had a fashion store and was on business trip. He even became their manager for a short time, because the NYD break up. With this knowledge, he started to form a group, "THE SEX PISTOLS". followed by other European bands. History repeats himself an like always, bands jump on the same train. The most famous besides the Sex Pistols and the Clash, the DAMNED but they all created fast, hard music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation.