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...People have had enough of problems, they just want them to go away," Joe Incagnoli '80, a first-semester sophomore and self-acclaimed punk, says. (Joe prefers his neighborhood nickname, "Lulla.") Incagnoli plays rhythm guitar for "Ricky and the Invaders," a local punk band from East Boston, where he grew...
...When you're faced with something like punk," Incagnoli says, comparing the new wave to disco, "it has to make you re-evaluate the society around you--it's sink or swim where I come from...
...general," he moans. He points out the differences in punk that hails from various cities, to emphasize the inadequacies of the general term. While the British punk rockers vomit on their audiences and cry for anarchy, Boston punk rock is at times nothing more than pure late-'50s-early-'60s rock'n'roll. Joe is quick to point out that punk is the song of a culture, and different cultures shape different songs...
...when you ask Joe what he'd really like to play, this hard-core punk says he loves the blues--"everything comes from the blues." Demonstrating on his guitar the three-chord progression central to all blues riffs, Joe looks up and complains that critics who acccept the blues make fun of punk for its "simplistic" chord progression...
...exactly the same thing," he says. "With the blues, the progression is a vehicle around which you tell a story, to convey a feeling using the guitar riffs and words--tell exactly what the meaning of the so. And it's exactly the same with punk. It's simplistic, but it has to be understood that it's only a vehicle around which the real meaning of the song...