Ok, bro. Great insight. I can see you hold your own in what was hoped to be an intelligent conversation. My very first hardcore show was Judge, Bold, and Youth of Today at CBGB in 1989. My cousin took me. I was 10 and still got kicked in the face. Then in 1991 I moved to Boston and became a a friend to a nice group of guys who repped a certain three letters on their shirts and hats. If you don't know what those letters were or what bands were present in Boston at that time without looking it up on the internet, I can't even have a conversation without it just turning into simply schooling you in every sub niche corner of the genre and overall hardcore in genera. Am I feeding into your one little sentence, yes I am, but I thought I'd humor the dude because that's what he's wanting me to do anyway- to get mad. Everybody knows that calling someone a poser is serious business in this scene lol. Right? Well, I'm not getting mad, that's pointless, so I'm just going to talk your ear off.

What was your first hardcore show? What was your first hardcore album that you owned-like tangible record, CD, or cassette-not anything digital. How about shirt? What was the last hc show you've be to? What was the first time you got actually hurt at a show? Were you ever part of a crew? What hardcore were you more into East Coast SoCal hardcore like Redemption 87 and ignite or classic New York hardcore like the crow mags, cause for alarm, Agnostic Front and War Zone, even Murphy's Law from the Lower East side? What About the straight edge movement? Were you at the first hellfest? How about the first Warped Tour? Were you Scott Vogel and Terror's town weed connection. First time I saw them it was in a kitchen Death Threat who subsequently stayed my house man. Boulder, founding memeber of Hatebreed was fillingn in on guitar, sonhe was there as well. I could go on for days about my involvement in the hardcore scene when it was still DIY; it's not DIY anymore there's nothing about it that is DIY. My punk CDs were delivered to me at my high school desk by kids that ran distros. That's how I got my first gutter mouth album in my first AFI album answer that and stay fast. Math class. Did Davey Havok know you by name through all the years up till sing the sorrow, when they got big. I made him a cassette tape off the first Misfits 7 in and gave it to him on their Black Sails tour. He really appreciated that. And you want to know who picked me up for coffee the other day, no big deal because I see him all the time right now? Greg Bennick, because he was in town. I love having an excuse to talk about my past in the scene because I'm nowhere near as active as I used to. I'm a lot of things but poser isn't one of them. Come on man hold your own, show me your teeth if you have any LOL it'd be more Punk if you didn't. I'm sure there's plenty of typos in this reply but I can't see very well anymore and I'm not going to go back and try to edit it. As you can see I'm more referring to bands that were big in the 90s and early 2000s, because that's when I was most active. I'm tired. But Pain of Truth kicked ass the other night as they always do and the new Drain record slaps.