what the fuck is a crusty these days?

They stay up all nite on the rooftops here blasting it. Love Love.

I'm from the UK and was part of the original crust punk scene in the late '80's - we were into bands like Doom, Extreme Noise Terror, Electro Hippies, Hellbastard, Amebix, Antisect etc. All of these bands are descended from Crass lyrically and Discharge / Motorhead musically.... Primitive is correct 'crust punk' was a very specific thing - most of us were vegan and heavily into animal rights, politically we were @narchists and if there was a demo on we were fuckin there... (someone once commented 'you're anti bloody anything except your bloody selves' : this was exactly right ! RESIST ! OPPOSE ! )............... and then a shit festival band called The Levellers came along and pretty much overnight 'crusty' referred to any drop out bum with dreadlocks, combat boots, and a dog on a string. whatever there politics. and whatever their fucked up state - as Primitive said no 'real / original' crust punker would have a habit on the old Fleetwood Mac - heroin was for fools in the inner cities - next thing you know half the people you meet on the road have got the 'Bristol flu' and 'could I borrow a tenner like NOW please ?'......... I can see lots of parallels between the UK travelling scene of the 80's and 90's and the dirty kid scene in America - will try and do some posts on the subject

JimH1991 said:

Go to a place called Petersburg in upstate NY. That place has been pretty anarchist since way back with the individualist anarchists. No sheriff or law around because they cut the budget for the town and eliminated in. Cool people there may be some cool punk houses but idk if you would have to be vetted or if they are open. They are now in their 30s a lot of them and no longer have a tolerance for bull shit. There are loads of fests around the region, I'm sure you would meet some cool folks. I sort of miss NY, but then I don't haha.

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Dude do you have any more info about this? I am from upstate and have hitched thru rt 2 a number of times but never stopped there because it looks totally unassuming like a random upstate town. I am about to be working on an upstate radical network that links communities all over the state, especially rural. I am heading up there soon anyway perhaps ill just hang around town a few days.