Once the bands stopped coming, people started to drop-out.” There’s not as many shows as there used to be, so there’s not as many straight-edge people. In the last four or five years it’s kind of diminished or fallen apart. There’s a band called AFB… Reno had a really solid straight-edge and hardcore. There’s 7 Seconds, which is one of the most famous hardcore punk bands ever. There’s a lot of really famous hardcore and punk bands from Reno. “There was an incredible hardcore and punk scene. “Reno actually used to have an incredible straight-edge scene, like disproportionately for the size of the city,” said Moore. It’s not for us, it’s just not my thing.”Īccording to Moore, Reno’s straight-edge punk scene has died down a bit. I know straight edge has a reputation of that because we don’t drink, do drugs or anything like that, that we hate people that do it and it’s not like that. Why would you do that?’ I think it’s hypocritical. It would be kind of fucked up of me to expect people to be cool with me when I’m like, ‘Hey I don’t drink’ and then on the other hand be like ‘well you drink, that’s stupid. Everybody’s got their own way of doing things. I think a lot of people don’t have as much control over their consumption as they think they do. I think a lot of people would benefit from questioning drugs’ and alcohol’s role in their life and how much of their consumption is based off desire and how much it’s based on habit or compulsion. There’s some people that can drink, do drugs and party and maintain a really normal life. You just don’t think about drinking because you don’t like it,” said Moore. “I liken it to like, think of a type of food you don’t like or a type of drink you don’t like. “I think people then look at us weird, because we don’t do this thing that is viewed as so normal, but we are just regular people outside of that… I knew if I started a habit really young that it would just get worse as time went on, so I didn’t want to partake at all.” “It’s just that one thing that society considers a normal thing that we don’t partake in,” James Moore, a current member of the straight-edge community, said. Some members even take it as far with not having sex and following a vegan diet. Pass out at the shows” the song then sparked the straight-edge movement. With provocative lyrics such as, “But I’ve got better things to do than sit around and smoke dope,” and “Hang out with the living dead. In 1981, a hardcore punk band by the name of Minor Threat released a song titled, “Straight Edge” where the band criticized the punk realm’s reckless lifestyle and called for people to think twice about the decisions they were making. The Sex Pistols bassist, Sid Vicious died from a heroin overdose and fans were also a subject to the consequences of excessive drug use. The ‘live fast, die young’ ideology was very much prevalent, although that lifestyle can come with severe consequences. Punk music provided a culture that invited thrash and heavy rock music and heavy drug-use. In 1970s and 1980s, the hardcore punk scene was ramping up in the music scene. However, there’s a strong subculture that uses the term to pride themselves and give themselves a community to which they belong. It’s commonly used by the younger generation to coin people who don’t party or go out very much. The term “Straight-Edge” has been thrown around when talking about people who aren’t risky or who don’t partake in drinking or recreational drugs. Photo taken by Spencer Chamberlin with permission to use.
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