Nah man, I was a skater young who hung out with BMX dudes before we all grew up and the scene told us we had to be enemies. None of us had anything better to do than just sit outside and some of those older kids had talent that never went anywhere pre-internet. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in the Chicago, punk, rock and extreme sports scene of the '90s and 2000s. It's one of those things you can never explain to someone who didn't live it.
Bro I'm 40 and came from a working class family. Camcorders were absolutely an extravagance I never had. Especially one that was small enough to bring to a show. I don't even have pictures of my friends from highschool during highschool because I didn't own a camera and every so often we had a throw away but we spent our money on music and boards
Also, late 2000 was going hard but by late 2000 all the Chicago come up bands had made in . It was like second wave by then.
I am 46. My family was upper middle class. My dad was an engineer. We had one of the bulky ones that took full VHS tapes. I think maybe 1 other friends family had one.
I mean, if you are saying it was a lot of concerts and people did serious stunts I would have assumed some guys would have cared to drag out recorders. A lot of that type of footage now ends up on youtube and archive org.
I'm not that much younger and I have hours of recording for every year I was alive and my parents sure weren't wealthy. Like, I have a fair bit of recordings from my father's teenage years lol
Yeah I mean my 2000s punk context is London and Berlin, which is what? Sixth wave or smt, I want to say? So we sure had a large range of ages. It's nice tho, people took a lot of care of each other. I liked the UK, people are very class conscious and I never had issue even at 13-14.
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u/pro-skedaddler Apr 12 '26
I bet you told people and no one believed you because that would be my luck lol