CRASS - PENNY RIMBAUD TALKS (2007) Pt. 1 of 8

Artist / musician / activist Penny Rimbaud talks at The NEXNE Music Convention in Stockton, about his life and the hugely influential / controversial political punk band / organisation he founded called CRASS (1977-1984).

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

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• crass
• punk
• penny
• rimbaud
• anarchist
• stockton
• teesside
• pancrack

[gibsones295sturbo]

wow.. he looks & sounds like nik turner... i thought i would check out some crass after my local pub put a crass burger on there menu and got a sweet visit from one of there members..:) nice 1

[pancrack]

@gibsones295sturbo ha! whats in the Crass burger????

[MickeyLove01]

He's a phony, a middle class twerp called jeremy for fucks sake.

[pancrack]

@MickeyLove01 are you genuine working class hippy Mr. Love? or a "name-ist" inverted snob??? :-)

[MickeyLove01]

@pancrack I'd say working class with some middle class values. Not or never have been a "hippie" as I've always worked whereas hippies are known for their laziness, well sometimes. But rather than ask a question you could agree with me surely pumpkin? What I said is basically true.

[pancrack]

@MickeyLove01: If I believed in what u said was basically true I could agree with you. But I dont and I dont believe in class either - whatever class - punk and hippy to me were distinctly against such restrictive conventional conservative notions! Tear down the walls and know the real enemy. And question everything. Punk, peace n organic pumpkins

[digitalPOO]

Essential punk band! Penny is a quality human being. And Crass always made me smile for all the right reasons,still do in fact!

[jacquelinet101]

Its good to see Penny after 40 years. Back when I was an art student at Loughton College he was one of my teachers with Janet, David, Phil ,Paul et al. I'm in SF. does anyone know if he will be in the bay area for any reason.

[jackamo23]

While the power/knowledge/control matrices have evolved in ways that were unimaginable when anarcho-punk was at its peak in the early 80s, what has not evolved in any way shape or form is the stories we tell each other about ourselves judging by the comments below. We were having the same conversations (albeit face to face) thirty years ago about punks and hippies and you would have thought by now such tired binary oppositions would have been consigned to the dustbin of cultural history by now.

[gnowave]

@earinsound it all depends buddy. you'll always get little circles of folk in each town, or enclaves in the cites that use marijuana and pschedelix really well and they get some good useful scenes together. but in the housing scheme i grew up kids get sold full stength weed and get fukt up.

the last few "hardcore" punk events i was at half were speed freaks flexing muscles and egos, the other half were drug free and rascist. i got fed up and left

[earinsound]

@gnowave

are you sure that people who smoke pot are lazy and worthless?

[wyrda222]

Respond to this video... dunno what he expected out of the clash..so what if joe strummer had a mercedes?

[wyrda222]

@MickeyLove01 dont be such a sucker

[gnowave]

STONERS are known for their laziness who ever they are... any hippies i kno are out working all the time, (dont get work and job confused), like running co-ops, volunteering for various schemes the government wont fund, or corporates wont support, helping support villagers and islanders get up and running with real sustainable developemnt schemes. organic farming, running a commune... but then, what is a hippy? and why are we still going on about class? job or work? boss or freedom?

[gnowave]

for me class distinction is a remnant of industrialism/imperialism, and its obviously been successful, as many working class folk (am one) seem to do all the fighting to keep their landlord/boss/lord's work force seperated from the rest of society.

fuk the lot, drop out, time for a shift... but isnt it always?

and then, most of the precious working class punx i kno just get pissed, take speed and wallow in their egos and pub kudos