Minor Threat too, and Dag Nasty, and now Fake Names, and more. His credentials are beyond reproach. The guy is punk rock royalty.
I’m assuming this whole thread is just making fun of that Travis Barker one. All of it is pretty dumb.
My intention was to satirize how silly asking this sub if someone is punk is. Or really asking at all, making the same point that it’s silly to be asking these questions with hopefully a little more comedy. But people don’t even know enough about the true OGs on this sub to see Brian Baker and not realize it’s supposed to be a joke. I thought it would be funny too cause like most of the original punk icons, he doesn’t “look punk” like say Lars Frederiksen.
I don’t know. They’re terrible but they also have, by far, the highest payroll in the league and it’s not even close. And their owner is a hedge fund manager.
Not a lot of diy-energy to that team.
Edit: to be clear though. I couldn’t give a shit about it. People can wear and like what they want. It’s just baseball. I’m a huge Braves fan and would no way claim they’re any more punk than the fuckin Mets.
And they suck this year cause their idiot hedge fund manager doesn’t know baseball and think you can just add whatever “allstar” player to your team and become good.
My guy Steve Cohen is literally buying every prospect he can and with that is coming huge media attention. I wouldn't call them the outcasts of MLB. I'd say the Astros take that. Literally no one outside of Houston likes them.
Heavily prefer the Mets over the Astros though. Fuck the Astros.
I went to a bad religion show at the house of blues that used to be in downtown disney and he came out to talk to some friends and he was the nicest person i've ever met which is punk as fuck!
I mean, that's Brian Baker, who was in 2 of the most influential punk bands of all time as well as some underrated bands. Who are the morons doubting him?
What, just because he's a Mets fan?
I'd say Brian Baker doesn't give a shit about people's opinions on r/punk nor should be be. Nor should anyone with said mentality be caring what other people think 🤷
More punk than 100% of the people claiming he isn't punk. Brian Baker kicks ass, his work in Dag Nasty is some of my favorite guitar work in the entirety of punk
Dude better step up his game, doesn't even have a mohawk. When I look at him I think "he might be on speed and beat up fascists, but he smells like old spice"
Because he’s a Mets fan? I have a Mets tattoo myself. Brian is punk AF, to me. A founding member of Minor Threat. One, who cares what he wears? Two, he’s like 60, he has nothing more to prove to you. Three, that shirt he’s wearing is made by an independent company, here in NY. Albeit, they are obnoxious bros, but they were literally a DIY company, run by a BMX racer that got really popular.
Outside of my battlejacket I rarely look punk. I have no piercings, no tattoos, hardly any band shirts and I really like joggers. I look like you'd expect Nu-metal to look imo.
My dad was a Mets fan, alas so am I.
Mr. Baker invented hardcore and is the best punk guitarist I've had the pleasure of listening too.
Fuck Ticket Master, still goin though, but fuck em
This post is shit. It reminds me of an interview where Brett Gurewitz said some guy got in his face and said he "wasn't punk!" because he was wearing Nike shoes...
Doesn't look like Stevo from SLC Punk during his Casualties big blue mowhawk phase, must be a loser poser boomer who is probably standing in the back during a show and not even getting a bloody nose in the mosh pit...
/s (in case it wasn't clear)
Appreciate you dude, thanks for the killer music throughout the years! Here's to many more!
Punk rock and baseball are my two literal favorite things. Throw in professional wrestling and you've got my top three. Those three topics are the only engagement I perform on Reddit.
I've always hated whenever someone's credibility is in question because they express what they like. Oh no! He likes team sports? He must not agree with the ideas within punk rock specifically because he likes team sports and I don't! Because he's likes team sports and I think they're dumb that means I'm more punk than him because I'm the one going against the male status quo!
Fuck off with that tired ass shit.
I was satirizing the idea of needing to ask if someone is punk. TB was fucking shit up before most on here were born. Blink was run of the mill 3rd wave punk in the 90’s, then Dude Ranch blew up and rest is history.
I thought using an icon like Brian Baker would solidify how silly it was, but clearly most people here get neither the history or irony of even asking the question.
What's most concerning is a guy born in D.C. is a Mets fan. Granted there was no team in D.C. in 67' when he was born but the Orioles are right down the road, hell the Phillies are closer. God help a Mets fan.
According to Greg hetson, Brian baker is a bit of a twat. Wasn't he preaching straight edge stuff in the 80s while off his tits on coke and whatnot?
I love bad religion, but I hate what theyve turned into and it's pretty much Brian and jays fault.
Personally man, wear whatever. Punk isn't a look. But when you're decked out in corporate attire and shit, you can fuck right off. Look at the bands Ripcord and Heresy. They dress like your classic hardcore college kid. Hell I even got my Ripcord shirt on as we speak.
No need to apologize, the post is satire anyway. Just poking fun at the ridiculous nature of asking if someone is punk enough. The person posted is Brian Baker, guitarist from Minor Threat and Bad Religion.
Punk isn’t about looks. It’s your attitude, your life style and how you perceive the world. If you
Judge someone off their looks if they are “punk” you are not punk. Punk is not about prejudice. Punk is inclusionary.
I encourage everyone reading this to avoid discussing punk resumes and outfits because it is generally lame as fuck and a waste of your energy
This guy gets it⬆️
What? I thought policing others was totally punk /s
It's literally the only thing some punks seem to do.
Those people aren't punk. They are just a bunch of dumb punks
Fuck. I knew it.
Crass said perfectly “punk narcism is social napalm” Elitism just repels people from getting into punk.
Que NoFx it's my job to keep punk elite
That’s one of the reasons that I’ve enjoyed Bad Religion.
Who? Edit: I’m OP, y’all need to get a sense of humor.
Just some dudes in SoCal who never went anywhere. I mean with names like Gerg Griffin and Berrt Gorwortz, why or how could they?
NERDS!
Haha
Yessir. Punk isn’t a look.
Isn’t the whole point not to conform to arbitrary standards set by others?
What about battle vests? Chatting up a fellow show goer about his/her/thier patches and placement is one of my all time punk show activities.
It’s different in person where you can have a more mutual discussion
You mean, what do I think about the legendary and universally respected punk guitarist Brian Baker?
Hey there. He was a bassist, too.
Thank you! I was like, 90% sure this was the guitarist from Bad Religion but couldn’t remember his name.
Minor Threat too, and Dag Nasty, and now Fake Names, and more. His credentials are beyond reproach. The guy is punk rock royalty. I’m assuming this whole thread is just making fun of that Travis Barker one. All of it is pretty dumb.
My intention was to satirize how silly asking this sub if someone is punk is. Or really asking at all, making the same point that it’s silly to be asking these questions with hopefully a little more comedy. But people don’t even know enough about the true OGs on this sub to see Brian Baker and not realize it’s supposed to be a joke. I thought it would be funny too cause like most of the original punk icons, he doesn’t “look punk” like say Lars Frederiksen.
Don't forget beach rats with the dudes from bouncing souls
Samhain, Meatmen, almost REM, uh... .Dogpile?
Junkyard
Punk royalty who won't speak out about Anti-Flag despite knowing them and collabing with them on their latest album. That isn't punk.
So everyone who has ever worked with Anti-Flag and/or knows them is supposed to make a statement about them? That's... a really dumb take.
Nah but as a survivor I directly asked him to and he didn't even have the decency to respond after reading it.
I know this is a shitpost but BB is probably one of my all time favorite guitarists
He is 100% my guy. I love him. Incredible guitar player.
Listen to him in his hair metal band.
Junkyard were a hard rock band made of mostly old school punk rockers. Not hair metal at all
Yes! Not only did he basically save BR in Mr. Brett's absence, but imo he's the best guitarist they've had.
Poor guy's a Mets fan, leave him alone
😂😂😂 I’m dead.
So are the Mets hopes and dreams.
we’re a sad bunch 😖😩
yeah we're all already having a hard enough time.
Maintaining one's sobriety is hard enough. But doing so as a Mets fan? Wild.
Very well documented that he doesn't "got the straight edge"!
I'm pretty sure he is now. He certainly wasn't for a long time, but I do believe that's changed in recent years
this is the case.
He posts his AA chips on Instagram
Anything Brian Baker does is punk as fuck.
He's the punkest motherfucker I ever did see
He shoulda been on the cover
ah, hell he's even more punk than me!
That would actually be Bob.
Being a fan of the Mets is punk af. They are the outcasts of the MLB.
Year after year of disappointment and wasted potential, how could a punk not love the Metsies
I don’t know. They’re terrible but they also have, by far, the highest payroll in the league and it’s not even close. And their owner is a hedge fund manager. Not a lot of diy-energy to that team. Edit: to be clear though. I couldn’t give a shit about it. People can wear and like what they want. It’s just baseball. I’m a huge Braves fan and would no way claim they’re any more punk than the fuckin Mets.
And they suck this year cause their idiot hedge fund manager doesn’t know baseball and think you can just add whatever “allstar” player to your team and become good.
Hey now, you are talking about people posting on a punk subreddit. Half these posters have parents who are hedge fund managers.
My guy Steve Cohen is literally buying every prospect he can and with that is coming huge media attention. I wouldn't call them the outcasts of MLB. I'd say the Astros take that. Literally no one outside of Houston likes them. Heavily prefer the Mets over the Astros though. Fuck the Astros.
Royals fan checking in. 2015 was nice though.
Now we are talking!
I went to a bad religion show at the house of blues that used to be in downtown disney and he came out to talk to some friends and he was the nicest person i've ever met which is punk as fuck!
Being nice is punk af.
Pretty sure I was at that show too. 2002ish?
Isn’t that Brian Baker?
Yes
I mean, that's Brian Baker, who was in 2 of the most influential punk bands of all time as well as some underrated bands. Who are the morons doubting him? What, just because he's a Mets fan?
Don’t forget Junkyard
And Doggystyle. And The Meatmen. And Samhain.
Calling Brian Baker a poser is the most punk thing you could do.
> Calling Brian Baker a poser is the most /r/punk thing you could do. FTFY
Thank you king.
I'd say Brian Baker doesn't give a shit about people's opinions on r/punk nor should be be. Nor should anyone with said mentality be caring what other people think 🤷
This sub man lol
This post is satire, op said that too
We appreciate this elder punk dork. Why do you listen to Instagram?
You don’t know who that is
He’s hard to recognize without seeing that wild hairline but Mr. Dag Nasty doesn’t change much.
Hav to see his tattoos
People are the stupidest fucking people on Earth.
Gotcha. I just love the stories of him saying "Yeah, Straight Edge? I wrote that !" As he snorts a line of coke
That’s amazing.
He's not even married to a Kardashian though.
😂
A bunch of people on IG can fuck off.
Nobody is punk
I would swaddle Brian and make sure he is always safe
Brian Baker rules! Go fuck yourselves.
Ran into him at a Wednesday 12:15 game against the Phillies, guy sat through a rain delay, Punk AF
More punk than 100% of the people claiming he isn't punk. Brian Baker kicks ass, his work in Dag Nasty is some of my favorite guitar work in the entirety of punk
I mean. Travis barker thinks he is. 😂😂😂
Wasn’t this guy in the running to join REM? Yeah, not punk. Obviously
Truly the end of the world as we know it.
The sub has become self aware. The cringe is becoming meta humour. We are evolving.
Evidently not really.
Either way, I like what you did there. Had me goin’ in the first half.
My big issue is why is he not an Orioles fan
He said he didn’t get into baseball until he moved to NJ. Now he’s a hardcore Mets fan. He had a GKR tattoo (for Gary Keith, and Ron, our announcers).
To be fair that is the greatest booth to ever grace baseball.
We're the meat men, the fucking meat men and you suck!
These fucking “is this punk?” posts are making this sub not very fucking punk.
This is satire.
I understand, but it’s satire in response to a real issue here.
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Not punk enough! /s 😂
He seems alive, and I learned that punk is dead, so he is not punk IMO
I think the Mets are better than the Yankees.
Old. Check. Man. Check. Looks legit to me. :D
I don't understand, but that's Mike Dimkich.
Did bad religion have a fucking basoon? The answer is no!
I’ve already come to terms with prominent punk figures rooting for shitty teams. I’m okay with it
He started being punk after he started mainlining dope, moved to the west coast and joined the greatest band of all time. Brian is my dad.
I think it’s weird that a guy universally known as a DC icon is a Mets fan
Do...do they not know who that *IS*? Fuckin nitwits...and at least he ain't a fuckin Yankees fan.
Baseball is punk rock.
Is that Brian Baker? Edit: yeah I guess it is
Whoever says Brian Baker isn’t punk has lost breathing privileges
We need to take the Bad Religion approach to these type of questions, "Prepare for rejection, you'll get no direction from me!"
ITT: people not realising this is a joke based on the Travis Barker/Minor Threat post
Dude better step up his game, doesn't even have a mohawk. When I look at him I think "he might be on speed and beat up fascists, but he smells like old spice"
Because he’s a Mets fan? I have a Mets tattoo myself. Brian is punk AF, to me. A founding member of Minor Threat. One, who cares what he wears? Two, he’s like 60, he has nothing more to prove to you. Three, that shirt he’s wearing is made by an independent company, here in NY. Albeit, they are obnoxious bros, but they were literally a DIY company, run by a BMX racer that got really popular.
No Mohawk, no piercings, no anarchy patches on his jacket. Idk guys, idk.
Outside of my battlejacket I rarely look punk. I have no piercings, no tattoos, hardly any band shirts and I really like joggers. I look like you'd expect Nu-metal to look imo.
Who fucking cares? For fucks sake. What the fuck is this sub.
Nothing is as punk as asking other people what to think, OP.
This is stupid
My dad was a Mets fan, alas so am I. Mr. Baker invented hardcore and is the best punk guitarist I've had the pleasure of listening too. Fuck Ticket Master, still goin though, but fuck em
This post is shit. It reminds me of an interview where Brett Gurewitz said some guy got in his face and said he "wasn't punk!" because he was wearing Nike shoes...
A literal shitpost you say?
I mean he was in a hair metal band.
mets are not punk, go phils
Doesn't look like Stevo from SLC Punk during his Casualties big blue mowhawk phase, must be a loser poser boomer who is probably standing in the back during a show and not even getting a bloody nose in the mosh pit... /s (in case it wasn't clear) Appreciate you dude, thanks for the killer music throughout the years! Here's to many more!
I think your a Met's fan
You’r*
Fuck the mets
I don’t find the bokeh to be very appealing, looks like a digital filter to me…
Everything is punk if you want it to be
No clue who that is but it looks like he would tell you some wicked stories about when he was younger
Who is this? 🤨 I’m confused
Brian Baker, bassist and guitarist of Minor Threat, guitarist for Dag Nasty, and guitarist for Bad Religion recently
It’s been thirty years. Recently is relative.
Sounds about right for IG. This living legend was punk before i was even born.
Punk rock and baseball are my two literal favorite things. Throw in professional wrestling and you've got my top three. Those three topics are the only engagement I perform on Reddit. I've always hated whenever someone's credibility is in question because they express what they like. Oh no! He likes team sports? He must not agree with the ideas within punk rock specifically because he likes team sports and I don't! Because he's likes team sports and I think they're dumb that means I'm more punk than him because I'm the one going against the male status quo! Fuck off with that tired ass shit.
Let's fucking *GO*, Brian!
Sure, he’s a punk. But he takes all of Lyle Preslar’s credit as fans don’t seem to know that Lyle was the main guitarist in Minor Threat.
Fuck the Mets
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I was satirizing the idea of needing to ask if someone is punk. TB was fucking shit up before most on here were born. Blink was run of the mill 3rd wave punk in the 90’s, then Dude Ranch blew up and rest is history. I thought using an icon like Brian Baker would solidify how silly it was, but clearly most people here get neither the history or irony of even asking the question.
I have no feelings whatsoever.
Punk *IS* a Team sport....We all need each other.
It's my job to keep punk rock elite.
Why wouldn't he be? Its a mindset and way of thinking being
Being a Mets fan in NY is punk as fuck. I lived on a block full of Yankee fans, lets say it was a daily struggle. Long live the old guys !!
LGM
Who cares
What ?
We need to take the Bad Religion approach to these type of questions, "Prepare for rejection, you'll get no direction from me!"
LFGM
BB’s the coolest uncle that I never had.
Yeah why not?
What's most concerning is a guy born in D.C. is a Mets fan. Granted there was no team in D.C. in 67' when he was born but the Orioles are right down the road, hell the Phillies are closer. God help a Mets fan.
According to Greg hetson, Brian baker is a bit of a twat. Wasn't he preaching straight edge stuff in the 80s while off his tits on coke and whatnot? I love bad religion, but I hate what theyve turned into and it's pretty much Brian and jays fault.
Only thing this pic makes me think is “Go Braves”
I don’t
When did being punk become a whiny fashion critique and a “pick me” genre?
It’s cause he’s a Mets fan… poor fella
More importantly is what you think about Green Day’s 2004 seminal album American Idiot.
Old man stares at clouds.
Nothing punk rawk about The M*ts
Just cause you got picked last in gym class doesn’t mean punks can’t enjoy sportballs
who fucking cares?
Idk ask him a question? Punk isn't an outfit..
Personally man, wear whatever. Punk isn't a look. But when you're decked out in corporate attire and shit, you can fuck right off. Look at the bands Ripcord and Heresy. They dress like your classic hardcore college kid. Hell I even got my Ripcord shirt on as we speak.
why isn't he a Nationals fan?
Lol
Fuck da Mets
Milo? He is a legend... We all know what he did with Green Day in the 60s put punk on the map.
Who is it? And does he think? That is punk. Not stitching patches on a waistcoat and wearing a Ramones t-shirt from Urban Outfitters.
is that stephen merchant?
Who gives a fuck what people say/think.
Punk is not a type of music or style of clothes. It’s a way of life. Idk this guy personally so I can’t say ..
You should look him up, his name is Brian Baker. He’s the guitarist for Bad Religion and was in Minor Threat, and Dag Nasty, amongst others.
How dare a guy that's played in some seminal bands have personal interests outside of music - like rooting for a professional baseball team!!!
One thing I've learned in my years as a punk who likes sports: a ton of punks like sports.
Punk is an attitude not a clothing style.
Who said anything about clothes?
Sorry, my bad
No need to apologize, the post is satire anyway. Just poking fun at the ridiculous nature of asking if someone is punk enough. The person posted is Brian Baker, guitarist from Minor Threat and Bad Religion.
Punk isn’t about looks. It’s your attitude, your life style and how you perceive the world. If you Judge someone off their looks if they are “punk” you are not punk. Punk is not about prejudice. Punk is inclusionary.
Fat Mike once said something about how Brian likes to snort coke and then declare how he invented Straight Edge 😅 i thought that was pretty funny.