OG Punk: Dina Goldstein

LEGIT NAME: William Hopeless

AKA: Billy Hopeless

AGE: never ask a lady 

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN THE PUNK SCENE, WHAT YEAR? First it was seeing the Ramones and New York Dolls on Don Kirshners Rock Concert then I used to watch this show called soundproof on cable access that showed underground music videos before mtv or much music even existed introduced me to punk bands like D.O.A ,the Subhumans, the Young Canadians , Snakefinger ext. as well as nonlocal acts like Shrink, Duran Duran and the Clash then we came friends and allies BEST PUNK MEMORY? there's been so many like playing CBGBS introducing DOA at the Smiling Buddha opening for bands like the misfits and New York Dolls ,but when a young girl and her mother came to meet me at one of my band the Black Halos warped tour dates and explained how our music had stopped her daughter from trying to kill herself that one always sticks with me as the holy moment HAS PUNK CHANGED MUCH SINCE THE 80'S? , IF SO HOW? Not really but yes as its always different when it's real .It's a mutating art as it should it's like a real cool virus that keeps on spreading . IS PUNK HERE TO STAY? ain't no cure for it yet it's like the blues as long as someone's feeling disenchanted , dis-satisfied , bored, sick of the crap ,outcast and unable to fit in , artistically inclined it will always be .