BY BOB KRASNER | Punk. Nostalgia.
If you were there, it never would have occurred to you that 40 years after the birth of Punk magazine, John Holmstrom and company would be at the Howl! Happening Gallery celebrating the anniversary of a 50-cent rag that wanted to be MAD magazine more than it wanted to be Rolling Stone.
Punk published 15 unforgettable issues from 1976 to 1979, and there have been a few revivals since then.
The somewhat ragged survivors of that legendary scene came out to celebrate with original contributors Robert Romagnoli, Godlis, Roberta Bayley, Ken Weiner and musicians Lenny Kaye, Martin Rev and Handsome Dick Manitoba, among others, amid displays of period art and memorabilia.
While it may not have brought you back to a night at CBGB, artist Marlene Weisman noted that the party was “a whole lot better than that P.T.A. meeting that I was supposed to go to.”
