Most early New Orleans punk bands didn’t even get a chance to record or put out a record. Director Al Champagne, his production partner Pablo Romero-Estevez and cameraman Andrew Mayeux have been working on Almost Ready: The Story of Punk Rock in New Orleans for over two years, attempting to piece together a recent history of a scene that didn’t leave many artifacts behind. New Orleans never produced a nationally famous punk band but ideally, the concept of fame doesn’t matter to punk, does it? I like to think about how punk rock eventually creeped into every crevice of our country and made its mark, no matter how small the scene. It’s like a fresh start in life that a lot of people never get to experience. It’s about that transformational moment and how good it feels to discover something that makes everything new again. It could be Ian McKaye's story or my friend’s, but I put equal weight on those anecdotes because it’s not about who it happened to or how well-known they became. I could ask a million different people how they found out about punk and what it meant to them when they did, and never get bored of hearing the variety of answers.
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