The Misfits

Maybe it’s hard to understand but many years ago Misfits was a great Hardcore band and not the joke they are today. If you actually could get hold of a Misfits shirt with the now famous fiend logo back in the early nineties you would’ve ruled the scene at least where I’m from. As we all know it’s a little bit different these days and these days I wear my Misfits shirt everyday in a shape of a tattoo. I won’t lie to you that band changed my life and I have had some great moments listening and drinking to their music. So what I’m getting at is this; does anyone know where they got there name? I’ll tell you, it’s from a movie with the very same name starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. This also happens to be the last movie for both Gable and Monroe and many of her fans sees this as her very best performance. Even if the title of the movie doesn’t reefer directly to the main characters which is a bunch of outcasts and so called Misfits. They're four different persons kinda pushed aside and together by society this made me think of the staff here at HepTown Records. Punks, everyone with different issues and stories. Misfits that according to the social norms that should have gotten "real" jobs a long time ago. Don’t get me wrong now because this is a choice we made and with pride we walk the paths that we now do. Even if as I said we all ended up where we are cause society forced us to, their society. Now I’m going to quote Mr. Skratch out of Skratchs Garage (duh) “They kept me on the outside all my life, never tried to make friends or even talk to me. That’s why in the end we all end up together. And now suddenly they wanna be friends with me and you know what Francke? That’s not even a option fuck em’ I never needed that shit anyways” Although this maybe not is exactly what he said to the last word you get the point. I’m not bitter or trying to make martyrs out of us, it’s just the truth and everybody can see it. So I never really considered myself as a part of their society then Rob said something I can’t look beside. Because I choose to be different, dress different, act different and look different I’m actually just doing as I’m supposed to and I’m only different to their standards. Ouch! But as the time is it’s all we got Jand it’s the very best we can do
So here’s the HepTown Crew: Svegis from The Bristles and The Negatives a real Swedish Punk legend. Chris Steen that together with me plays in Vervain and have been in many, many Punk bands his whole life. He never kept a job or went to a school that he didn’t drop out of. Rob our “boss” who’s been a part of the scene his whole life as a driver, merch seller and a whole lot of other things that I can’t even name. Me myself and I who discovered Punk at the end of the 80s and never looked back. And ahh now I remember there’s another more accurate word for people like us; losers..