What's Past is Prologue

William Shakespeare wrote that in "The Tempest," his play from 1610.  Punk rock's most visible mouthpiece, Johnny Rotten wrote the refrain "No future" in the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" and reiterated in the press what The Clash proclaimed,  "No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones in 1977."

Punk got one thing right - no more Elvis in 1977, but could Johnny Rotten have predicted no Sex Pistols in 1978 or that during that year the Rolling Stones would have a hit record incorporating punk rock strains?  1978 is the intersection where the past exploded into the future and to this day, leaves a cultural mark.

Our friends at the East Nashvillian know that too; they kick off 2014 not only with a nice piece on us, ( and we are thrilled!) but they share our rallying cry:  "the past informs our present and our future."