I love punk documentaries. Community comes together to build inclusive spaces. Community rebounds after losing spaces. Community fights off skinheads with bats and pipes to keep spaces safe. Community learns how to DIY together.

I mean, we’re 13 to 16 years old, with this music that we made, in our basements or garages, without any parents, without any teachers. That was a profound thing that happened to us, at a young age, cause it made us realize that anything was possible, if you just do it yourself.

Tim Armstrong, Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk – YouTube

Kids stopped waiting for the show they wanted to see, and did it themselves.

Music and art was something they could do, right now.

And it gave the freaks in each town a reason to stick together.

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk – YouTube

At Gilman Street
It's a safe retreat
For a zillion punk rock bands

At Gilman Street
It's democracy
It's just one big family
It's a bunch of geeks
It's a load of freaks
It's a club, it's a place, it's a thing
It's Gilman Street
Gilman Street

I mean, being in a band isn’t just about playing punk or playing what you want. It’s actually about getting together with a group of people and learning how to do something together.

And it didn’t have to turn out good. A lot of times it turns out ugly, but, you know, it still has a good feeling.

Sure, it’s a better feeling when you make something ugly with a bunch of people, than it is when you make something ugly by yourself.

Dave Mello, Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk – YouTube

Punk wasn’t about playing hard music, it was about playing honest music.

Paul Curran, Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk – YouTube

Punk’s for everybody. No matter what age you are.

Punk’s, you know, it’s part and parcel of… no racism, no sexism, no homophobia at the club. It’s all ages. It’s because… it belongs to everybody.

Paul Curran, Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk – YouTube

It’s not magical. It’s all put together, week by week. It’s held together, show by show. And you gotta have more than just one group participating.

Pat, Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk – YouTube

If there was ever a time
To stand together
If there was ever a time
Its tonight
If there was ever a time
To hold your brothers and your sisters
Then the time is right

It’s about weird, lost people coming to some place and finding themselves.

Bille Joe Armstrong, Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk – YouTube

The things that happen in the East Bay, they weren’t just dumb luck, or faith, or whatever. They were specific to the time, and the place, and the people who put in the effort.

There’s no reason why the same thing can’t happen again. It’s probably happening already. in some town you’ve never heard of, where kids feel bored and dissatisfied.

It could be happening anywhere. It should be happening everywhere.

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk – YouTube

There's a trouble in the air, a rumble in the streets
A "going out of business" sale and a race to bankruptcy
It's not one to ninety-nine, it's ninety-nine to one
A common cause and a call to arms for the health of our daughters and our sons

It's ninety-nine revolutions tonight
Ninety-nine revolutions tonight
Ninety-nine revolutions tonight
Ninety-nine revolutions tonight

There's a rat in the company, a bailout on easy street
How the fuck did the working stiff become so obsolete?
Hit the lights and bang the drum and let your flag unfold
'Cause history will prove itself in the halls of justice and lost souls

It's ninety-nine revolutions tonight
Ninety-nine revolutions tonight
Ninety-nine revolutions tonight
Ninety-nine revolutions tonight