Punks and Poseurs A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground (1985)

At its core Punks and Poseurs is a narrationfree concert film but its cut with terrific interview footage that explores the changing nature of punk from insider and outsider perspectives Theres a lot of great footage with writerperformers Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry torpedoing the influx into the music scene of neophyte phonies who just didnt get it explaining title of the program After this first aired in 1985 a bunch of the new waverDurannie chicks at my high schoolwhich is to say all the girls who were trying their suburban Ohio best to look like Gehman and Berrystarted calling everyone poseurs which was pretty funny Theres also a hilarious interview with employees at a store called Poseur which sold punk fashions and accessoriespeople had to get that shit somewhere before Hot Topic forever banished punk to the mall no Also keep an eye out for the kid giving a primer on how to fashion liberty spikes with Knox gelatine