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4 Amazing Punk Drummers
A video chat with four talented punk musicians sharing their experiences.
It’s impossible to underestimate just how much punk rock has changed people’s lives since it first burst out of ’70s New York and London.
The same is true for subsequent generations of fans who were converted by countless sub-genres like hardcore, Anarcho-punk, Riot grrrl and pop punk (to name a few)—but even more so for those who became punk musicians.
“Even before my first punk rock show, I knew I wasn’t ready for college. I wanted something different and punk became my direction. It was powerful and gave me a purpose and path at sixteen,” Lynn Perko-Truell writes in her essay “You’re Pretty Good For A Girl” from Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming. (Full disclosure: I edited the book.)
Perko-Truell started playing punk rock with an all-female band from Reno, Nevada called The Wrecks in the early ’80s. She later went on to play drums for the legendary (SF) Dicks who were part of the San Francisco hardcore scene that included bands like Dead Kennedys. She left hardcore to form Sister Double Happiness in the mid-’80s and has been a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for the…
