HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) \u2013 A few weeks ago, WHNT 19 told you about the new exhibit at the Huntsville Museum of Art, \u201cDays of Punk.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a collection of photographer Michael Grecco\u2019s work from the punk rock movement. The photos of bands and musicians range from The Cramps to Adam Ant to Billy Idol to The Clash.<\/p>\n
Punk was a snarling, thundering explosion of bands and musicians angry at the status quo, and Grecco\u2019s work captured it.<\/p>\n
He had a front-row seat for one of the most significant musical currents of the 20th century, a movement that still influences bands today.<\/p>\n
\t \u201cI wasn\u2019t drawn to the punk scene as a photographer originally. I was drawn to the punk scene because the music was so different,\u201d Grecco said. \u201cI think it was \u201977 I wandered into the Ratskeller. It was our equivalent to CBGB\u2019s in New York\u2014disgusting, vomit on the rugs, stale smell\u2014but the music was different.\u201d<\/p>\n An acquired taste for some, a clarion call for truth to others, Grecco knew this was \u201ca thing\u201d he had to hear and explore.<\/p>\n \u201cI was a jazz listener in New York, a snobby listener, and I hated what was on the radio. So going down to hear that first show at The Rat in Boston just blew my mind,\u201d Grecco said.<\/p>\n Grecco\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 touches a lot of bases. He was working with the Associated Press when he discovered this new brand of music.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcf2Download the WHNT News 19 App<\/a> to stay updated on the go. \u201cMe documenting this happened organically. Yes, it was very intentional. Then I started gaining more access by shooting for Boston Rock magazine and WBCN, which was the K-Rock station in Boston. I had them as a client,\u201d Grecco said. \u201cSo during the day I was a stringer for the Associated Press covering straight news, and at night I started shooting jobs. That got me more access and more known, and I became friends with the DJs and the musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n What does Grecco want people to take with them when they leave the \u201cDays of Punk\u201d exhibit?<\/p>\n \u201cThe takeaways I would want people to leave the exhibition with\u2026these aren\u2019t music pictures. These aren\u2019t just a document. These are from a special time in musical history,\u201d Grecco said. \u201cIt captures that moment where punk intentionally broke AM radio and, over time, played on college radio stations, having a huge fan base. It infiltrated commercial AM radio and broke the system.\u201d<\/p>\n Grecco\u2019s exhibit, \u201cDays of Punk,\u201d will be at the Huntsville Museum of Art until Feb. 1. The museum is on Church Street in downtown Huntsville.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) \u2013 A few weeks ago, WHNT 19 told you about the new exhibit at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,202712,460,134,202717,202713,202714,202718,202716,202715],"class_list":{"0":"post-375907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-days-of-punk-exhibit","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-huntsville-art-events","17":"tag-huntsville-museum-of-art","18":"tag-michael-grecco-photography","19":"tag-punk-music-exhibit","20":"tag-punk-rock-history","21":"tag-punk-rock-photos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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