European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes june Punk and heavy Metal passing or peril to society by Ellis Conklin United press International they see themselves As playing and living on the Edge with a defiant fury the Punk Rock ers and the More aggressive heavy Metal stoners who glory in their tight Black leather boots and Black gloves often speckled with studs and Sharp filed they dance with a frenzy and worship the angry music and band members of such groups As suicidal septic nazi sex gang children and social drug and alcohol sexual for a satanic rituals and outrageous behaviour and rebellion against All forms of societal authority Are part of the for the so is self mutilation such As Burn ing Happy faces on their arms with cigarette lighters and cutting crude slogans into their thighs and they represent the the borderline a Genera Tion far removed from that of Bob Dylan and Paul and and parents anyway Are the same who smoked marijuana As they listened to the beatles in the or gyrated in the aisles to Elvis Presley in the or pulled their hair out and Frankie Frankie in the there was a social commitment in the says los Angeles child psychologist Judith you peace and we we rent talking about not this violence and Are Punk and heavy Metal passing fads for some just another generation showing its Youthful antipathy for the establishment or a peril to society that must be As some members of the psychiatric Community Are now advocating Rex assistant professor of Medicine at explains i would make the argument that in any Given time in theres always been a percent age of Young people who Are with psychological disorders and into a lot of drug there is the notion that this Small percentage of True believers in Punk and heavy Metal Are dangerously out of acting put their Faith in the nihilistic message of the music to the Point where they end up in juvenile courts and mental maybe even and that they should be debunked and Demet aled before its too that is the message of More than 150 teach probation psychiatrists and police who turned out for an Allday conference in Pasadena to discuss the potentially evil effects of the Punk and heavy Metal Punk and heavy Metal paraphernalia were passed stories were told like the one about the 15 year old heavy me Taler who smashed All the furniture in his parents House and beat his Mother about the a videotape called spikes and studs showed Young women tearing away their clothes and offering their bodies to titled sound and the conference was one of the first to be held on the Pun Metal phenom it was sponsored by the Back in control training Center in started up recently by two former Orange county probation officers to teach parents what to look for and How to get Tough with their for Center directors Greg Bodenhamer and Darlyne Punk and heavy Metal particularly Metal Are Public enemy they maintain there is a direct link Between the aggressive music and and teenage homicide and self inflicted these kids have been totally brainwashed by this Treyve got to be Bodenhamer he and Pettinicchio Point to some Well publicized cases Over the past year last 14yearold Jennifer Newton was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stabbing and bludgeoning her Mother to death in prosecutors punks trash san Francisco Marker Street during an Antiwar up photo said Newton and her Boyfriend were absorbed with heavy Metal last two teenage san described by authorities As into the heavy Metal were accused of killing a 15yearold boy who passed out and was shackled to a heavy milk crate near his in a 14yearold boy was found by his parents bleeding in his Santa Monica bedroom after he sliced his Knuckles with a knife and scrawled a giant a for anarchy on the he not everyone shares the somewhat alarmist position that surfaced at the Pasadena i really dont think there any big los Angeles police detective Harry Andrews we arrest a few of them for dangerous weapons like attach ing spikes on their but you people thought we were too in the Beaber said its a mistake to contend that the Punk or heavy Metal music Fosters a sense of nihilism or although the mentalists will reinforce crazy Monica Delauer and Aric both from affluent Westlake West of los often make their promenade Down Hollywood a longtime hangout for the disaffected Day were peace Resnick said dressed in the Platinum blonde her clothes draped with crucifixes and Little hand grenades dangling from her punks Are labels Given us by other i just consider i am a Resnick i consider myself a peace i believe in peace and theres no satanism in what we and our friends Elmauer theres no although conference participants lumped Punk and heavy Metal there Are theres a consensus that Punk had its origins in the White Industrial ghettos of England in the late 60s and Early for the the dress code covers the the hair is Short and often dyed several and the music suggests a certain desperation and hopelessness about the the Punk Symbol is an a for Shock value is the True punker might go As far As to Auto graph himself with knife cuts across the by theres More Militancy almost a fas Cist Strain to heavy the Spike strewn uniform is and unlike Wear their hair longer and cropped on the music is sexist and strewn with satanic examples of me Taler Graffiti kill them and Natas the latter is satan spelled a word chanted at heavy Metal of is the fringe not the 15yearolds who simply like to Wear twisted sister whatever the emotions ran hot at the this whole movement is about hate hating your your said Reevah a psychological social worker at us medical Punk and heavy Metal just teaches them that the world is that its hopeless and theres nothing to live Simon recalled treating one 16yearold she claimed was obsessed by the heavy Metal scene who slugged it out one night with his parents when they ordered him to stay he went smashing the stereo and and his father had to sit on top of him in the Back seat of the car while they were Riding to the mental health she Bodenhamer said the key advice he imparts to parents is for them to take total control of their adolescent and demand that they have no association with any thing or anyone having to do with Punk or if they get i Tell them to Call the police and make a citizens Bodenhamer you have to treat them like follow them everywhere get the names and address of their Complete sur youve got to make them see that they have no Choice but to a consultant to pro Bation departments and social service claims he s worked with 400 to 500 parents and never had a failure of they just stuck with it and showed per this Tough love kind of practice runs counter to the prevailing thought in most child psychology circles Santa child psychologist Benjamin acknowledges the Boderhamer method is gaming some he the Parent does stand the risk of losing Complete control Over the a lot of its better not to patience still counts for a great