{"id":249349,"date":"2022-12-22T17:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=249349"},"modified":"2022-12-22T21:07:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T03:07:02","slug":"sneak-peek-tour-of-the-punk-rock-museum-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sneak-peek-tour-of-the-punk-rock-museum-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas Sneak Peek Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stepping over disconnected duct pipes, paint-stained plastic sheeting, and various construction tools, Casino.org<\/em> couldn\u2019t have been treated to a tour of the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas under any more fitting circumstances.<\/p>\n

Punk rock \u2013 arguably birthed in 1976 by the Ramones on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side, though there are several conflicting schools of thought about its origins \u2013 was the soundtrack to deconstruction. It tore down the bloated conventions of mainstream \u201970s rock, distilling the form to its bare essence: teenage noise aimed loudly at authority.<\/p>\n

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Among the pieces of the Punk Rock Museum collection trotted out for a Casino.org sneak peek tour were the Arbor bass guitar broken by Fat Mike Burkett in NoFX\u2019s \u2018Stickin\u2019 In My Eye\u2019 video, a pair of Converse worn by founding Bad Brains guitarist H.R., a dress worn by Pansy Division bassist\/cofounder Chris Freeman, and a shirt, pair of shades, and hat worn by Interrupters singer Aimee Allen. (Casino.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a former antique store located between the Las Vegas Strip and downtown, the first museum exclusively dedicated to the history of this crowd-surfing, loogie-hocking, mohawk-wearing subgenre of rock music is set to open on March 10, a two-month delay from its originally announced date.<\/p>\n

The Punk Rock Museum was founded by Mike \u201cFat Mike\u201d Burkett (NoFX), who financed it along with his buddies Pat Smear (Germs, Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion), Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.<\/p>\n

Casino.org<\/em> spoke with Burkett by Zoom after being granted a sneak peek by museum organizers.<\/p>\n

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Mike Burkett, bass player for NoFX and founder of the Punk Rock Museum. (Image: Punk Rock Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q: You pushed your opening date back two months. What unexpected obstacles did you hit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: The only obstacle has just been waiting for the right permits. We needed new water pipes and that took forever. And you can’t move forward until you have them because you have to test the water and then test all the sprinklers. But it’s coming along better than we thought. It’s just going to be so cool.<\/p>\n

Q: Why Las Vegas? There\u2019s never been a major punk band or a punk movement from there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Vegas is already a punk-rock destination. The Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival draws 18,000 a year to Downtown Vegas. And now the When We Were Young Festival draws 50,000. For the weeks around those festivals, you\u2019re going to need advance reservations for the museum because we can only fit so many people a day. We\u2019re going to stay open 24 hours during those weeks.<\/p>\n

Q: Your original idea was to open a punk rock store displaying your punk collection as an afterthought. How did that morph into this? <\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I just came out to Vegas to look at a 1,400 square-foot storefront and I’m like, I bet we could use some more space. So I went to 4,000 and now we’re at 12,000 square feet and it\u2019s still too small because there\u2019s so much stuff. And what’s really cool is that we didn’t have to buy anything. Bands just wanted to be in the museum.<\/p>\n

Q: You\u2019ve got Debbie Harry\u2019s Vultures shirt, Devo\u2019s helmets, and Fear\u2019s saxophone. And we recently got a tour of some other artifacts. What are your latest acquisitions?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: We have Joe Strummer\u2019s last bag of weed, Sid Vicious\u2019 belt, and a Sex Pistols poster from A&M that never got released because they got dropped.<\/p>\n

Q: You must have asked the Ramones for something. I\u2019ve heard their estates are notoriously stingy with their memorabilia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: We don’t really care that much. I mean, the Ramones are important, but this is a museum of five decades. We don’t cherish something because it’s from the Ramones. It’s about every punk band. Anyway, I think the most impressive thing about the museum is our jam room, where you can play my bass through my amp. You can play Lorna Doom from the Germs\u2019 bass, Fletcher Dragge from Pennywise\u2019s guitar, and Pete Koller from Sick of it All\u2019s guitar. We don\u2019t have it yet, but Billy Joe from Green Day said he\u2019s giving us a guitar, too. Because we don\u2019t look at these as priceless artifacts. It\u2019s just our friends\u2019 stuff.<\/p>\n

I mean, you\u2019ll see a couple of guitars behind glass. But those are very rare and from people who aren\u2019t around anymore. We have a \u201959 Gibson Les Paul Jr. from Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls. We\u2019ll also have a wall where you can touch and smell the leather jackets from people.<\/p>\n

Q: And you’re having actual punk rock musicians give guided tours. How did you come up with that stroke of brilliance?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Yeah, so far, we\u2019ve got Glen Matlock from the Sex Pistols doing that, Noodles from the Offspring, Don Bolles from The Germs, Louichi Mayorga from Suicidal Tendencies, Roger Miret from Agnostic Front, Angelo Moore from Fishbone, Greg Hetson from Circle Jerks, Warren Fitzgerald and Joe Escalante from The Vandals, Pete Koller from Sick Of It All, Smelly from NoFX, and Zach Blair from Rise Against.<\/p>\n

You know, punk rockers have never made a lot of money. Besides a few bands, there wasn’t a big windfall. And we charge $100 a person for these tours, with 20 people per tour, and the musicians get half the money. So that\u2019s $12,000 in four days. If they do it once a month, that\u2019s 100 grand a year. And they’re just so excited about it, because it’s not really even a tour. They’re just going to walk people around and tell their stories.<\/p>\n

And the fans are so excited about it, too. If you had a choice of paying $30 just for admission, or $100 for a tour from one of the legends of punk, which would you choose?<\/p>\n

Q: The very idea of a museum for punk rock might strike some as an oxymoron. Do you think the founders of punk would have approved? <\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I think so. You know, there\u2019s never been even a Billboard<\/em> chart or a Grammy for punk rock. You can win a bluegrass Grammy, but not a punk Grammy. Who are the biggest bands in the world? Green Day and the Foo Fighters. Every person in the Foo Fighters came from a punk band. It’s all right, though, because we wouldn\u2019t want an award. But now we have a church. It’s going to be the church for my people.<\/p>\n

Opening day for the Punk Rock Museum is March 10. Guided tours will start on April 1, with tickets available soon at thepunkrockmuseum.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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