"sonicgabe" (gabeloewenberg)
04/01/2016 at 08:28 • Filed to: d boon, minutemen
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"sonicgabe" (gabeloewenberg)
04/01/2016 at 08:28 • Filed to: d boon, minutemen | 0
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D. Boon would have been 58 today. He spent his best years driving around the country in a van playing music. If that isn’t Oppo, I don’t know what is. Sadly, it was the van that killed him; specifically a Dodge van with an axle known to break. I never had the opportunity to meet D as I was only 10 years old when he died in 1985. I only know him through his music and from stories I’ve been told from people who knew him well. He left this world far to early.
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Through all the political turmoil that’s happened since his death, I feel that now would have been the time when he would have been needed the most. Regardless of which Democratic candidate he may have supported, his voice railing against the racist, misogynist, homophobic, nationalist vitriol that is being pushed by the Republicans would have been front and center. He may be gone, but his ideals and spirt live on.
Celebrate his life today. Celebrate it every day. Fight injustice. Fight like D would have fought. Play his music loud. Sing his songs even louder. Write your own songs. Sing them loudest.
D. Boon is still alive in all of us. “Punk is whatever we made it to be.” still applies. Be one. Make a difference in whatever way you can, no matter how small. Be the best human you can be.
Happy birthday, D. Thank for everything.