This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society’s ultimate authorities — dads.
As a new dad and as someone whose soundtrack to their adolescence consisted of Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Shower with Goats, etc., this is a documentary — The Other F Word — I’d like to see. Sure, I’m 30-years-old now. I don’t look wild, dress wild, act wild, or bang away on my bass guitar loud in an attempt to master the “Maxwell Murder” bass solo from Rancid’s third album anymore, but I but I am a dad and gosh darn it, I’m still a punk rocker at heart and in head†. Safety pins, I’ve learned, actually serve a purpose now.
Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion) on punk rock:
“Maybe punk rock wasn’t supposed to grow up… but it did.”
Flea (RHCP) on parenthood:
“It’s funny how you always hear people saying that classic parent attitude of, ‘I brought you into this word, I gave you life!’ You know, it’s just, I think, completely the opposite. My kids gave me life. They gave me a reason.”
Andrew Barker of Variety describes The Other F Word as,
“A raucous, eye-opening, sad and unexpectedly wise look at veteran punk rockers [Brett Gurewitz, Ron Reyes, Lars Frederiksen] as they adapt to the challenges of fatherhood.”
Starring:
- Tony Adolescent
- Art Alexakis
- Rob Chaos
- Joe Escalante
- Josh Freese
- Fat Mike
- Flea
- Lars Frederiksen
- Matt Freeman
- Jack Grisham
- Brett Gurewitz
- Tony Hawk
- Greg Hetson
- Mark Hoppus
- Jim Lindberg
- Mike McDermott
- Tim McIlrath
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- Duane Peters
- Joe Sib
- Ron Reyes
- Rick Thorne
With music by The Adolescents, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Bouncing Souls, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Fear, Rancid, US Bombs, and more.
