It's so great to hear all the stories about the songs and the art. Ken was such a phenomenal human being he is very much missed. Only the good die young, right? I have been a fan ever since I was a kid and I went to a RKL show and the soundman played a tape of the show from the night before, which was SNFU playing the first time in San Francisco!

Mr. Chi Pig You have one of the best voices in punk ever recorded You sing so damn good!

RIP, Ken...just heard about your passing.

I love you Chi-Pig..gonna miss you buddy. What a great guy/person-Alien...I hope the Ship-Ride home was marvelous!.(See you on another Planet) Legend .

this band was my youth ;o)

Great stuff Mr Chi. Thanks for the insight.

so interesting so much SNFU history is in this video

I will forever ,miss Chi shovin the mike in my face up front .

Siempre vas a ser el mas grande de todos Ken!! Buen viaje y gracias por la magia!!!!

I love the If You Swear You'll Catch No Fish LP, R.I.P

I think they are so cool, chi is awesome and the band is canadian and i am as well and they were formed in my province

Double Greeting Wonton House! I saw a cockroach on the wall there in my teens. It just zipped right up as I was digging into what was (then) an exotic food experience. Early '80s, people. I was 16. There 'were' no falafels. There 'was' no sushi'. Not in Alberta, anyway. I kept eating, not knowing differently. That bug seemed to legitimize something, though. That bug was 'punk'. Fuck you: places that don't have bugs. We were both eating. Me and that bug. It was okay. At some point, I decided to bleach my jeans and rip them to shreds and mosh around in my living room to SNFU, to Husker Du, to the Dead Kennedys, and to a bunch of other albums that my friend, Shannon, smuggled like contraband into our friendship. My preferences have, since, changed about bugs on walls, but at the Double Greeting Wonton House with Tony and Shannon that one time, it was a bit of a transformation. Maybe I'm still 'punk' because of this experience - because of the knowledge that I can question things, even though I have a daughter and a belly and a disappearing bum that causes me knee pain. Some might argue this. Nonetheless, SNFU's first album changed everything for me. There was no internet at that time. It was a generation before that. There was no 'punk' section in the record store. There were no music videos let alone Much Music or MTV. There was, in fact, no source of social commentary available to me as a young person at all. In fact, for young people at that time, in that place, there was no other venue that privileged the questioning of society or our generation's place. There was lots of commentary in society, itself - Viet Nam had just happened - but not for younger people. There was only: punk. And it was kind of a secret. Not many, really, knew it was there - or were able to see what it really was. Youth now are maybe out of touch with what that means, because commentary surrounds us now. Everything is available all the time. There aren't really 'outsiders', now, because every position you can take with respect to society has been subsumed by society, commodified, made into a t-shirt or a section in a record store (or iTunes), or . There is no 'outside', now. That makes me really sad for our youth, but also deeply appreciative of my own experiences as a young person. I feel so fortunate to have come into contact with punk - with SNFU - at that time in my life, and at that time in our society. To me, they said: you are allowed to have an opinion. You are allowed to take a different position, to be different. Youth need that. We all do. It's hard to be different today, I believe, because so many identities are pre-packaged and sold to our youth. So many identities are already furnished, ready to move into as a youth, and this maybe drives those who have questions into greater and greater extremes to find out who they are - and then the identity becomes messageless, it becomes about 'extremes'. If part of finding your identity means protesting or rejecting what is pre-existing, how do you find your place relative to a society that already embraces so many incredible extremes without totally destroying yourself! This makes me sad, frankly. But perhaps youth are finding different ways to find out who they are. I don't know. Chi Pig is in his fifties. Punk is elderly. Me, too. I truly hope youth are finding a identity in something other than completely tuning out. In my day and place, punk was about becoming a citizen. Maybe music isn't the only way to do this these days. Maybe something replaces punk. I don't know. But there is something so immediate and potent in musical expression...

Looking good

Legend xx

Fuckin miss hangin with you at pub 340!

thx chi pig your a fuckin god ... insightful info about a era of punk songs with feeling...

Love you

Fuck Chi, we miss you!

💪🙏👊

Great to hear Ken talking about the music, shame about the sound though.

Only saw these guys once, but I shoot the shit w Mr. Chi @ the 340 a bit.

Television in the backgroud 20:00

Great info. Rip Chi. Too bad the sub titles don't reflect what he says.

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