And Now We've Got To Do It All Over Again,...

"Most interesting fact about punk that you weren’t expecting?

I had no idea how hostile they were to the hippies. You look at the Ramones and they all had this long hair and what I didn’t realize is how in England, New York and Los Angeles, how they were all breaking with the hippies. Johnny Rotten hated the hippies. Both the Ramones and the Sex Pistols saw the hippies as an unfortunate detour from the heart of rock 'n' roll. They said: We are going to reject peace, love and understanding."

-- Nick Rombes, author of The Encyclopedia of Punk, kind of explaining why so few turned out to be NewAgers, in The Los Angeles Times.