>>>Besides, punk is British,
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>>Screw that, those guys were copying the Ramones, The Stooges...
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>Punk was created in the U.S., but if it weren't for the Sex Pistols from England, it would have died on the vine.

I'm with you there. Punk came from the UK. It inspired a flourishing movement in NYC (CBGB, Ramones, Dictators, etc.) but we were the followers, not the innovators.