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Timelines wind up obscuring whatever actually happened. And figuring out when punk started isn’t gonna ever be a forgone conclusion. There’s been endless discussion about who used the word psychedelic to describe a music first with no definitive conclusion reached. Who was the first to use punk to describe music has also been debated. Whatever the answer is, it was probably in the ‘60s and has nothing to do with the bevy of New York bands that cropped up in the early ‘70s.