Mirrors: Before there was Punk, there was Cleveland
In attempts to properly figure out when and where punk started a laundry list of injustices are done. There’s no supreme answer as to where this music came from – probably somewhere between 1965 and 1977, though, right? That’s a pretty long span of time for a genre to be founded. So, sticking to later dates makes sense even as it occasionally disqualifies a number of Cleveland based rock acts from inclusion in this history.