Punk history doesn't need to be 'remembered' (written down for everyone else to read by the experts) for it is present every time a punk band plays, and drawing on long tradition, recaptures that ageless, timeless frenzy that makes punk rock matter in the first place. The facts and the details, the 'how we got here' are irrelevant and could not themselves enable the band to do this. The band must simply recognizes the timeless, crucial element that makes their predecessors music matter and learn from them that it cannot be caught the same way twice. All those punk history book and documentaries become immaterial when the band in front of you is doing it. The passion that you can see in the wild abandon of the best punk bands is an ahistorical force. It can't be explained in the terms of history and tradition - what they are doing is the tradtion of violating tradition, breaking tabboos in order to broaden the world.
That being said, I am once again pulled Craig O'Hara's "The Philosophy of Punk' off the wall and am looking forward to reading it again. I always discover something new.
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