The punk rock culture of the seventies in New York and the one that revolved around the Sex Pistols in London were only of peripheral interest to Kurt. He and Krist were galvanized in high school by a subsequent iteration of punk and other indie rock that flowered in America in the 1980s. Although that movement was commercially limited, it took on the role of a secular religion to its fans, the center of which was a group of artists that the mainstream music business largely ignored.
