The Wild Story of Hasil Adkins, America's First Punk Rocker 

Hasil was my rockin' idol back in early 90's, loved so much his music that in 93' I flew from Europe to find him, as a record mentioned he was still living in Madison WA, I managed to find him and stayed at his shack for almost a week! He drove me around to many of his exes as I was the living proof he was famous in Europe!!

I miss Hasil, tragic and pointless loss when he was murdered. I went to his place once when he was scheduled to play a friend’s club in Boone and didn’t show up. The whole thing seemed surreal as he completely ignored us and just sat watching tv and chain smoking cigarettes. Needless to say that the opening act had to play the whole show.😅

Hasil was a great friend and an inspiration. I miss him.

Grew up right across the road from his house in bull creek, crazy dude

I toured as a roadie for Hank III in Y2K. Hank was a huge fan and had HA bootleg videos he turned me on to. I felt like I knew a secret.

I’m guessing he’s the reason the Misfits song “Skulls” exists

Dude was legit I remember learning about him in the 90s interesting wild man

My first experience with Hasil Adkins was in a little independent horror film called "Die You Zombie Bastards". I immediately looked up all his music and fell in love with his sound and insanity

Hasil Adkins, Johnny Paycheck and the legendary stardust cowboy dreamteam would've been astronomical!

Hasil was a one of a kind

When not giving a F$#k about what people think and having confidence in yourself looks like. You just do you. The rest will take care of itself ❤

You have been kicking ass and taking names, Thank you for putting out some of the best Punk documentaries online!

So THATS where "She said" came from...Thanks.👍

Proto Unknown Hinson

How come we never heard of him ? Some of stuff aint too bad

Hasil laughing on guitar sounds like Flipper

very nice. thank you for this. pretty cool seeing joe coleman in this! guess im subcribing been watching the stuff you put out for a sec. always good.

Great job on this video! I’m a huge Hasil fan and own one of his old guitars and other memorabilia. Our dog is named Hasil, too. Haha. Sadly I never saw him play live. Terrific mini documentary!

Cool video. Hasil is kinda similar to Joe Buck Yourself,but leans further into the country sound. Trevor likes to tear up Sandy Shores in his old truck while Hasil is blasting on the box.

I agree, America’s first punk rocker. I love him.

Props 🎉to Yugo car for using his song. Sold like 10 yugo cars 🚗 in the United States. 😂😅

The Moonlight Cruisers do a great version of "Chicken Walk."😎👍✨

Somehow never heard of this guy.. watching this has made me an instant fan. Definitely know what I’m going to be listening to for the next few days 😂❤

Is there anything that hasn’t been done a few times before?

The Wild West Virginian. Pretty sure Virginia is in Dixie

HASIL is a god. Theres an interesting phenomena occurring in Los Angeles of a kind of 70's country revival, not as wild and unruly as Hasil or Ledegendary Stardust Cowboy or most country acts you feature on your amazing show, in the late 90's and early 2000's there was a band that embodied the outlaw energy of past country stars. The last of its kind. Heartbroken and hellbent, poetic and piss on your face. THE ABIGAILS.!!!!!!!!! PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON THEM. WE'RE ALL ASKING WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!!

Gewd $hït mang , unsurprisingly though you failed to mention Rob Rodriguez using no mo hot dogs in his film Roadracers . And as Groucho said of Harpo : "one like that is worth three ordinary ones" .

Who knew that rockabilly, and psychobilly were both born at the same time. Eat yer heart out Cramps.

He’s the caption beefheart of country

I discovered Hasil in the early 90's. He influenced many punk and psycho-billy bands like Buck Nacked and the bare bottom boys from San Fran.

I’m from Boone County but I only learned about Hasil when he was inducted into the WV music hall of fame. He was definitely a character.

FANTASTIC VIDEO!

I was going to say that I heard the hank Williams but didn't hear the Johnny Cash, then it hit me.

This is what the world needs now, pure absurdist excellence!! I'm leaving reality proper for the more promising weirder frontier, no looking back!

Why does boone county produce such talent? Is because nothing is there?

The Haze.

my hero

You might check out "Who Do You Love?" the Bo Diddley song.

This aint no Rock N Roll show

I LOVE HASIL ADKINS! Very good work on that video.

Hasil, the ultimate rockabilly punk granddaddy hillbilly chicken walker!

Wonder if he inspired flipper?

I saw a documentar y on Hasil Adkins neighbors. Hank Williams the 3rd wrote a song about them. The Whites

I dunno, I've always considered Robert Johnson the original punk. Wandering around the south on foot, sleeping in doorways, getting beat up by the cops steady, playing dives for booze and food. Then theres the dark gothic rumors he encouraged, crazy abrasive stuff for the 1930's. It took music so many decades to surpass his blueprint, and I think he was on to concepts that didnt become common untill the 90's.

Have you checked out Angry Johnny and the Killbillies?

I have been fascinated with eccentrics, outlaws and rock and roll my whole life and I don't know how I never heard of these characters and bands. You have earned my subscription, thank you sir.

Fuck Yeah!

The first punk rocker hmmmm well I guess ...but I think kick out the jams mother fuck$& and the stooges were more the influence of the start of punk...MC5 man the were so ahead of there time ....I hear more the first rockabilly punk sound definitely a hank 3 sound and my man Reverend Horton Heat with this guy ...oh let's not forget the crazy mad man GG

Cramps!

Woody Guthrie wrote "This machine kills Fascists" on his guitar. He didn't give a fuck. He was definitely punk back during the Great Depression.

KILLER VID ABOUT AN ASSKICKER! Cheers, and Happy Fathers Day, to everyone everywhere.

He reminds me of me when I was on heroin. That’s how I acted