The brainchild of South Carolina punk legend Chuck Walker, Bedlam Hour was South Carolina's (SC) primary proponent of the straight edge movement. The most prolific of the SC punk bands, Bedlam Hour released several full-length records on vinyl, including the pop-punk masterpiece "Rock the Cradle". Later, bands such as Green Day and blink 182 would score massive hits with a sound Bedlam Hour embraced in the mid-1980s. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Palmetto State Other U.S. States Capital Columbia Largest city Columbia Governor Mark Sanford (R) Senators Lindsey Graham (R) Jim DeMint (R) Official languages English Area 82,965 km² (40th)  - Land 78,051 km²  - Water 4,915 km² (6%) Population (2000)  - Population 4,012... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Palmetto State Other U.S. States Capital Columbia Largest city Columbia Governor Mark Sanford (R) Senators Lindsey Graham (R) Jim DeMint (R) Official languages English Area 82,965 km² (40th)  - Land 78,051 km²  - Water 4,915 km² (6%) Population (2000)  - Population 4,012... For the drawing or cutting tool, see Straightedge. ... Pop punk is a term applied to a style of punk rock music that became commercially successful during the late 1990s with the band Blink-182, based on earlier groundwork laid by groups such as Green Day. ... Jump to: navigation, search Green Day is a California based Punk Rock/Pop-Punk band , consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals, born Michael Ryan Pritchard), and Tré Cool (drummer, backing vocals, born Frank Edwin Wright III, in Frankfurt, Germany). ... Jump to: navigation, search Blink-182 (formerly known as blink) is a Southern-Californian rock band that was formed in 1992 by Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Scott Raynor in Poway, California. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

Bedlam Hour's music was punctuated by catchy hooks and deft guitar work, but the true heart of the band's creativity lay in Walker's lyrics. 10 years before "emo," Walker penned sensitive, introspective and poetic lyrics that struck a chord with kids in the punk, metal and straight edge scenes. Jump to: navigation, search The acoustic archtop guitar used in Jazz features steel strings The guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article deals with the genre of music. ...

Bedlam Hour was known all over the southeast United States for its wild live shows in which the band would feed the audience freshly-made snacks (made on stage with a small waffle iron). The band's core lineup in the late 1980s was made up of Walker (guitar, vocals), Scott Frey (drums) and Adam Kolesar (bass), who often appeared on stage clad only in an adult-size diaper. Jump to: navigation, search R. Scott Frey is a sociologist at the University of Tennessee. ...

One of the most long-lived of the SC punk bands, Bedlam Hour continued to release material through the late 1990's with several different lineups fronted by Walker, though many fans still point to "Rock the Cradle" as the band's definitive work. Jump to: navigation, search 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Now, the infamous Chuck Walker works as a Creative Writing teacher at his local high school. His influential and groundbreaking music is often played in the classroom to give his students a source of inspiration. Now that he has "found Jesus," he is working with a band called the Mill Village Apostles, who only play punk renditions of traditional hymns and other religious works. His new self-titled CD can be found in Hot Topics throughout the southeast.