There was another generation that goes nameless that was between the boomers & genX. Richard Hell called it the Blank Generation. You could call them the Reagan Youth, or the Disco Youth if you want. Folks that graduated from H.S. from about 74 to 80 have nothing to do w/ hippie-dom. As was noted, that is the generation that created punk. Musically, that generation was stadium rock, disco, & punk. Sociologically, it was about self-reliance & it had (and continues to have) a distaste for reliance-on-the-state (now called the "nanny state", a term that I have but one that resonates with the Blank Generation). It also was at the center of the big religious revival that took place in the late 70's.

Punk was dead, literally dead, by the time the GenXers came around. There were like 2 good punk bands then (big black, & the big boys). The rest were past their prime(after the last cataclysm of '81).