RKL was influential on the punk rock scene. Regarding RKL’s impact on punk music, Fat Mike had this to say: “When we first started, we wanted to sound like RKL.” “Without RKL, there wouldn’t be a NOFX. Well, there might be a totally shitty NOFX… RKL was the band that we would always be in the shadow of. When they broke up, we kinda took their spot.” Erik Sandin described them as “[NOFX’s] musical heroes, we worked hard to imitate their sound”. Lagwagon’s Joey Cape has said “In many ways, I don’t think there would be a NOFX or a Lagwagon or many bands that sound like us if there hadn’t been an RKL. They had this style of music that would just rip the whole time.” Dwarves vocalist Blag Dahlia said, “RKL carved out a niche in the 1980s as a band that could actually play in a sea of those who could not.”, and called them the “standard bearers of ‘Prog-Punk’”. Many people credit Bomer Manzullo as the first person to play the standard, or modern, punk beat.^[31] RKL has been credited with creating the prototype that brought success to punk rock bands that followed in the early 1990s, including The Offspring and NOFX and has been described as “your favorite band’s favorite band, and in a just world, they would’ve been way bigger. Via Wikipedia

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