Actually, it really depends on what particular era and region of punk music
you are talking about.
Punk(60's garage rock) does not have a reggae or ska influence at all. You
look at anything on Nuggets, or the Stooges, Rationals and MC5 records, and
blues and 50's rock in stamped all over those records. The Ramones, and New
York Dolls, annd Velvet Underground dont skank. Most of the New York records
do not reference reggae. Nothing that came out of Ohio(Pere Ubu, Rocket From
Tombs, Electric Eels, early Devo) has that stamp on it. The West Coast does
not have it either(Germs, Black Flag, early X, Fear) Real American punk in
the 70's does not have a strong reggae influence. Of course nobody gives a
shit about American punk because Epic Records couldnt sell it with the mug
of a turncoat pub rocker like Joe "101'ers" Strummer.
Of course English Punk has a Reggae influence(particularly in London.) It is
just a result of having such a large West Indian population. I mean working
class affection for Blue Beat/Ska goes back to the Hard Mod/Skinhead days of
the mid to late 1960. I am not going to go into a rant about the old Blue
Beat tours, but I will tell you that Don Letts did not introduce reggae to
the UK(despite what PBS might tell you.) Ska in the late 60's was about as
common in the UK in the 60's as Master P was in Detroit in the late 90's.
Not everybody was tuned into peace and love, if you were a docker's son you
listened to Tamala and Ska.
mt
From: "M. Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "313 List" <313@hyperreal.org>
Subject: Re: [313] Is Prince the root of all Techno?
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:07:39 -0400
Thanks, that was somewhat informative, but saying punk was heavily
influenced by Dub and Reggae because The Clash wrote some jams and they
were
influenced by it, does not mean the entire genre was. Unless of course you
are saying The Clash were the progenitors of punk, but that's a whole other
ball of wax.
Cheers
todd
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From: "miss lauryn g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "M. Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [313] Is Prince the root of all Techno?
> >
> > Do you have any evidence of this? Can you support this claim? Are you
Iggy
> > Pop? The only influence Dub and Reggae may have had on punk is the
message
> > they tried to get across. Ska was directly influenced by the rhythms
and
> > sounds of Dub and Reggae as is apparent in the music, however Ska-punk
cross
> > pollination really didn't happen until about '88 when Operation Ivy
hit
the
> > scene. Unless you consider The Specials and The English Beat 'punk',
I'd
> > really like to know where you got this idea.
> >
>
> http://www.appleonline.net/fantompowa/baines_reggae.htm
>
> that pretty much will sum it up for you right there. :)
>
> he is correct. punk was heavily influenced by reggae and dub.
>
> -l
>
>
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