>It became a habit for me and a couple of friends to take a couple of
yearly expeditions to London all through the eightees. To drink mostly and
to explore the clubs and record stores. As we dived into the nightclubs, all
>charachterized by no sign outside, we got the strong feeling thath there
was a diversions between the Damned/Ramones fans and those who liked the
"newer" stuff. They all sat on diffrent tables.
>
>What they all said, at no matter what time, was nothing is happening here
now. That seemed to be the refrain.
>
>I felt more than mildly schizofrenic in all this. Liking them all, the
Damned,Jam, Pistols and the Clash.
>Then there was Style Council (the beer always cost more in the clubs that
played them) and Prefab Sprout.
>I went bananaz about them when "Steve Mcqueen" came out, and oh Blue
Nile,. and I admit that I was a big the Smiths fan from the beginning. I
believe it was the same year that Steve Mcqueen came out that Darden Smith
gave out his first, Native Soils on RediMix, and the same year I spent a
week with Timbuk 3 in London, telling me about Townes. Okay so it must have
been in the mid eightees that I converted. Don't want to be any more
specific, those days were all to hazy.
Oh man! Those were all great acts you listed Geir... I'm with you, I liked
'em all! You got to see all those acts play?! Man, you picked the right
era to hit those clubs indeed! That was a really exciting time... Those
expeditions sounded like they were mighty fun...I really enjoyed that time
period myself as I spent a few Keith Richards hours touring the states and
had the good fortune of playing with folks like Social Distortion, The
Dickies, The Vandals, Soungarden, Henry Rollins, Urge Overkill, Suicidal
Tendencies... I still thank my lucky stars to have lived out a bit of my
adolescent rock n' roll dream. <g> Man, those were crazy assed shows!
Wouldn't trade them days fer nothing...
>
morgan "growing grey, experiencing the "thickening", and waxing nostalgic"
