Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Greatest Artists of Punk Rock
The New York Dolls were a glam group and pre-punk. The roots of punk may go back to Iggy and the Stooges, but real punk started with the Ramones in 1974, according to some music historians. Classic punk is based on the DIY garage band - T-shirted, motorcycle jacketed, and blue jeans wearers like rockabillies and British rockers of the 1960s. Female punk musicians displayed styles ranging from Siouxsie Sioux's bondage gear to Patti Smith's straight-from-the-gutter androgyny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock The Seeds presaged the style of bands that would become known as the archetypal figures of proto-punk: The Seeds were an American rock band. The group, whose repertoire spread between garage rock and acid rock, are considered one of the pioneers of punk rock. The Seed's Pushin Too Hard is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard http://youtu.be/IReb27tFqMg [image: Inline image 1] Notes: I had an encounter with Sky Saxon one day when he tried to get into our house when we were living in Venice Beach back in 1970. After I locked him out for being rowdy he got real angry and threatened to cut off my head for locking him out. Go figure. In 1973, Saxon became a member of the Source which was a religious cult founded by a Hollywood restaurant owner named Jim Baker,who gave Saxon the new spiritual name Arlick. I was planning on seeing Saxon's performance in 2009 but he passed away suddenly in an Austin hospital due to an infection at ge 71. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seeds On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:35 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Begin at the beginning. The New York Dolls were punk's parents. Looking for a kiss is from 1973 but has that recognisable sound and sensibility. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvmvMFXWzc8
[FairfieldLife] RE: Greatest Artists of Punk Rock
The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either - Joey Ramone That view - ie, mainstream politicians of both the left and the right are *not* the solution to our problems - has always appealed to me. Punk was more than just music, of course. Its essential attitude was that we should just be ourselves - warts and all - and ignore the ideals that society expects us to conform to. So even plain or downright ugly people could adopt a style of clothing that said: This is what I am - accept me come what may. Sometimes the results were boringly self-indulgent or downright offensive; but sometimes they gave a certain dignity to those at the bottom of the social scale that you had to respect. Derek Jarman - being a true artist - captured the essence of punk in his film Jubilee. Here's a song from the film that is both patriotic and deeply subversive . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRg5pLD9EI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRg5pLD9EI
[FairfieldLife] Re: Greatest Artists of Punk Rock
The Ramones [image: Inline image 1] I Wanna Be Sedated - 1978 http://youtu.be/lQeo3OfuEDM Live in Germany http://youtu.be/-WgdD3F73CY Live at CBGB - 1977 http://youtu.be/hPp0-3Vo2uM It wasn't until they made a brief tour of England that they began to see the fruits of their labor; a performance at the Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976 (second-billed to the Flamin' Groovies), organized by Linda Stein, was a resounding success.[39] Their Roundhouse appearance and a club date the following night—where the band met members of the Sex Pistols and The Clash—helped galvanize the burgeoning UK punk rock scene. They were all wearing these black leather jackets. And they counted off this song...and it was just this wall of noise They looked so striking. These guys were not hippies. This was something completely new. - Legs McNeil, cofoundeder of Punk magazine The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first punk rock group. Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time[8] and VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, trailing only The Beatles. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: The Sex Pistols [image: Inline image 1] God Save the Queen (Studio) http://youtu.be/8z2M_hpoPwk Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols http://youtu.be/kbaF8F-DasM We saw this band in 1978 when they performed in San Antonio. During the concert Sid Vicious called the crowd a bunch of faggots, before striking an audience member across the head with his bass guitar. Nice! For this the audience pelted the band with beer cans and beer bottles and called Sid a bloody limey and yelled go home. Go figure. [image: Inline image 2] The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their original career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music. Their 1977 single God Save the Queen, attacking social conformity and deference to the Crown, precipitated the last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the Sex Pistols No. 58 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols 'Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk' by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain Grove Press, 2013
[FairfieldLife] RE: Greatest Artists of Punk Rock
Begin at the beginning. The New York Dolls were punk's parents. Looking for a kiss is from 1973 but has that recognisable sound and sensibility. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvmvMFXWzc8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvmvMFXWzc8
