Punk Rock

 

Yea, the Buzzcocks were pretty good in their day.

Yes, I know the solo is supposed to consist of only 2 notes, but he failed at playing those 2 notes without any mistake.

 

  Sounds like it!

I do like the proto-punk of the Stooges though. 

 

'Toy Dolls' Oh my sainted aunt!

 

 

 

Unlike Hannah Montana, who is a Disney creation designed to make money and has nothing to do with the talent and creativity of the girl herself ... (who now has to fight to get her own identity!) ... things like The Sex Pistols are a totally different ball game ...

 

First of all ... they are not about the music ... they are about the scene and some people's reaction to it.

 

Rock music had grown away from the AM hit stations and the BBC had opened up the gates and learned its lessons in the late 60's when they could have made major money on all those bands, but their control of the masses and what it listened to ... changed dramatically.

 

In the 60's what helped a lot of music and other things get heard in Europe was done via a lot of Pirate radio ... and the Kinks, Beatles and Rolling Stones and many others owe a lot to those folks ... and eventually they broke through ... but it was still controlled ... harshly ... and there are many stories about Elvis and the Coronel if you don't believe me.

 

The 70's with FM radio in America helped break the rest ... however it was only to last a couple of years before it became just another AM station with hipper music ... well it didn't exactly have a top ten, but it had the Blue Dots and Red Dots and Green Dots ... aa different form of top ten ... but at least you played Led Zeppelin and Who and Rolling Stones and Beatle/s every hour!

 

By the time the Sex Pistols came up, it was a serious rejection process and I almost like to say that it was well orchestrated by a producer ... that knew he could break through if he could shake someone's jacket some ... and that he did! He is the first person to tell you that there might not be enough music in there ... but there is one thing in there that you can not find in some music at all ... even classical music and its history ... and it's pure, unadulterated heart ... and fully felt and jumped and letting you know ... I'm here ... I'm  a person ... and I deserve attention ... just like anyone else ... and not a single person could ever sit here and honestly say ... he wasn't right.

 

The NY Dolls and some of the NY punk scene, was not the same ... for my ears, even Iggy and the Stooges did not have much to what they were doing other than the presentation of their material ... by comparison the lyrics in most of the NY Dolls stuff was poor and not much to talk to mom about, or even over a drink or even over a glass of wine ... gotta be kidding me! And it was easy to let that scene pass by ...

 

I always thought that the London scene was a bit different ... I think they knew that there were no artistic anything to worry about and to hope for and aspire to ... and they did what is left ... the pure and raw emotion ... for all intents and purposes Iggy had it in his performance, but I tend to suggest that his band had no idea ... they just thought they had a heck of leading man in the band!

 

It's a progression in music ... a very valid expression that led to what today we call metal in a lot of ways ... but sadly, in general scenes that are reactionary tend to implode ... and sometimes blow up their own scene into oblivion ... I personally think that sometimes you have to scream to get your parent's or girlfriend's (or boyfriend's) attention ... but a lot of us think that's not necessary ... but more often than not it is.

 

The equivalent in England to this in theater was in the 50's with the group known as the "angry young men" ... and it tells you how much more respect people have for theater (then) that they did not have for music ... most of these people never got into film until at least 10 years later, but the punk scene in London, just about killed itself ... senselessly .... but then, I don't think that the people around them were honorable enough to help them either!

 

Keith Levene (from the original Clash line-up, later of Public Image Limited) was a fan of Steve Howe and even worked as a roadie for Yes.