Punk Rock...that's right!! [Archive]

jeffhef

10-09-2008, 03:14 PM

I know...it's probably been done. But a couple of weeks ago I saw The Offspring and I'm back in punk rock mode.

So...

I'm 48 years old. The first time I heard punk was when I bought The Ramones "Rocket To Russia". That was when I was like 16 or 17. I was really sick of everything out at the time. It all sounded the same and Kiss had gone disco so the world was coming to an end. I'd seen all the stuff on the news at the time about how "Bad" punk was but I bit when I saw the album cover. THANK YOU ARTURO VEGA!!!

I was totally shocked!! I immediately was deep in. Some of my favorites from the day...

The Ramones - Still my favorite.
The Damned
The Runaways - Everyone classified them as punk back then.
Sex Pistols
The Clash - Although...I didn't really think they were pure punk. But who was.
Richard Hell & the Voidoids
The Jam
Iggy Pop - Never forget the Cream Magazine with him bleeding all over the place.
Talking Heads - Once again...kind of transcended the punk label
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
And yes...I liked early Blondie too.
I even liked Adam and the Ants.

Then later...

Social Distortion
Green Day
The Offspring

of the newer ones...obviously Social Distortion was awesome. I really like Green Day. But to me the band that's really Punk evolved is The Offspring.

BTW...I did get to see the Ramones. The lineup I saw was Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee & Markie and I count myself lucky.

How bout it...any punk love?

jeffhef

NitroLiq

10-09-2008, 03:22 PM

Bad Brains...an all-time punk fave. Funeral Oration, Face to Face, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Rocket from the Crypt....some of the Fat Wreck Chords bands (No FX et al)....

cadduc

10-09-2008, 03:22 PM

dead kennedys

Laroosco!

10-09-2008, 03:25 PM

I like some of it. Not really a punk rock guy though.

I don't care so much for the harder stuff that is just guys screaming, I like the bands that had some kind of melody going on like Bad Religion, Social D, etc

The Misfits recordings can be pretty painful to listen to but there is no denying the songwriting. Same with the Ramones. Even though I don't like listening to the Ramones, their songs are catchy as hell and canbe fun to play as well.

GregoryL

10-09-2008, 03:36 PM

Check out Against Me for some current punk.

Good stuff.

pir8matt

10-09-2008, 03:40 PM

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cubado

10-09-2008, 04:03 PM

A few not mentioned.

Modern Lovers w/ Jonathan Richman

The Freeze !

GangGreen

GG Allin

Black Flag

Nick67

10-09-2008, 04:09 PM

Love the punk! A few more to throw in:
Minutemen
X
The Germs
Television
No Means No

III

10-09-2008, 04:14 PM

How bout it...any punk love?
Punk Rock Love indeed... my two favorite bands down South are Skeptic? and The Loose Skrews.

A-Bone

10-09-2008, 04:17 PM

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Big +1 to Greg Ginn and company.

Knuckles

10-09-2008, 04:20 PM

My roots. From hearing the Ramones in grade school and the first wave of hardcore in my teens.

Just saw Bad Religion here in Portland a couple weeks ago....damn good for a bunch of guys pushing 50. Brian Baker remains my favorite guitarist from the hardcore era. The guy has tone and can out-and-out play.

90wreck

10-09-2008, 04:36 PM

Punk Rock?????:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Here?....On TGP?

Sweet.
Saw the Ramones and a few others years ago. We are very close in age.
Those were the days.:hiP

jeffhef

10-09-2008, 04:42 PM

Punk Rock?????:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Here?....On TGP?

Sweet.
Saw the Ramones and a few others years ago. We are very close in age.
Those were the days.:hiP

Weren't they though? I even went to see Rock & Roll High School. That's where I developed my crush on PJ Soles. Yeah...it was corny. But you gotta admit...the thing with the rats and ear protectors was funny.

I want you arou ound...

jeffhef

Laroosco!

10-09-2008, 04:59 PM

Let's not forget these guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOV2V5HYgU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOV2V5HYgU

badbrain

10-09-2008, 05:42 PM

Let's not forget these guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOV2V5HYgU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOV2V5HYgU
How about the Detroit Puppets. Pete's old band, from way back in the day

mikem

10-09-2008, 06:09 PM

Social D, The Pistols, Black Flag, The Ramones, Bad Brains, Rancid, Iggy Pop (!!!!!!)

Mike

southpawmax

10-09-2008, 06:17 PM

I love my DC punk, all the Dischord bands and such. Bad Brains, Fugazi, Rites of Spring, you get the idea.
As for newer punk, try Against Me! the Street Dogs, Whole Wheat Bread and the Gaslight Anthem.
It's funny to me because I dress and act like most other kid my age, not in the typical "punk" fashion, and stereotypical "punk"kids are always surprised with the music I listen to and the fact that I usually know waaaay more about old punk than they do.

tedzepplin

10-09-2008, 06:21 PM

Link Wray, Ramones, Sex Pistols, UK 1977 bands, Flex Your Head DC compilation. LA 1980 before hardcore became jockcore.
You can find Billy Zoom here: http://gretschpages.com/forum/billy-zooms-jet-set/

III

10-09-2008, 06:28 PM

I love my DC punk
Me too... VPR and Spitfires United.

Noah

10-09-2008, 06:30 PM

Street Dogs are a great current punk band... it's cool somebody mentioned them. of course I love the Ramones...wrote a song about them-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45B7KCVaTxM

Also loved the Boys, the Adverts, Nosebleeds, Chelsea, The Professionals, too many others!

Butterfly

10-09-2008, 06:50 PM

I am with you on the op--those were my guys. being from NY I saw them all numerous times. I was a fan of the two Johnnys--Thunders and Ramone. Don't remember if you mentioned the Dead Boys. They brought the rock too.

The Golden Boy

10-09-2008, 09:17 PM

I still love the Ron Reyes fronted Black Flag- and I love that My War/Slip It In era Black Flag, but I'm not so much of a Rollins fan. I love the Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, The Germs, MDC, Life Sentence, I love that Sex Pistols swagger. I love the dissonance of Fugazi.

It's about that direct-ness, that aggressiveness.

I love that shit.

jeffhef

10-09-2008, 09:20 PM

The Pistols were beast!! Steve Jones...need I say more?

jeffhef

DøøG

10-09-2008, 10:10 PM

+1 here. R & R in one of it's purest "rawest" forms. Met my wife at a Ramones show..

Fan of a lot of that stuff from those days, used to see a good chunk of the CBGB bands at a place called the Showplace in Dover, NJ. It was another place for those bands to play. Like the Ramones, Talking Heads (3 pc, with out Jerry Harrison and before any records), the Cramps, Blondie, etc. I remember Fripp playing there with his "League of Gentlemen", his rock outfit a little later in time.

That 1st wave of punk (the very 1st, before the pistols even), was really all over the map, was around '75'. It wasn't all loud n fast, like the LA version that was a few years later. A really fun time for moi......

Frankee

10-09-2008, 10:41 PM

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Thank you.

I grew up skating in mid-late 80's SoCal. So many bands.

7 Seconds
DRI
Vandals
DK
Flipper
Million Dead Cops
Wasted Youth
Circle Jerks
Germs
TSOL
Agent Orange
Adolescents
ST

Lots of Oi punk too....Sham 69 at the top of that list. Don't forget The Buzzcocks and those goofy Dead Milkmen.

A-Bone

10-09-2008, 11:09 PM

Thank you.

I grew up skating in mid-late 80's SoCal. So many bands.

7 Seconds
DRI
Vandals
DK
Flipper
Million Dead Cops
Wasted Youth
Circle Jerks
Germs
TSOL
Agent Orange
Adolescents
ST

Lots of Oi punk too....Sham 69 at the top of that list. Don't forgety The Buzzcocks and those goofy Dead Milkmen.

I grew up in the skate punk culture in mid-80s norCal, and this is a pretty damn good list here. We also frequently listened to X and Fear, as well as San Pedro's Minutemen and a host of other punk bands and other genres.

Anyone see the documentary American Hardcore? It does a pretty darn good job of summarizing important players in various geographic regions in the hardcore scenes of the 80s. Good times...

Laroosco!

10-10-2008, 12:22 AM

How about the Detroit Puppets. Pete's old band, from way back in the day

Heresy is the band I really remember him from

freedom's door

10-10-2008, 12:29 AM

Ramones- when i was a kid, Dee Dee was dating our landlord's daughter (Vera- he married her), and used to come over all the time.

Dead Kennedys

Sex Pistols

matchless1069

10-10-2008, 01:09 AM

Hardcore punk busted my band cherry. Played in a band called Ruckus in 1985 and we opened for MIA, DRI, The Vandals to name a few. We played in the middle of the desert with a generator since there were no underage clubs at that time. Nothing like a moshpit to stir up the dust (bands would have to stop mid song and let the dirt settle so they could breathe :rotflmao)......Rise Against is a good current punk band as well as the Offspring.

Smü

10-10-2008, 01:38 AM

I never really cared for the oldschool punkrock stuff. Ramones et al. were, I admit, pretty lame to me.

I liked Green Day when they hit it big, I was 13 or 14 at the time, they had some melody and I could play along, as I had just started with guitar.

Some more I liked and still like are Goldfinger ("Hangups" & "Stomping Ground" era), Rancid, No Use For A Name, No Fun At All, Bad Religion and the mighty NOFX. Check our "Me First and the Gimme Gimmies", kinda of like an All Star Punk Rock Band. Like "The Highwayman" of Punk Rock.

Oh, and I recommend some Ska-Punk: Mad Caddies, Reel Big Fish and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

A video of the latter, great song: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z-So_d-2eVI

ToneGrail

10-10-2008, 08:23 AM

I'm 48 years old. The first time I heard punk was when I bought The Ramones "Rocket To Russia".

This has got to be the best guitar sound in the world. I have no idea how Johnny coaxed it out of that single coil DiMarzio FS-1. I had a friend who had he exact same setup (Marshall 4 input plexi, Johnny Ramone Signature Mosrite), and couldn't get anywhere near the amount of roar out of it without using a pedal or some sort. He also had the thing cranked to high heaven too, just like Johnny did.:dunno

percepeid

10-10-2008, 09:54 AM

ahh... some of the best bands that fall into this category to me:
The Pixies
The Replacements

X
Generation X
Clash
Hot Water Music (i suppose a bit closer to hardcore here)
New York Dolls
Stooges

so many great bands to list.
locals like
the real kids
gang green
the black clouds

pir8matt

10-10-2008, 10:16 AM

I never really cared for the oldschool punkrock stuff. Ramones et al. were, I admit, pretty lame to me.

I liked Green Day when they hit it big, I was 13 or 14 at the time

A band like Green Day wouldn't have existed if it weren't for The Ramones. Just sayin'. In fact, Billie Joe armstrong said it himself!

By Billie Joe Armstrong (http://search.ew.com/EWSearch/ew/search/search.html?type=ew:Billie+Joe+Armstrong;)

It's impossible to play punk-rock guitar without being influenced by Johnny Ramone. What he did was simultaneously complex and simple. He brought this blitzkrieg explosiveness to his playing and at the same time showed that you don't need to be an incredible musician to play this music — that you can do more with less.

I got to know Johnny after I ran into him at a bar in Los Angeles in 1997, when Green Day was recording our album Nimrod. Even though he and I were very different on the political end of things, we could always sit around and talk music. It was mind-blowing to get feedback from him, because he was a hero of mine.

When Green Day played at the Ramones' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, he came backstage afterward and told us, ''That was great — you guys sounded really good.'' Then he said, ''But you went a little bit out of tune at the end there.'' One thing about Johnny: He was always as brutally honest as his playing. (Ramone died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles.)

jeffhef

10-10-2008, 10:34 AM

A band like Green Day wouldn't have existed if it weren't for The Ramones. Just sayin'. In fact, Billie Joe armstrong said it himself!

By Billie Joe Armstrong (http://search.ew.com/EWSearch/ew/search/search.html?type=ew:Billie+Joe+Armstrong;)

It's impossible to play punk-rock guitar without being influenced by Johnny Ramone. What he did was simultaneously complex and simple. He brought this blitzkrieg explosiveness to his playing and at the same time showed that you don't need to be an incredible musician to play this music — that you can do more with less.

I got to know Johnny after I ran into him at a bar in Los Angeles in 1997, when Green Day was recording our album Nimrod. Even though he and I were very different on the political end of things, we could always sit around and talk music. It was mind-blowing to get feedback from him, because he was a hero of mine.

When Green Day played at the Ramones' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, he came backstage afterward and told us, ''That was great — you guys sounded really good.'' Then he said, ''But you went a little bit out of tune at the end there.'' One thing about Johnny: He was always as brutally honest as his playing. (Ramone died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles.)

A lot of people don't realize that these guys...especially Johnny and Joey...were students of music. The Ramones always included a cover tune. For example...California Sun, Surfin' Bird, Needles & Pins, etc. For a while I used to say they were like the Beach Boys in their ability to turn a tune.

Joey & Johnny ended up not really being friends but they had a very special musical relationship. AND...a lot of people don't realize how many songs were written by Dee Dee.

To me...it was refreshing. It seemed to revive R&R at the time. So many bands had gotten SO stale. Everything sounded the same. Punk kicked 'em in the butt.

Of the later bands the one's I feel who really carried it on into it's natural progression were The Offspring, Green Day & Social Distortion. This is not to say the others named here were less relevant. It's just that these bands didn't just cop the style and riff's...they made it their own. A lot of people back in the day didn't understand that these guys could play and write. So you had some bands who copied them but weren't very talented. These 3 bands I think understood you needed to learn to play your instrument and you had to write good stuff.

Didn't take me long to figure out that Johnny Ramone knew what he was doing. Try playing an hour of all down strokes and fast chord changes...that'll teach you.

I really miss The Ramones. I'm very grateful I got to see them.

jeffhef

rickmebe

10-10-2008, 12:02 PM

Refused The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts

Awesome sounds and production on this 1998 punk classic by the Swedish punkers...

geetarboy

10-10-2008, 01:07 PM

Knuckles

10-10-2008, 01:52 PM

Whether you call them punk, postpunk, whatever - Husker Du were my favorite band in high school and still get a lot of play time from me. Of all the "punk" stuff I listened to, Husker Du and the Clash are the ones that have stuck with me.

Absolutely. Husker Du don't get enough credit for the more melodic bent of what became "alternative" rock.

mikem

10-10-2008, 02:02 PM

A lot of people don't realize that these guys...especially Johnny and Joey...were students of music. The Ramones always included a cover tune. For example...California Sun, Surfin' Bird, Needles & Pins, etc. For a while I used to say they were like the Beach Boys in their ability to turn a tune.

Joey & Johnny ended up not really being friends but they had a very special musical relationship. AND...a lot of people don't realize how many songs were written by Dee Dee.

To me...it was refreshing. It seemed to revive R&R at the time. So many bands had gotten SO stale. Everything sounded the same. Punk kicked 'em in the butt.

Of the later bands the one's I feel who really carried it on into it's natural progression were The Offspring, Green Day & Social Distortion. This is not to say the others named here were less relevant. It's just that these bands didn't just cop the style and riff's...they made it their own. A lot of people back in the day didn't understand that these guys could play and write. So you had some bands who copied them but weren't very talented. These 3 bands I think understood you needed to learn to play your instrument and you had to write good stuff.

Didn't take me long to figure out that Johnny Ramone knew what he was doing. Try playing an hour of all down strokes and fast chord changes...that'll teach you.

I really miss The Ramones. I'm very grateful I got to see them.

jeffhef

A college friend turned me onto a lot of punk/new wave stuff back in the late eighties- I was listening to a lot of metal and alternative stuff. It didn't take me long to figure out that the Ramones kicked major ass when I listened to them on his car stereo. Thanks, Roger! I too am a fan of the Offspring, Social D and to a lesser extent, Green Day. Excellent bands in their own ways. Nothing turns me on like the roar of Mike Ness' Les Paul through a cranked Marshall- THAT is what a cranked Marshall sounds like!

Mike

percepeid

10-10-2008, 02:03 PM

Definately Husker Du belongs there.
I'd add Dag Nasty and (obviously) The Buzzcocks

Jet Age Eric

10-10-2008, 02:05 PM

I love the Jam, the Stooges (or at least Funhouse), and Buzzcocks. Dig the Clash Do the MC5 count? However, I really can't stand the newer bands you mentioned. I have a ton of respect for Husker Du, and I totally recommend the Thermals. -E

I know...it's probably been done. But a couple of weeks ago I saw The Offspring and I'm back in punk rock mode.

So...

I'm 48 years old. The first time I heard punk was when I bought The Ramones "Rocket To Russia". That was when I was like 16 or 17. I was really sick of everything out at the time. It all sounded the same and Kiss had gone disco so the world was coming to an end. I'd seen all the stuff on the news at the time about how "Bad" punk was but I bit when I saw the album cover. THANK YOU ARTURO VEGA!!!

I was totally shocked!! I immediately was deep in. Some of my favorites from the day...

The Ramones - Still my favorite.
The Damned
The Runaways - Everyone classified them as punk back then.
Sex Pistols
The Clash - Although...I didn't really think they were pure punk. But who was.
Richard Hell & the Voidoids
The Jam
Iggy Pop - Never forget the Cream Magazine with him bleeding all over the place.
Talking Heads - Once again...kind of transcended the punk label
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
And yes...I liked early Blondie too.
I even liked Adam and the Ants.

Then later...

Social Distortion
Green Day
The Offspring

of the newer ones...obviously Social Distortion was awesome. I really like Green Day. But to me the band that's really Punk evolved is The Offspring.

BTW...I did get to see the Ramones. The lineup I saw was Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee & Markie and I count myself lucky.

How bout it...any punk love?

jeffhef

Sunil

10-10-2008, 02:14 PM

The Damned was my fave for a couple of years in high school, along with The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, The Buzzcocks, and other Brits (not so much into American punk). The Jam was a big favorite, but they weren't a punk band. They had all the energy and intensity of punk, and were influenced by the 1976-77 punk events in the UK, but they were decidedly not punk in their style of dress and image, and Paul Weller's lyrics, though tinged with some of the working class, anarcho-socialist leanings of groups like The Clash, had a lot of nationalist overtones to it, which many of the early punks derided. Going to knock on nostalgia's door and see The Damned in San Franciso later this month. Though I'm more of a jazz musician these days, I still enjoy listening to punk, and many of the politics and lifestyle aspects associated with early punk still resonate with me as I push 40.

-- Sunil

nnick

10-10-2008, 02:19 PM

A college friend turned me onto a lot of punk/new wave stuff back in the late eighties- I was listening to a lot of metal and alternative stuff. It didn't take me long to figure out that the Ramones kicked major ass when I listened to them on his car stereo. Thanks, Roger! I too am a fan of the Offspring, Social D and to a lesser extent, Green Day. Excellent bands in their own ways. Nothing turns me on like the roar of Mike Ness' Les Paul through a cranked Marshall- THAT is what a cranked Marshall sounds like!

Mike

Mike Ness usually uses some kind of Fender amp. I think a Bassman head with a Marshall cab. The only pedal I've seen him using was a Boss SD-1

JoeYello

10-10-2008, 02:49 PM

The Pistols were beast!! Steve Jones...need I say more?

jeffhef

Jeff...............we like the same bands....move to Jersey and join the Joe Yello Band (we need a second guitarist).............I'll play bass!

It's a great deal we hardly ever practice or play so it won't interfere with your life! LOL

Joe

Tone_Terrific

10-10-2008, 03:14 PM

I'm 48 years old. The first time I heard punk was when I bought The Ramones "Rocket To Russia". That was when I was like 16 or 17. I was really sick of everything out at the time. It all sounded the same and Kiss had gone disco so the world was coming to an end.

Do you realize that everything out at the time included the Beatles, Stones, Who, Floyd, Zep, Yes, Genesis, Purple, Crimson, Hendrix, Aerosmith, early VH, Sabbath, Priest, Rory G, Roy Buchanan...and on and on and none of it was 'good' enough for a 16 year old punk!!!!????

No wonder there's a gen X generation gap:boxer ..kids!:stir

pfflam

10-10-2008, 03:22 PM

Check out the Wrangler Brutes . . . great stuff, blend of intense hardcore with Minutemen brevity and fast invention . . . . PLUS, from what I can tell, their singer must be in his late 50s or early 60s

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/covers/review_id-1961.jpg

wsaraceni

10-10-2008, 03:45 PM

some of my favorites

operation ivy
suicide machines
slapstick
against all authority
plan a project
goldfinger
rancid
bigwig
catch 22

Joe Robinson

10-10-2008, 04:05 PM

Mike Ness usually uses some kind of Fender amp. I think a Bassman head with a Marshall cab. The only pedal I've seen him using was a Boss SD-1

Yeah I always think of Mike Ness with some kind of Tweed amp. Great sound though.

One of the best sets of rock n' roll I ever saw was a free Social D show at Long Beach State in 1987 or wherabouts.

bobgoblin

10-10-2008, 04:48 PM

I think he uses a Bassman head into a 4x12 Marshall cab. I've seen him use an SD-1, too, but I've also seen just tuner on the floor. That Thrush-stickered, P90 LP is a beast!

For me, its the Pistols, Social D, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Misfits, the Cramps, the Clash, the Exploited, the Damned, and newer bands like Gogol Bordello, Dropkick Murphys, and old Tiger Army.

Zelja

10-10-2008, 05:26 PM

If you dig punk then you need to know about The Saints, from Brisbane, Australia - their 1st single was out before the Pistols or the Damned. The album of the same name - I'm Stranded -is an aural assualt while still being down right poppy at times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-GueNOKolo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jiayjSrkho&feature=related

A ballad - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwYI7yQzWs&feature=related

On their 2nd album "Eternally Yours" they added horns & some polish, & still rocked. "Know Your Product" is one of the best singles of any genre ever!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLbyaNbhHdU&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_157805

mikem

10-10-2008, 05:31 PM

Mike Ness usually uses some kind of Fender amp. I think a Bassman head with a Marshall cab. The only pedal I've seen him using was a Boss SD-1

That's what the old Marshalls were based on. I stand corrected, none the less. That's what a cranked Marshall should sound like- LOL.

Mike

Smü

10-11-2008, 02:20 AM

A band like Green Day wouldn't have existed if it weren't for The Ramones.

I didn't say that the Ramones are in any way lame, I said that they were lame to me. Yeah important and stuff. But I didn't and don't like them.

MichaelThomas

10-11-2008, 09:49 AM

NOFX and The Vandals popped my punk rock cherry

BobbyFudge

10-11-2008, 10:36 AM

III

10-11-2008, 11:11 AM

If you dig punk then you need to know about The Saints, from Brisbane, Australia
Thanx... never heard 'em before. I'll have to hunt some down.

Seems like a good time for Battalion Of Saints. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NciZvSbMjU

jeffhef

10-11-2008, 07:29 PM

NOFX and The Vandals popped my punk rock cherry

I saw The Vandals open for No Doubt a while back. Pretty good band.

jeffhef

jeffhef

10-11-2008, 07:31 PM

Thing is...even if you didn't like punk...there is no doubt that it lit a fire uner the old guard. Everybody woke up to the fact that people were sick of the same old crap. We could use a new movement like that now.

jeffhef

datguytim

10-11-2008, 07:35 PM

F*ck yeah! From Iggy & the Stooges, Dead Boys, Ramones, GenX, Clash, Pistols, Damned, Saints, Germs, Black Flag, etc., etc. to Bad Brains, Poison Idea, Stupids, Crucifix, Blast, etc., etc. True Punk Rock is the SH*T!!!

I love all kinds of music (Jazz, R&B, Classic Rock, Soul, Reggae, Funk, etc.), but never forget that Punk Rock saved my life.

jeffhef

10-11-2008, 07:55 PM

If you haven't seen it check out Arturo Vega's Ramones World...

http://www.officialramones.com/

Extremely nice guy and very responsive. I sent him an email and he replied to me really fast and sent me 2 unpiblished graphics. Arturo Was the creative director for the band. Excellent site.

I know some of you won't agree...but to me...The Ramones were one of the most original bands of the last 35 years.

jeffhef

jgyn

10-11-2008, 09:34 PM

Speaking of which, I'm planning to see the band 'Wire' 10/15 in San Francisco (Fillmore).

EL-Dougie

10-12-2008, 08:44 AM

All these great bands are bringing back some great memories.

Punk rock was a big thing in my life. Spun tons of discs as a dj at the world's first punk rock disco (as reported in Time Magazine at the time), La Mere Vipere, in Chicago, from Mother's Day 1977 to my 26th birthday on the 26th of April 1978 (when it burned to the ground). Was also lucky enough to do a radio show of punk/wave music of my choosing from 1979 - 1987 at WZRD in Chicago (non-student dj at a college station).

Just converted cassettes of the radio show to CD and have been listening to a 10-CD, 2 night set of 1977 singles retrospective, arranged alpabetically by band/performer.

Saw the Ramones about a dozen times, interviewed them once for a different commercial radio show (Joey and Tommy). Iggy was a favorite of mine, too, and I must have seen him 15 times in the Chicago area. Saw Black Flag about 10 times, too (and, at age 30, got accused of being an effin cop by some little 12-year old mohawked kid).

Went to concerts by the Dammned, Clash, Undertones, Blondie, Television, Patti Smith, Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, Magazine, Penetration, 999, Lou Reed, Ian Dury, Dickies, Husker Du, Fear, Dead Kennedys, Stranglers, Elvis Costello, Ultravox, Pere Ubu, Dead Boys, Dictators, Generation X, Sonics Rendezvous, Cramps, XTC, Wire, Misfits, Wayne/Jayne County, Jam, Devo, Flipper, X, and locals like Naked Raygun, Effigies, Strike Under, Skafish, TuTu and the Pirates, Desmond, Algebra Suicide, Pile of Cows, Big Black, Silver Abuse, Stations, Toothpaste, Special Affect (early Ministry/Thrill Kill Kult/Concrete Blond members).

Great stuff!