roachboy

punk comes out of all kinds of things--the who and early kinks among them--- but more directly, it comes out of the legion of garage bands that defined the semi-underground of the rock-n-roll back when it was of interest. long ago. anyway, in my capacity as old fart, i can say that i listened alot--and i mean alot--to the stooges when i was in high school and so when i first heard uk punk i didnt get it at all because it seemed like there was no there there. now that i've listened to alot of uk punk in retrospect, most of it seems like nice pop music. the stooges plus slade. add reggae/ska and you get the clash. etc.

so far as i am concerned, the minutemen embodied everything punk was.
it figures that at the time, alot of punk kids didn't like them.
too strange. too much captain beefheart (the eternal punk in a way)

and that about sums it up.

so it follows that, in 2008, "punk" is to radical as an edsel is to new.

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