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The first "punks" are obviously Eddie Cochran (covered by the Pistols et al) and Jerry Lee Lewis.
You have to wait until The Specials until British post punk started thinking about race and early hip hop really took the DIY baton and ran with it until like anything 'punk' it just became the new mainstream.
I'm not really sure where it went after that but maybe I was too fat and old to have anything to do with whatever it was. Things like Drill and Trap maybe - they speak to particular audiences and are, rightfully, quite alien to many of us.
Desperate Bicycles,
Complete anthology here.
Let's not forget that.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
The Boston scene was good too - The Maps, Real Kids, Lyres etc
i never liked West Coast punk much.
I don't know if it was intentional or not but there's some punk songs that sound very like "traditional" Irish folk music and vice versa. Especially as they get more drunk, things speed up and the vocals get more shouty.
If you've never heard it you might think I'm talking rubbish but once you've heard it it's hard to deny.
Oi!
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Anyhow, they were called 2.3, and had a decent tune called "Fuck the Front" which was a protest about the racist National Front organisation in the 1970's.
Their main claim to fame was actually introducing Phil Oakey and the fledgling Human League to Fast Records, and getting them their first gig. I remember seeing them I think at the Black Swan in Sheffield, and they were dreadful. No-one saw their meteoric rise to fame coming.
I hear Clem Burke is filming a documentary about the impact of CBGB's....I am really looking forward to it.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I played there long after it’s heyday it was still a cool place though.
It was "I'm Only Little' by 'Neon' a band from Durham that I used to know back in 1978.
I reckon that it might just belong in the non punk 'punk' performance category.
Hope that you like it as much as I still do.
"I'm Only Little' is at 2m 17s if you can't wait that long