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Polish Punk Rabbit Hole

#22
Pyrrho Epoche said:
Very good. ;) I play alot of gypsy jazz/punk too! Fretless picking on flats with a fat pick sounds great.







Compiled a rather large playlist to jam to:
Ska & Klezmer
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"Dats der **** man"

:)

Thanks for the link!
 
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Pyrrho Epoche said:
Lady Pank is more New Wavish. TILT had some punk undertones too.
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Yeah, Lady Pank is a pop band and has been very popular since the 80's and even toured to a limited degree in the US back in the PRL (Communist) days. I've played with Jan Borysewicz from Lady Pank in jam situations and he's an excellent player.

With TILT, you have to include Brygada Kryzys (Crisis Brigade) which was arguably more punkish and hugely influential (both with Tomek Lipiński) - also active from the early 80's (helps to know that Poland was under martial law during this time - Martial law in Poland - Wikipedia )

One of the first punk bands in Poland was Elektra/Poerocks Poerocks – Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia which started in '77 (I played just last month with Waldemar Mleczko who fronted that band).
 
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I was well into punk back in the 70's but my definition of 'punk' was largely UK bands around '76 to '78 anything after that era for me became passe, even such greats as The Ruts that appeared just after were to me more 'post punk', which I know is viewing the world through the wrong end of a telescope. Don't get me wrong on my listening list back then you had Iggy, Patti Smith, NYD's, Ramones, Devo :)cautious:) to name a few US artists too, but I kinda drifted out of the genre before Henry Rollins made his appearance.
Listening to many of these Polish artists reminds me of how it used to be back then with the UK and US bands, simple unadulterated PUNK. Thank you @Pyrrho Epoche for digging this unknown (to me) trove of great music, I'm going to spend many a happy hour looking into and listening to great stuff like this. :thumbsup:
 
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And for something slightly different, a guy who played drums in a band I was in about 12 years ago had this idea that what if instead of imitating 1970s English punk starting a few years later, we were the ones who invented punk before World War II, with period instrumentation and complaining about the politics of the time and all that? As absurd as this sounds, he made it happen. They'd even print dates on their concert posters that were 80 years back, list concert dates with German city names with gigging in Silesia and so on.

 
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pklima said:
And for something slightly different, a guy who played drums in a band I was in about 12 years ago had this idea that what if instead of imitating 1970s English punk starting a few years later, we were the ones who invented punk before World War II, with period instrumentation and complaining about the politics of the time and all that? As absurd as this sounds, he made it happen. They'd even print dates on their concert posters that were 80 years back, list concert dates with German city names with gigging in Silesia and so on.

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My wife's dad settled in the UK after serving with the Free Poles over here. He eventually bought her mom (to be) over and the kids were born over here. Poles love their accordions and dad was no exception, trouble is he couldn't play it. She told me everytime it looked like he was going to get it out, the kids would scurry out the house as quick as their little legs could carry them to anywhere else but there. Seeing this reminds me of that tale she told me, although this guy can play. Great people, great country and proud my kids are half Polish.
 
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pklima said:
And for something slightly different, a guy who played drums in a band I was in about 12 years ago had this idea that what if instead of imitating 1970s English punk starting a few years later, we were the ones who invented punk before World War II, with period instrumentation and complaining about the politics of the time and all that? As absurd as this sounds, he made it happen. They'd even print dates on their concert posters that were 80 years back, list concert dates with German city names with gigging in Silesia and so on.

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That's great. Wasn't aware of them but will look for them if playing in the area (Lower Silesia). Thanks.

And love the 'figa z makiem' logo!
 
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Very cool, thank you for sharing! It makes perfect sense, though I never thought to check for Polish punk!

On a related note, maybe straying farther away from what's relevant to a bass forum, but the rebellion in art has been strong in Poland for a long time (worth checking out for anyone who enjoys poetry):
Postwar Polish Poetry
 
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[/QUOTE] This morning I have no giddy-up-and-go (midwest snowstorm today; deep freeze next week).

After listening to these selections, my giddy-up is now going!

Thank you! :thumbsup::)[/QUOTE]

There is so much great, great ego-less music out there that lifts you to a higher plane, instead of lowering your constituency.

I think we all know that this(the raising you up) is the real punk---the music of the real people. Like the CRASS saying states; "Be warned, the cause of your oppression, is the aesthetic of our anger".

Anybody translate this one? I know the name of the band is Gówno(poopie)



 
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Pyrrho Epoche said:
This morning I have no giddy-up-and-go (midwest snowstorm today; deep freeze next week).

After listening to these selections, my giddy-up is now going!

Thank you! :thumbsup::)
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There is so much great, great ego-less music out there that lifts you to a higher plane, instead of lowering your constituency.

I think we all know that this(the raising you up) is the real punk---the music of the real people. Like the CRASS saying states; "Be warned, the cause of your oppression, is the aesthetic of our anger".

Anybody translate this one? I know the name of the band is Gówno(poopie)



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Yep -- music reaches our soul and reveals what's going on in there.
 
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