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Was there any good punk rock?
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++1. This point is key. When Johnny Rotten was screaming into the mic “No future for You!”, it wasn’t a joke. The crowd screaming with him weren’t joking, either.
When you find out the Americans went on heightened alert & raised the DEFCON rating because a flock of birds flew past a radar station, you realize tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. More certain was you weren’t going to afford to live as well as your parents, & many places in the UK recently got housing restored, & some without communal bathrooms. National rations ended 10-15 years before, & these will be the good ‘ol days. Few years later the band UB40 was formed by ppl waiting in an unemployment line - UB40 is a British unemployment form.
Yes, cynical Malcolm McLaren put together the Sex Pistols to make £, & plenty of poseurs were putting on a show for attention, but when the Sex Pistols sang “No Future”, they were as serious as a heart attack. Teens & 20-somethings had plenty to rebel against.
Speaking about technique, to play punk rock is a great way to develop stamina and, at the same time, sharp the precision of the picking hand.
The parts may be simple in many cases but to play them correctly isn't easy as it seems. You are metaphorically naked and you can't hide the mistakes.
Sometimes, to challenge myself, I play along - downstrokes only - with the Ramones' Loco Live cd. It's a very humbling experience.
The parts may be simple in many cases but to play them correctly isn't easy as it seems. You are metaphorically naked and you can't hide the mistakes.
Sometimes, to challenge myself, I play along - downstrokes only - with the Ramones' Loco Live cd. It's a very humbling experience.
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I meant the HBO series Vinyl. Gravitates towards punk during it's only season. Directed by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese. Check it out.
Johnny Rotten was sincere when he recorded those words. It's one of the things one can't fake it and this sincerity is one of the things that make Nevermind such a great album. You may not like it but that record is full of primal vitality. That thing is alive.
"We mean it, man". Definitely.
Music wasn’t about fashion before Punk? No fashion trends took off because of any musical artists before Punk?
Punk’s influence on the Music industry & the downfall of Rock is overblown - did other musical genres other than Rock thrive in the past 45 years?
Oh, sorry. Yeah, saw it when it was out new.
//I mean, it really would be cool if we could somehow directly embed tracks from vinyl here.
Obviously you didn’t sit in the backseat of a car next to luggage in 1975, asking for someone to cycle thru the radio stations for something decent to listen to while you play cards & look at license plates. When you did find a decent station, you desperately massaged the tuner to keep the signal as long as possible.
If you’re motivated, you can search for the Billboard hits at the time & give ‘em a listen - I don’t need to relive those melodies.
+ The complexity must be superior to simplicity mentality or argument, more is more vs less is more, is braindead.
Case in point.
One of my first bands broke up because of such stupid arguments. It was very frustrating to watch these heated and fruitless fights between two of my bandmates, both idiotically attached to their opposite positions.
We eventually regrouped with a different line up and went to a new and more complicated direction (as the winner side wanted us to do) but, in retrospect, I'm glad to learn so early how such points of view are a complete waste of time.
Great song, BTW.
The punk fad lasted a year or two and then something else came along.
Of course, the music will be around forever and there will pretty much always be an audience for it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
But as far as it being mainstream, the big thing of the day, the statement which resets music, people out and about with sticky-out hair and safety pins for jewellery, the rebellious movement which is being reported in the mainstream press, going to gigs where people spit all over you; that's been and gone.
That's a cartoon. Your understanding and account of what's be going on, time and history, up to the present, are simply false.
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