Respects to Joey Ramone, but

[Chuck Munson]

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, virgil tibbs wrote:
> 
> > the 20th century?  Let's not get carried away with
> > awarding the likes of the Sex Pistols and Joey Ramone
> 
> The Sex Pistols really were musical revolutionaries: the power-chord, very
> tight recursive studio editing, plus those blistering lyrics, delivered in
> Johnny Rotten's Cockney delivery -- the power-packed body-slam of
> the nascent Europroletariat. Deindustrialized Britain exported songs where
> Central Europe exported machine-tools.

And it's hard to argue that Americans didn't go crazy over punk. Maybe
not the masses, but enough people to carry punk through 20+ years of
interesting music and politics. Punk has also always had a strong DIY
"don't sell out" ethic. 

Hopefully, tomorrow night I can go see the second coming of the Sex
Pistols. Yep, Strike Anywhere is playing at the Black Cat.

I'm not kidding about that last statement.

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