[lbo-talk] AllHipHop.com interviews Bad Brains about

[B.]

I think this is a good definition of what post-punk is
NOT, but in turn also what it is:

http://www.historyshots.com/Rockmusic/index.cfm

A "Genealogy of Pop/Rock" wall poster, which starts in
the 1950s with pioneers like Little Richard and Carl
Perkins, and draws the end-line, which for this poster
is 1980, with folks like John Travolta, Eddie Money,
and Bonnie Tyler. Yes, John Travolta. At the end of
the arc, in 1980. Punk, much less post-punk, is
literally not on this sprawling map. (Bowie is barely
squeezed in the margins.)

The poster is 36" x 20" and is $33, before shipping.
Discounted when it's bought in bulk!

I think that explains quite a lot!

-B.

Doug Henwood wrote:

"Yeah, and before that the VU. That's how I came to
punk - in the  early/mid-70s, amidst all the pap there
was Eno-era Roxy Music, then  Eno solo, etc. And the
NY Dolls."