HISTORY OF PUNK ROCK TEST ONE

Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)

1941 - 2010 Protege of Frank Zappa (childhood friends, huge falling out) Early Recordings blues / R & B based Most famous (and revered) LP is Trout Mask Replica (1969) - A noisy, bluesy, avant-garde masterpiece. BBC Disc Jockey John Peel said "If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then "Trout Mask Replica is probably that work" Punks love Beefheart's uncompromising music / vision.

Tops of the Pops (TOTP)

1964 - 2006 Each weekly program consisted of performances from some of that week's best-selling pop music artists, with a rundown of that week's singles chart.

New York City: A Snapshot

1974: Abe Beame elected Mayor. - city on verge of bankruptcy - Massive cuts in city government; municipal payroll reduced by 65,000. - City's welfare rolls reach over 1 million. 1975: Beame asks for federal assistance to avoid declaring bankruptcy. President Gerald Ford declines prompting this famous Newspaper headline on Oct. 20, 1975: "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD"

Tony Wilson (1950 - 2007)

1976 - Wilson is the host of "So it Goes" in Manchester and books the Sex Pistols for their first British TV appearance August 28th, 1976. Founded Factory Records and the Hacienda club. Played a major role in the post-punk scene in Manchester working with Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays.

Sniffin Glue

1st issue printed July 1976 (sold 50 copies) Typed and hand-lettered. By 1978, it's selling 15,000 copies / issue. Disillusioned by punk, PErry ends the magazine in 1978.

What is punk essense?

A desire to change the world, a desire that begins with the demand to live not as an object of history but as a subject of history - to lve as if something actually depended on one's actions. - Greil Marcus

Ed Sanders

A member of the Fugs who referred to his new record as "punk rock" 1970

Max's Kansas City (pt. 2)

After the breakup of The Sex Pistols Sid Vicious played many solo gigs there. Devo played several shows at Max's in 1977, including a show where they were introduced by David Bowie as "the band of the future" Max's closed in November 1981.

Stiff Significance

Although not the first punk era independent label, Stiff was truly independent in who they signed (everyone from Motorhead to Madness), how they marketed and promoted acts, designed sleeves (the amazing Barney Bubbles), and in their attitude toward the mainstream music industry. - 1983: Island Records buys 50% share. - Soon after the label is sold to ZTT (Zang Tumb Tuum)

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)

American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, a leading figure in the visual arts movement known as pop art.

Skinheads (late 1960s)

Around 1965, a rift developed between PEACOCK MODS, who were less violent and always wore the latest expensive clothes, and HARD MODS who were identified by their shorter hair and more working-class image.

Skinheads and Racism

As the 1970d progressed, racially-motivated skinhead violence ("paki-bashing") in the UK became more prevalent, and racist organizations such as the National Front saw a rise in the skinheads among their ranks. Although many skinheads rejected political labels, some working class skinheads blamed non-white immigrants for economic and social problems, and agreed with far right organizations' positions against blacks and asians. By the late 1970s, some neo Nazi groups were largely composed of skinheads, and by this point, the mass media and the general public, had come to view skinheads exclusively as a subculture promoting white power.

Pre-Punk

Avant-garde, glam rock, pub rock

Seymour Stein

Born in 1942, he is the cofounder and (still) president of Sire Records, the label that put punk and New Wave (and Madonna) on the map. - One of the last old-school record men, Stein anticipated punk / new wave signing the Ramones in 1975. "It was like sticking my hand in a live electric socket."

Don Letts (1956)

Born in London Crucial figure in the British punk scene. Introduced many UK bands to ska and reggae. DJ at the Roxy, worked at Acme Attractions and Sex. Early chronicler (film) of the London punk scene. Coolest looking guy on the planet. A successful author, filmmaker (both fiction and documentaries), and hosts a great radio show on the BBC.

Hilly Kristal (1931 - 2007)

Born in NYC. Former Marine, he studied music as a child and for a short time sang in the men's choir at Radio City Music Hall. Managed the Village Vanguard jazz club. Co-founded the Central Park Music Festival Impossible to imagine that New York underground rock scene of the 70s (that would eventually become punk) without him.

Pub Rock (anti-glam, anti-prog)

British back-to-basics musical movement of the early and mid-1970s that provided an alternative to progressive and glam rock. Pub rock bands played an amalgam of American country, blues, R&B, and 50s style rock and roll. - Although a relatively short-lived phenomenon, pub rock was notable both for returning rock to the small clubs of its early years and as a breeding ground for many of the punk and new wave artists of the late 1970s.

Chiswick Records

Chiswick (pronounced "Chizzick") was the first true independent label to be established in Britain since the early 1960s. - The label was started by Roger Armstrong and Ted Carroll in 1975 as a subsidiary of their record store Rock On Records. - For nearly a decade the label was significant in the early punk releasing records by the 101ers, the Nipple Erectors (featuring Shane Macgowan, later of the Pogues).

Anarchy

Comes from the Greek AN ARCHOS meaning "no government". It maintains that no coercive institutions are justified and should be replaced by social and economic organizations based on voluntary contractual agreement. At times what constitutes "real anarchy" varies from anarchist to anarchist. - E.g., peaceful change vs. use of violence. - Generally speaking anarchy is not the same as chaos.

The New York Dolls

Dave Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Johnny Thunders, Arthur Kane, Jerry Nolan. Original lineup releases two incredibly important LPs (New York Dolls, 73 / Too Much Too Soon, 1974) Strongly influenced by blues and R&B they were an American version of the Rolling Stones with more makeup (and attitude) Briefly managed by Malcolm McClaren, who later managed the Sex Pistols Surviving members reunite in 2004 to play a show and then Arthur Kane (bassist) dies very shortly after.

Teddy Boys (late 50s, early 60s)

Edwardians, or "Teddy Boys" are an English youth subculture that created a distinctive style by wearing clothes inspired by the Edwardian period that tailors of Savile Row attempted to reintroduce after World War II. The subculture started in London in the 1950s and rapidly spread across the UK, soon becoming strongly associated with American rock and roll of the period (especially rockabilly).

Anarchy in the UK: 1975.

England mired in a recession. By July worst unemployment since WWII. 30,000 squatters living in abandoned flats in London. Racial tensions (Notting Hill, Brixton) IRA bombing campaign.

Punk According to Merriam-Webster

Etymology: origin uknown date: 15961 archaic: prostitute 2: nonsense, foolishness 3a: a young inexperienced person: beginner, novice; especially: a young man, a usually petty gangster, hoodlum, or ruffian. slang: a young man used as a homosexual partner especially in prisoner. 4. punk rock, a punk rock musician, one who affects punk styles.

Suicide

Formed 1971 in New York Martin Rev (synth, drum machines), Alan Vega (vocals) Music is doomy, dissonant, and very intense. Audiences hated them. Vega, as did Iggy Pop, often injured himself, or was injured by the audience. More influential than popular, especially among more avant-garde punks.

Talking Heads

Formed 1974. Disbanded 91. David Bryne (guitar, vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass), Chris Frantz (drums), Jerry Harrison (keyboards). First gig at CBGBs June 8th, 1975. Punk Rock? Or is it pop/funk/art rock with non-Western overtones. Byrne, Frantz, and Weymouth met at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Successful working relationship with producer Brian Eno. Top-40 and Top-10 hits. 2002 inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Modern Lovers

Formed in 1971, from Boston Jonothan Richman, Ernie Brooks, Jerry Harrison (later in Talking Heads), David Robinson (later in The Cars) 1976 release self-titled debut LP. Tracks had been recorded as early as 1972 with John Cale producing. Contains the song "Roadrunner" as punk as "pre-punk" gets. Dozens of covers of the song from Sex Pistols to Joan Jett. 1974 original band splits. Richman hires new musicians, renames band Jonothan Richman and the Modern Lovers Quirky, but influential (see Talking Heads)

The Dictators

Formed in 1974 in NY. Handsome Dick Manitoba, Andy Shernoff, Ross "The Boss" Friedman, Scott "Top Ten" Kempner. Steven Van Zandt calls them "The connective tissue between the eras of the MC5, Stooges, New York Dolls, and the punk explosion of the mid-to-late- 1970s". From 1975 - 1978 the band releases 3 essential records: The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!, Manifest Destiny, and Bloodbrothers. Frequently played CBGB's, though recorded before the "punk" label came to identify bands associated with the club.

Richard Hell and the Voidoids

Formed, New York City, 1976. Richard Hell (Meyers) (bass, vocals), Robert Quine (guitar), Ivan Julian (guitar), Marc Bell (drums) Hell was a member of the Heartbreakers (w/ Johnny Thunders) and the Neon Boys (w/ Tom Verlaine). Seminal LP and song Blank Generation released in 1977. Hell was the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts held together with safety pins. Malcom McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has said Hell was and important inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look, as well as the safety-pin accessorized clothing McClaren sold in his shop, Sex.

The Stooges

From Detroit Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Dave Alexander, Scott "Rock Action" Asheton Loud, simple, repetitive songs Debut LP produced by VU's John Cale. Confrontational performance (influenced by The Doors) Sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences, Iggy frequently ending up bloodied and beaten. Elected to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.

The Ramones

From Forrest Hills, Queens, NYC Began 1974; ended 1996 Johnny (John cummings), Joey (Jeff Hyman) Dee Dee (Douglas Colvin), Tommy (Tommy erdelyi) Marky (Mark Bell) 15 (or so) LPs; 2000+ gigs (1st LP April 23, 1976) Inducted in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2002. - Surname "Ramone" came from a pseudonym used by Paul McCartney (Paul Ramon) in the early days of the Beatles.

The Velvet Underground

From New York Members: Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Nico, Maureen "Moe" Tucker Named after a porn novel. (Occasionally) dissonant, noisy, avant garde rock band (with pop songs about heroin and sado masochism) Part of artist Andy Warhol's entourage Performed in Warhol's multimedia show The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Released 1 LP the same year as Sgt. Pepper, sold poorly, yet remains extremely influential. Lou Reed most commercially successful ex-member.

Dr. Feelgood

From: Canvey Island, Essex, England. Formed: 1971. Lee Brilleaux (vox), Wilko Johnson (guitar), John B. Sparks (Bass), The Big Figure (AKA John Martin, drums) - Like many pub rock acts, Dr. Feelgood were known primarily for their high energy live performances, although albums such as Down by the Jetty (1974) and Malpractice (1975) were also popular. - Dr. Feelgood exists today with no original members participating. Their breakthrough 1976 LP, Stupidity (recorded live) reached #1 on the UK albums chart. Despite their British success, Dr. Feelgood never found an audience in America.

Jamie Reid (1952)

Graphic artist, attended school with Malcom McLaren. Created the "ransome note" visual style of the Sex Pistols singles and LP cover. Affiliated with anarchist groups and situationists.

Lenny Kaye

Guitarist for Patti Smith Group. Rock Historian. Compiler/Annotator of "Nuggets" "This is the story of a transition period in American rock and roll, of a changing era which dashed by so fast that nobody knew much what to make of it while it was around, only noticeable in retrospect by the vast series of innovations it would eventually spawn, both in the way music would be listened and to the way it was constructed" - 1972

Skinheads pt. 2

Hard mods became known as skinheads in 1968. Their shorter hair may have come about for practical reasons, since long hair was a liability in industrial jobs and in street fights. Skinheads also cut their hair short in defiance of the more middle class hippie culture popular at the time. Early skinheads were interested in Jamaican rude boy styles and culture, especially the music: ska, rocksteady, and early reggae.

The Long Hot Summer

Hottest summer on record (temps in the 90s)' drought conditions. 14 small bombs are set off in London's West End. Strikes (miners, garbage collectors, truck drivers), power cuts, escalating unemployment. Notting Hill Riots June: Ramones play the Roundhouse opening for the Flamin' Groovies.

The No Wave Aesthetic: Lydia Lunch - Teenage Jesus & The Jerks

I hated almost the entirety of punk rock. I don't think that No Wave had anything to do with it. Who wanted chords, all these progressions that had been used to death in rock? To this day, i still don't know a single chord on the guitar.

NYC: A Snapshot Pt. 2

In 1975, the city government avoided bankruptcy only through a federal loan and debt restructuring. By the mid-1970s the city had also gained a reputation as a crime-ridden relic of history -- Increased murder rates, assaults, gang activity, prostitution. May 1976: City University of New York forced to close, no money to pay faculty; affects 19 campuses and 250,000 students.

The Rotten Apple?

In 1977, the city was struck by the twin catastrophes of the Blackout of 1977 (25 hours of looting and civil unreast; 3,000 arrests) and the son of Sam serial killings. Ed Koch is elected mayor in 1977. By that time (mostly) white middle class families were fleeing the city, over a million by the end of the 70s.

Mercer Arts Center

In Manhattan's Soho was known as "The Lincoln Center of Off-Broadway" Housed six theatres, two acting workshops and a rock club, all of which were designed to nurture budding talent. February 11, 2013: "New York Dolls and All Their Friends" sow at The Mercer, featuring Suicide, Jonothan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Wayne County, and the New York Dolls ($5). Four bands who would make their mark on the NY underground scene and punk rock.

Punk Magazine

In October 1975, cartoonist Holmstrom joined forces with Eddie ("Legs") McNeil. They rented a storefront / workshop and put together plans for films and multimedia projects. While Legs worked on an educational film, John put together PUNK magazine, which was printed on January 1st, 1976. Hand drawn, hand lettered, very DIY.

The Rotten Apple Pt. 2

In the early 1970s, with the property plummeting property owners who tried to sell off their assets and escape the area found that much of the property in the South Bronx was unmarketable at any price. - Burglary and robbery rose to national record levels, insurance companies refused to issue new policies to South Bronx businesses and massively increased the premiums on existing policies. - Desperate landlords and business owners began burning their buildings down for the insurance premiums.

Noteworthy Pub Rock Bands

Kursaal Flyers, Ducks Deluxe, Brinsley Schwarz (w/ Nick Lowe), Killburn and the High Roads (w/ Ian Dury), 101ers (w/ Joe Strummer), Flip City (w/ Elvis Costello), Count Bishops (pub/punk), Eddie and the Hot Rods (pub/punk), DR. FEELGOOD.

Basic Skinhead Attire

Long-sleeve or short-sleeve button-up shirts or polo shirts by brands such as Ben Sherman and Fred Perry. Jeans (Levi, Lee or Wrangler) hemmed or with rolled cuffs Army surplus boots, generic work boots, or Dr. Martin boots Braces (suspenders), various colors, usually no more than 1 inch wide.

No Wave bands

Mars, DNA, Theoretical Girls, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, 8 Eyed Spy, Ut, The Contortions (punk-funk noise), Sonic youth would be the most commercially successful band associated with No Wave.

UK Music PRess

Melody Maker: started in 1925, in 2000 merged with NME. NME (New Musical Express): started in 1952, still publishing, peak years 70s/80s sold 300,000 copies / week. Sounds (1970-1991): Covered punk but became more of a heavy metal magazine in the 80s.

Mods (early to mid 1960s)

Mod has always been considered more of a lifestyle, but the wardrobe was essential. Early mods wore fashions that were more popular in Europe. Suits made from mohair and Italian knotted silk ties were standard and the clothing was often so finely tailored that outsiders were unable to recognize the subtleness. This in itself was subversive and allowed mods to flourish in the mainstream and work normal office jobs. Mods were generally not interested in the new "merseybeat" music from Liverpool but rather soul and Motown with a touch of blue beat or ska (early pre-reggae Jamaican music).

Situationist International

Modern society is a series of spectacles: frozen moments where-in it is impossible to experience real life or actively participate in the construction of the lived world. Alienation has permeated all areas of social life that people are alienated from the goods they consume, but also from their own experiences, emotions, creativity, and desires. People are spectators of their own lives.

Glam Rock (aka Glitter Rock)

More of a British than American rock subgenre. Post-hippie phenomenon, androgynous, effeminate - Ziggy stardust-era Bowie, Roxy Music, T-Rex (i.e. Marc Bolan), Mott the Hoople, Slade, Sweet. - Hook heavy pop songs with distorted guitars.

The Who: "My Generation"

No band brought more chaos, aggression and pure anger than The who. And, in punk terms, no British band was more influential. "My Generation" released in 1965. "I hope I die before I get old" Auto-Destruction (AKA smashing gear) Pop-art, mod culture (a precursor to punk), lots of volume.

CBGB Pt. 2

On March 31st, 1974, Television began a Sunday night residency at the club and became the first band to bring "punk rock" to CBGB -- even though no one was calling it that time. At the third Television gig on April 14, 1974, Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith Group were in the audience; that band went on to make it's own CBGB debut on Feb. 14th 1975

Max's Kansas City

Opened December 1965 it was a hangout for artists and sculptors of the New York School like Robert Rauschenberg and Larry Rivers. Max's was a favorite hangout of Andy Warhol's entourage. The Velvet Underground played their last shows with Lou Reed at Max's in the summer of 1970. It was a home base for the short-lived "Glam Rock" scene that included Marc Bolan (T. Rex), Bowie, Iggy Pop and, Lou Reed. Max's closed in December, 1974 but then reopened in 1975 as a punk rock club featuring The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers, Blondie, The Ramones, The Cramps, Mink Deville, the Misfits, The Dictators, and Patti Smith as well as out-of-town bands such as The Runaways, and The Damned.

Nuggets

Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era (1965 - 1968) Released by Elektra Records in 1972 First compilation of garage rock singles (27 tracks over 2 LPs) First collection of its kind to take garage rock seriously as an expression of youth culture. Gave many of these obscure bands (and songs) much wider recognition Would be a touchstone for many of the early US and UK punk bands - some of whom covered songs from this collection.

CBGB Pt. 3

Other early performers included The Stillettoes (featuring Blondie frontwoman Deborah Harry), who supported TElevision on May 5th, 1974. The newly-formed Blondie and the Ramones both arrived in August 1974. The Dictators, Mink DeVille, Talking Heads, the Shirts, the Fleshtones and many other bands followed in quick succession. - CBGB had only one rule for booking bands: They had to perform original music. No cover bands were booked to play there. CBGB closed in 2006 unable to afford rent in the now upscale Bowery.

Ramones Albums

Ramones Leave Home - 77 Rocket To Russia - 77 Road to Ruin - 78

Other Magazines

Rock Press (John Rockwell), Village Voice, Trouser Press, New York Rocker, Creem, The Rolling Stone

"New York, New York" - The Dictators

Safely someone's smiling / The fat man waits his turn / Soon he'll count his money / As The South Bronx slowly burns"

Malcom McLaren (1946 - 2010)

Sex Pistols manager. Along with Partner Vivienne Westwood sold clothes at King's Road boutique Let it Rock, later called Sex. A jack-of-all-trades he was involved in music, fashion, television, and a documentary film. A cultural gadfly. Johnny Lyndon still sort of hates him, but said nice things about him when he died.

No Wave

Short-lived New York Punk (and post-punk) scene, "no wave" bands were united by a shared determination to break (almost) all musical links with the past Dissonant, noisy, often tuneless "no wave" used the tools of rock in an attempt to destroy it.

Even more Seymour Stein

Stein even went furthur afield to sign Australian punk bands the Saints and Radio Birdman. - Under Stein, Sire helped revive the notion of tuneful, Sixties-style pop singles with synth-pop classics like M's "Pop Muzik," Plastic Bertrand's "Ca Plane Pour Moi" and Soft Cell's "Tainted Love"

More Seymour Stein

Steins taste in music always seemed a couple years ahead of everybody else. While most commercially-minded execs hated David Byrne's nervous, yelping vocal and offbeat art-pop songs, STein was riveted and signed Talking Heads He also signed the Pretenders, the Cure, and the Smiths, the Flamin' Groovies, the Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voivoids, and the Replacements. From Britain he signed the Undertones, the REzillos, the Cult, Aztec Camera, Echo and the Bunnymen and Modern English.

Dr. Feelgood & Stiff Records

Stiff records began as an independent record label in London 1976 by entrepreneurs Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera (Andrew Jakeman) - Riviera got the start-up cash (400 pounds) from Dr. Feelgood, whom he briefly managed. Established in the early days of punk, Stiff signed pub rock acts and re-marketed them as punk and/or new wave. - Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, Elvis Costello, and Ian Dury.

Stiff & Punk Rock

Stiff releases the first British punk rock single "New Rose" by the Damned (produced by Nick Lowe) October 22, 1976.

Teddy Boy Dress

Teddy Boy clothing was designed to shock their parent's generation. It consisted of an Edwardian style drape jacket (too 'camp' for a working class man) Suede shoes with thick crepe soles Narrow 'drainpipe' trousers, a smart shirt and a loud tie - usually of the 'Slim Jim' or bootlace type (string tie). Hair combed into a DA (duck's ass)

The No Wave Aesthetic: Jon Savage

Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, and their comrade bands Mars, Contortions, and DNA, defined radicalism not as a return to roots but as deracination. Curiously, the No Wave groups staged their revolt against rock tradition by using the standard rock format of guitars, bass, and drums. It was as if they felt the easy electronic route to post-rock noise was too easy. Instead, they used rock's tools against itself. Which is why No Wave music irresistibly invites metaphors of dismemberment, desecration, defiling rock's corpose

Brittish Invasion aggressive bands (blues / R&B based)

The Kinks, Yardbirds, Animals, Pretty Things

Situationist

The Situationist International (founded in Paris in 1957) was an organization of international political / cultural revolutionaries. - In its 15 years of existence (disbanding in 1972) the SI was defined by a Marxist and surrealist perspective on culture and politics, without separation between the two: art and politics are linked and defined in revolutionary terms. - The SI analyzed the modern world from the point of view of everyday life and an attack on the capitalist degradation of the life of people. - McLaren (and Reid) loved this

More about mods

The accepted method of mod transportation was the motor scooter as it was (and still is) a practical and affordable way to get around London, which was the Mod Mecca. Scooter transportation helped mods get around with "speed" being provided chemically by "Purple Hearts" and "French Blues"

"The Bronx is Burning"

The phrase was uttered by sportscaster Howard Cosell during a Yankees World Series telecast in 1977. - refers to the arson epidemic caused by the total economic collapse of the South Bronx during the 1970s. - During the game, as ABC switched to a generic helicopter shot of the exterior of Yankee Stadium, an uncontrolled fire could clearly be seen burning in the ravaged south Bronx Surrounding the park.

Pub Rock Pt. 3

The whole premise of Pub Rock was to inject a "good-time" atmosphere into a rock music scene that was taking itself far too seriously.

Pub Rock pt. 2

Usually traced back to the "Tally Ho," a former jazz pub where Eggs Over Easy (an American band) started playing in may 1971, and were soon joined by Bees Make Honey, Brinsley Schwarz, and Ducks Deluxe. Two London pubs became centers of pub rock: The Nashville / Hope & Anchor

Importants of Nuggets according to Rock historian Greg Shaw

When I visited England in 1975 and met many of the people who later turned up in groups such as the clash, the Pretenders, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, Nuggets was the album they played at home and at their parties while the idea of starting their own bands was taking shape".

Mark Perry

a bank cleark who decided to publish a xeroxed fanzine (Sniffin Glue) It became so successful, he never went back to the bank.

Andy Beckett

a political columnist for the Guardian. "The seventies were grim. The seventies were the hangover from the sixties. The seventies were violent. the seventies were a dead end. Above all: we don't want to go back to the seventies."

Vivienne Westwood

born 1941. Designed much of British punk rock couture. She outfitted the Pistols even though most kids couldn't afford her clothes. She's currently an internationally celebrated designer. British designer of the year in 1990, 91, 2006. 2004: Victoria and Albert Museum in London open a major retrospective of her work.

John Peel (1939 - 2004)

born John Ravenscroft. Arguably the World's greatest DJ. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock, reggae, and punk on British radio, and is widely acknowledge for promoting artists in various styles of alternative music including post-punk, dance, grindcore, and afropop. Without Peel, a lot of British punk goes unheard.

bullocks

can either mean bull$#!+ or balls. Quizlet doesn't allow vulgarity.

Punk as an adjective

date: 1896 1: Very poor: inferior, played a punk game. 2: being in poor health said that she was feeling punk. 3 a: of or relating to punk rock 3 b: relating to or being a style inspired by punk rock.

punk rock (noun)

date: 1971: rock music marked by extreme and often deliberately offensive expression of alienation and social discontent.

No Wave in Film

filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch, Richard Kern, and Scott and Beth B. used cheap 8mm cameras to create dark, unsettling, distrubing, short films.

MC5

from Detroit Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith (Married Patti Smith), Michael Davis, Dennis Thompson Affiliated with the White Panther Party Rock and radical politics Managed by John Sinclair. Performed for anti-war demonstrators at 1968 Democratic convention. "Kick Out the Jams" controversy

CBGB

opened by Hilly Kristal in 1973 and located in Manhattan's Bowery (hardly the best part of town), it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles (Country, Bluegrass, and Blues) but became ground zero for American punk and new wave bands.

Lester Bangs

reffered to Iggy Pop as a "punk" in 1970.

Garage Rock: Early Punk

roots in late 1950s (rockabilly & R&B) Early surf (guitar instrumental) music (Dick Dale) Explosion post-British Invasion (1964 - 1968) Reflected America's increasing subrubanization and growing middle class. Kids barely able to play their instruments ; attitude not aptitude. Neighborhood "rock star" playing at school dances, American Legion Halls, state fairs. Singles driven; bands appear and disappear.

Dave Marsh

the first rock critic to employ the term punk rock: in the may 1971 issue of Creem, he described? And the Mysterians, one of the most popular 1960s garage rock acts, as giving a "landmark exposition of punk rock"