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Blokman s my dad !
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If anyone's into punk and rock bands please comment 
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Callunna
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Posted - 21/10/2007 : 19:08
Well, obviously I'm giving away my age here, but I was an art student in Manchester in 1976 and therefore got to see all the punk bands as they emerged. I remember thinking what a load of rubbish the Sex Pistols were.I also remember running across the town hall square dressed only in a black bin liner, singing "I Am An Anti-Christ" which sounds pathetic now but at the time that's what an 18 year old was expected to do. |
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Posted - 21/10/2007 : 19:51
Off topic but Calluna's post brought a smile.
I remember sometime ago when it was raining. A Safety Officer who worked for us cut a hole in a plastic bin liner. He pulled it over his head and then ran across the road trying to keep dry. Only problem was he didn't notice the kerd , fell headlong and broke both arms. Now that was some Incident Report
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Doreen
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Posted - 21/10/2007 : 21:57
Im afraid the punk fad didnt include me, not then or now, in 1976 when the sex pistols were shouting things on stage, and a load of kids were sniffing glue because that was the fashion,i was 21 had a baby got married to a man with 4 kids, i didnt have time to even know what was on the hit parade.
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DADGAD
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Posted - 22/10/2007 : 08:49
I was at College in Salford in 1977 & went to a concert to see what all the fuss was about, If I remember right the main band was "Slaughter and the Dogs". The "music" was abyssmal & I just didn't see any fun in spitting on each other. I stuck to my prog rock references and have never regretted it although my tastes have since expanded to include blues, metal, trad & contemporary folk. In Nov I will be going to see Show of Hands one night & the Quo the following night - long live variety.
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Doreen
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Posted - 22/10/2007 : 09:25
Callunna , what were you wearing a bin liner for?
Dordygail
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Callunna
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Posted - 22/10/2007 : 10:01
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what were you wearing a bin liner for?
To preserve what little modesty I had at the time  . Seriously, it was just one of those daft things that punks wore, like safety pins and spiky purple hair. Dadgad - Slaughter & the Dogs! Yes! A college mate's friend was in that band. Like you I never got into the spitting and absolutely awful standard of music, but The Clash were good and I had (still have) most of Patti Smith's albums. However, I don't remember a lot about those days - I was enjoying myself too much! BTW, I saw Show of Hands a while back - truly excellent. But I mustn't do my usual and go off topic - this one's about punk and rock. Tell us what you think about it, Offspring of Blokman. |
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Posted - 22/10/2007 : 13:00
Now I am just going to pick your brains as you are from this era...one of my favourite songs at the time was one that was banned as they thought it had subliminal messages in it...or was it the main message that the powers that be didn't like...all i can remember of it now was that it started very quietly and strangely and in the chorus were the words "They're American planes" and it was about some bombing or another (Not Enola Gay, that was a different song) does anyone else remember this and can they shed some light on it for me? Who sang it, and why was it banned?
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 12:33
Would that have been Oh Superman by Laurie Anderson?
Big Kev
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Another
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 13:33
Tinker there was one in the late 60's Countyr Joe and the Fish - The Bomb Song. Nolic
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Callunna
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 14:39
And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me I don't give a damn
'Bout the war in Vietnam
And it's five, six, seven
Open up the pearly gates
Well I ain't got time to wonder why
Whoopee! We're all gonna die.
Country Joe and the Fish, featured in the 1970 film about the Woodstock music festival. First saw it at the Majestic in Barlick and have remembered the words ever since. Pity I can't remember the words to my own songs...
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 15:00
It's not so much punk per se that gets me all misty eyed, it's the explosion of what I think we term new wave bands that followed in it's wake from about '79 through to '83. At the time, the New Musical Express was full of adverts for compilation cassettes you could buy from bands in almost every town in the country, rejoicing in names such as Armpit Juice and Norman St John Stevas's Nipple, to name just two. Bands in Pendle grouped together and formed NELCOL, the North East Lancs Collective and put out stuff on the Snotty Snail record label. Most famous of these were The Not Sensibles from Burnley, who enjoyed momentary fame with 'I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher' and 'I am the Bishop'. The former had a photo of Thatcher on the record sleeve flashing a V-sign. I had a copy.
I had an enormous collection of these records from all over the country, which I used to order from Slater's record shop in Barlick - bands like The Fall (with the legendary Mark E Smith, and still going strong), The Cravats, The Nightingales, Ski Patrol, The Frantic Elevators (with Mick Hucknell on vocals), The Mekons, Gang of Four, John Cooper Clarke (Salford punk-poet, still going, who refuses to play Burnley - 'or anywhere else where they still point at aeroplanes, and Kung Fu phone boxes') and so on. Plus of course Skipton's own Muggins Blight, whose 'Mr Somebody' was one of Andy Peebles' records of the week. I ended up getting them nicked in Sheffield - today, they would be worth a fortune.
That time is all set out in a great book called 'Rip it Up' (from the Orange Juice song). In those days, you could sit on the dole, have enough money for fags, beer and food, and spend your time putting out music - and it's amazing when you look at the line ups of all these bands, how many went on to great things, or became producers, or other music/art industry types. Some of course vanished without trace. That all stopped during Thatcherism - sitting on the dole and putting out music, and I'm not sure it was a good thing necessarily.
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 15:12
Looks like another thing steeplejack females have in common Meg, I booked to go & see the sex pistols in Manchester in November taking my Mum along as she likes all the punk music as well. Went to see them in Glasgow last time they toured the uk as. Also like the clash, blondie & S.L.F. Mainly old the old skool but like the occasional new punk sound.
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belle
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 17:58
Yes, Big Kev, I believe it was...what did they ban it for?
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 18:12
I have no idea........
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Callunna
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 18:19
According to Wikipedia, "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1981. No mention of it ever being banned, unless I missed something - there's rather a lot of info to read. |
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