On 5 Mar 2013, at 00:43, Fred Heutte <[email protected]> wrote: > But they were playing at a time when many in the same circuit > (the Washington DC underground of 1977 onward) really couldn't > -- including some, like Half Japanese, who made a fetish of that. > Some got better, some didn't.
Loved Bad Brains, played their album to death back in the day, amazing live as well. > > Many of us who DJ or make tracks have drawn on the DIY punk > attitude -- itself an outgrowth of, among other things, the garage band > ethos in the 1960s in the US, of course commemorated by "Garageland" > by the Clash, a band who could really really play. They wrote Garageland because they got called a garage band in the NME for their gig supporting the Pistols at The Screen On The Green > > It's easy to overlook now the profound influence of the Ramones > on the Pistols and everyone else. And what were they doing? > Basically 1960s garage. Yeah, that first album was the blue print. m
