tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post3336505624790716025..comments2024-03-11T14:14:58.812-04:00Comments on TheHoundBlog: Inventing Punk Rock, part 1 of 5,235The Houndhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-13418754811984398602011-10-11T15:22:07.546-04:002011-10-11T15:22:07.546-04:00This can't actually work, I suppose like this....This can't actually work, I suppose like this.www.murcia-3d.comhttp://www.murcia-3d.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-66201421800090343952011-09-17T04:02:36.864-04:002011-09-17T04:02:36.864-04:00Quite helpful piece of writing, thank you for this...Quite helpful piece of writing, thank you for this article.contactos valenciahttp://www.encontactos.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-81150481654171693902010-04-12T19:27:18.085-04:002010-04-12T19:27:18.085-04:00Jim
Really enjoying your posts of late!
NoSeNo had...Jim<br />Really enjoying your posts of late!<br />NoSeNo had an incredible jukebox..that would make a great CD collection. I am still haunted by a ballad sung by a girl group or vocalist that I heard that night, will probably remain unidentified.<br />Did want to share some scrapbook art.<br />http://www.thedroogs.com/NoSeNo.jpgRoger Clayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07765883464200894320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-52092367574853829532010-04-03T14:30:09.551-04:002010-04-03T14:30:09.551-04:00The lady above is correct; please consider publica...The lady above is correct; please consider publication of your work JM. Simply fantastic post!Brendanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09107748287839399880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-57900870665120764712010-04-01T06:14:04.965-04:002010-04-01T06:14:04.965-04:00" the B-side of the Back Door Man 45 is "..." the B-side of the Back Door Man 45 is "I'm Waiting For The Man" not "Midnite Dog"<br /><br />Dough! My bonehead error, I'm gonna go back and correct it now, thanks for pointing it out.<br /><br />" Ric Albin of the Droogs....He has vivid memories of that show at No Se No and recalls that the gig was taped on a video camera set-up that wasn't running video -- just audio Maybe that'll help you locate it."<br /><br />That tells me exactly who taped it! I forgot about that, he figured out you can use a VHS tape and when recording just audio it used the whole tape and sounded great. Oddly enough, that person-- "Jack Boy" Smead can be heard on Pebbles Vol. 9, he was in<br />the Banshees who cut Project Blue for Dunwich in '66 (I wrote the Banshees story in Kicks #3). I hope I can figure out how to transfer it to a format I can listen to now....I don't even have a VHS player anymore.The Houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-76798495876021688232010-03-31T16:11:51.236-04:002010-03-31T16:11:51.236-04:00Thanks for the kind and perceptive words re: the I...Thanks for the kind and perceptive words re: the Imperial Dogs. One small note: the B-side of the Back Door Man 45 is "I'm Waiting For The Man" not "Midnite Dog." Legal issues prevented us from putting the former on the website -- and the note about how every ballad should have a rockin' B-side, explaining the presence of the "Midnite Dog" clip in relation to the clip of "This Ain't The Summer Of Love" obviously created this confusion.<br /><br />FWIW, I told Ric Albin of the Droogs about your post and he was knocked sideways. He has vivid memories of that show at No Se No and recalls that the gig was taped on a video camera set-up that wasn't running video -- just audio Maybe that'll help you locate it.The Imperial Dogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00099884745397481423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-86188748257387550142010-03-31T10:11:30.781-04:002010-03-31T10:11:30.781-04:00"Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), French writer, poe..."Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), French writer, poet, playwright dyed his hair green."<br /><br />and of course there was Baudelaire and Rimbaud before that, I guess the young Octavius (later Augustus) Caesar was a bit of a punk as a teen. I picked Pinky simply because he's a pop culture figure and not a product of the art world. And he was a teenager. Oddly enough Jarry fits into the posting perfectly since one faction of Rocket From The Tombs morphed into Pere Ubu (David Thomas and Peter Laughner, the later left after their 2nd 45) whose name came from Jarry's Ubu Roi. BTW, Oscar Wilde's final words were "Either that wall paper goes, or I do", the hotel where he died in Paris, today called L'Hotel (on Rue Des Beaux Artes off Rue Bonaparte) is still in business, we stayed there a few years back (the only nice rooms are #60 and #62 the rest of tiny).The Houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-42069731087993932652010-03-30T14:22:55.490-04:002010-03-30T14:22:55.490-04:00"I always thought the first character in popu..."I always thought the first character in popular culture that we can identify as a punk icon is Pinky in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock (1936)"<br /><br />Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), French writer, poet, playwright dyed his hair green. At the end of his life, he was living in a shack by a river, drinking absinth all day. As he was about to die, he asked for a toothpick. His all life and works were devoted to being free from respectability.Mitchhznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-72806422262530982892010-03-30T13:11:47.208-04:002010-03-30T13:11:47.208-04:00And glad to see the Droogs aren't forgotten!
P...And glad to see the Droogs aren't forgotten!<br />PJLJumpynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-87230529147516999202010-03-30T13:10:59.774-04:002010-03-30T13:10:59.774-04:00Don't worry too much about where to draw the l...Don't worry too much about where to draw the line. <br />Kids should have listening to all that stuff (Flamin' Groovies) but somehow didn't. <br />Where it all changed was with the Ramones. Sure, the Dictators and Patti Smith preceeded them, but the Ramones' sound was markedly different.<br />PJLJumpynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-91726611911283728412010-03-30T07:49:50.243-04:002010-03-30T07:49:50.243-04:00there's a great imperial dogs interview/articl...there's a great imperial dogs interview/article in the newest issue of UGLY THINGS...Kogar the Swinging Apehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01354132623772058274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-69089621534394472542010-03-30T03:37:13.353-04:002010-03-30T03:37:13.353-04:00"I gave Nitebob a DVD I made of The Stooges a..."I gave Nitebob a DVD I made of The Stooges at the Rock and Roll hall of fame to give you."<br /><br />Thanks.....The Houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-4448561850853514502010-03-29T22:14:10.640-04:002010-03-29T22:14:10.640-04:00I gave Nitebob a DVD I made of The Stooges at the ...I gave Nitebob a DVD I made of The Stooges at the Rock and Roll hall of fame to give you. <br /><br />Thanks,<br />ReV RuSSeLLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-48452883104195533362010-03-29T17:13:00.283-04:002010-03-29T17:13:00.283-04:00"the Gun Club, that's not fair! "
O..."the Gun Club, that's not fair! "<br /><br />Okay, let's change it to I Can't Come by the Sniveling Shits......see of that works for you.The Houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-32282481644085010192010-03-29T16:44:25.358-04:002010-03-29T16:44:25.358-04:00Yeah but the Gun Club, that's not fair! The re...Yeah but the Gun Club, that's not fair! The reference to the 50s, to rockabilly and blues, is obvious with the Gun Club. You might as well have picked the Cramps.Mitchhznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-50526375633862540522010-03-29T10:51:57.058-04:002010-03-29T10:51:57.058-04:00"Try any combination like this: listen to &qu..."Try any combination like this: listen to "Save It" by Mel Robbins followed by "Get Out of My Life" by Little Willie and the Adolescents followed by "Cyclotron" by The Electric Eels... I think it works!"<br /><br /><br /><br />How about this one:<br />Rumble Rock by Kip Tyler & the Flips followed by<br />Ritual by the Mods followed by<br />FIre Of Love by the Gun Club?The Houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-71397652447745289752010-03-28T21:04:56.863-04:002010-03-28T21:04:56.863-04:00I read the letter to Miriam; I guess maybe I "...I read the letter to Miriam; I guess maybe I "get" Bangs, but am just not that into it. At its best, it reminds me of maybe Charles Olson's Letters to Origin, where he basically maps out how to be a not-dead writer-reader in a hundred or so pages. But Olson opens up in a way that's beyond just his personal stance; it's like Kerouac or Burroughs at their best (like in Visions of Cody), where you realize, 'oh, there's a whole different way of doing things.' I never get that jolt from Lester B. I'm hoping eventually I will.<br /><br />I'm not that young (34), but I came of age after Bangs' time, so the rage is a little more indirect from this distance, the objects more blurred for me. From my point of view, *of course* RS and all those shitty rags are shit, etc. If I lived or was half-way sentient at the points of Bangs' attack and rapture, I'm sure it'd feel closer, more necessary.<br /><br />Maybe I'll get it at some point. I can read Metal Mike Saunders all day and all night, but Bangs just seems smallish. But I mostly come to music writing for the quality of writing, and not for the investment into the music, or such. Well, maybe not, I dig finding out about acts I didn't know about via Unsung Heroes or from theHoundBlog, but it's also the written sensibility that I tap into, and an aesthetic investment that almost feels ethical in its intensity; I know people that I respect (like Joe B) get this from LB.TThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-17796683108388912812010-03-28T20:37:45.799-04:002010-03-28T20:37:45.799-04:00"But who were the precursors to the 60s punk ..."But who were the precursors to the 60s punk bands? 50s rockabilly singers of course!"<br /><br />I always thought the first character in popular culture that we can identify as a punk icon is Pinky in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock (1936), Richard Attenborough played him in the movie....in fact when I met Johnny Rotten (had dinner with him once, thanks Howard), he agreed w/me on that.The Houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-41516214207544377142010-03-28T17:35:31.831-04:002010-03-28T17:35:31.831-04:00Precursors to the punk explosion? 60s garage punk ...Precursors to the punk explosion? 60s garage punk bands would be an obvious answer.<br /><br />But who were the precursors to the 60s punk bands? 50s rockabilly singers of course!<br /><br />Try any combination like this: listen to "Save It" by Mel Robbins followed by "Get Out of My Life" by Little Willie and the Adolescents followed by "Cyclotron" by The Electric Eels... I think it works!Mitchhznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-89284640302054720082010-03-28T15:19:44.350-04:002010-03-28T15:19:44.350-04:00"The fellow shown in the "I Sell Soul&qu..."The fellow shown in the "I Sell Soul" video is Richard Lloyd."<br /><br />I'll make the correction, thanks for pointing it out, jeez but people can physically change over the years....The Houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-64844380797709023432010-03-28T15:12:41.479-04:002010-03-28T15:12:41.479-04:00The fellow shown in the "I Sell Soul" vi...The fellow shown in the "I Sell Soul" video is Richard Lloyd. The "Romeo and Juliet" video features bassist Craig Bell, who now sports the same glasses as the guy in REM.Serena WmS. Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07202549972236588648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-1777064168704152442010-03-28T15:01:06.408-04:002010-03-28T15:01:06.408-04:00It's about time you wrote a book!It's about time you wrote a book!Donna Lethalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00581340436152988440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-35231994437067131662010-03-28T14:25:56.220-04:002010-03-28T14:25:56.220-04:00"I don't really get Lester Bangs either&q..."I don't really get Lester Bangs either"<br /><br />Try reading this letter written to Miriam Linna:<br /><br />http://kicksville66.blogspot.com/2010/02/lester-bangs-was-friend-of-mine.html<br /><br />I think it's one of the best things Lester ever wrote...maybe you'll get it?The Houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328225246284521960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-89719618530675802372010-03-28T14:24:51.603-04:002010-03-28T14:24:51.603-04:00Bangs is weather. If you don't like it you go...Bangs is weather. If you don't like it you gotta leave. It's a taste thing, I guess. He seems a separate beast to Kent and Tosches—Lester's emotional involvement in his subjects was palpable.Joe Bonomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17743930286048945869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226924615283203864.post-9818359244972367852010-03-28T13:16:39.741-04:002010-03-28T13:16:39.741-04:00Glad to have a reason to give Nick Kent a second r...Glad to have a reason to give Nick Kent a second read. I picked up The Dark Stuff awhile back, and thought it was pretty awful. I think the topper was the Johnny Cash piece, which was like a poorly written paraphrase of a much superior piece done by Nicholas Dawidoff in In the Country of Country. <br /><br />Kent's Cash piece, btw, has the (accidentally) immortal sentence: "In 1967, he drove two separate cars off the high cliff at his Tennessee home and crashed them both into the sea."<br /><br />I can't stop reading that sentence, it's like an entire train wreck in condensed form. <br /><br />I don't really get Lester Bangs either, so maybe it's a stylistic thing. I pick up Kent or Bangs, and after a page or two, I'm scurrying like crazy trying to find any Nick Tosches book, just to see the mojo done with actual style.<br /><br />Maybe he's a writer who is more interesting to read about than to read? That'd be like Bangs for me . . .TThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com