Re: Facts and footnotes...Part 1

[GaryM <garym>]

Bruce Libby wrote:

>         was looking at "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by
> Lester Bangs the other night.  In the first essay of the book, a reprint
> of a CREEM article in 1971, he uses the word "punk" to describe that
> type of music/musician.  Most likely, the origin of the word punk came
> about by several people independently (when was Nuggets released? 71' or> later. 

Nuggets came out in '72, the beginning of my senior year of high school,
but punk as used as a term for garage music in the rock press for some
time. Sounds like something Lester would come up with, but there were
alot of other wild guys back then, including Mark Shipper, who actually
put up the bucks in '73 to put out the 1st ever Sonics compilation on
his own BuckShot label, & my buddy Metal Mike Saunders, who wrote for
Shipper's punk based fanzine )can't remember the name) & helped compile
the 1st ever Punk Rock Top Ten, which I played on my 1st ever radio
DJ'ing slot (my parents were pissed off that I dedicated the #1 song,
Try It by the Standells, to my girlfriend)

> On another note, did anyone catch ? and the Mysterians in NYC- would
> have loved to have been there, but I have a feeling they won't be coming
> to Richmond

Seeing 'em tonight at The Dragonfly in Hollywood! I finally get to see
my other huge keyboard influence, Frank Rodriguez (met my main
influence, Augie Meyers, about 10 years ago at a concert by the
re-formed Sir Douglas Quintet!)

best,
GaryM