Re: Facts and footnotes...Part 1 -Reply

[Steve Jackson <STEVEJ>]

Here's another view on what punk was rebelling against..(mid
-70's)..that corporate rock shit that was coming out...Journey,REO
Speedwagon, Foreigner, ad nauseum....
Although I essentially agree with Blackmonk on endless guitar leads
being boring..I wouldn't classify Patti's(or Lenny's) music as a
reaction against the music of Jimi Hendrix..someone Patti has said
she  idolized..maybe other punks, yeah.
Also in reference to the Dead...somewhere I've heard Lenny always
said he loved em..and we know Patti has said talked alot about the
Dead(and played with Hunter at CBGB's) since she returned.
I spose you could argue the Dead were sort of corporate..and claim
their counterculture attraction was sort of a sham...but musically
they're more related to americana than the phycedelic label they got
stuck with.
Steve Jackson
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>>Rubbish. Ever heard of an album entitled "Nuggets" compiled
>>by some guy named Lenny?
>
>        ** You bet, mr.ed. Had a lot of 60s groups on it...
>           Groups which *Were* killed (arguably) by the sludge
>           of the early-mid 70s.
>
 As Cave Boy on this list (some of you who were around for the NY
garage
bands of the mid 80s might get that, for the rest of you, I guess
it's
another clique thing. sorry) I have to argue that, the Killer is
usually
assumed to be Sgt. Pepper, but I'd  lay the blame on Hendrix and Led
Zepplin. Once the fashion became to get groovy feedback sounds and
play
blues licks REALLY FAST during a guitar solo, playing the melody to
Bad To
Me through a cheap fuzzbox didn't seem cool anymore. Sort of ironic
since
Zepplin grew out of the Yardbirds, who were Garage Gods.






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