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

[Mitch Gart <mg>]

Steve Jackson wrote:
> 
> 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....
> ...
> 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

The punks were rebelling against someone or something
but what was the target of their anger?  I think you've got it about
right above, it was the junk AOR (album-oriented rock) stadium acts
that were really soft and cute and top-40-disguised-with-long-hair-
and-guitar-solos stuff of the 70's.  Really corporate, formula, boring. 
A few punks might have said they hated the Stones or the Dead too ...

The other thing was radio.  Patti has talked about that more than
almost anyone.  Radio that went from a medium where at least a few
stations were free-form and creative to a medium where everything was
controlled with lists designed to capture a market niche.  

I remember the one time I saw Johnny Thunders and he was yelling at us
(the audience) calling us a bunch of fucking lazy hippies that never 
change but I can't help thinking that the punks and hippies had more
in common than just ripped jeans.  

"radio is in the hands of such a bunch of fools trying to 
anaesthetize the way that we feel"

"hey ho let's go"

- Mitch