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| From | Mike Vancha <mikevancha@sk.sympatico.ca> |
| Subject | Re: Punk Rock...alive and well |
| Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:32:50 +0000 |
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> From: bob <segarini@sympatico.ca>
> Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:40:30 -0400
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Punk Rock....good riddance not RIP !!!
>
> Shit is shit, whether it's loud and fast or slow and soft...
> The "legitamate" acts you mentioned made music...not political statements.
> Give me Owner Of A Lonely Heart, Dust In The Wind and the like over Anarchy
> In The UK and Should I stay Or Should I Go anytime...
>
Hey Bob, I gotta agree with you. There's only good or bad music but I like
the Sex Pistols ,the Clash AND Yes, as well as standards, jazz, classical,
all kinds of pop and rock, you name it.
Give me some songs with melody, some feeling, and some spirited, half
descent performances and I'm sold. I don't really care whether it's loud or
soft,fast or slow, distorted or clean, and so on. It's all more similar than
it is different with only 12 notes and the same basic patterns.
Mike V.
p.s. Maybe not the original punk but the new wave of punk is very much alive
and thriving in the underground. There's at least 50 times more bands than
there ever was and it's only growing in popularity among young boys and
girls.
> bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 10:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Punk Rock....good riddance not RIP !!!
>
>
>> Punk rock put music into the dark ages.Morons everywhere thought
>>> that they could sing and create bands.It had the effect of dumbing
>>> down music. Legitimate artists were slagged of in the press by
>>> ignorant bastards like Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols.
>> With the punk explosion, crime went up because people were copying the
>> anarchistic views of a few assholes like Rotten and Joe Strummer.
>>
>>
>> Darn those rotten punk rockers. If it were not for them and their ilk, we
>> would still be listening to such "intelligent " and "legitimate" rock
> acts,
>> such as Kansas, ELP, Toto, Journey, Yes, etc.
>>
>> Seriously, John "Rotten" Lydon is a bit of an asshole and the latest tour
> is
>> a farce, but every so often I just love to blast "Pretty Vacant" or
>> "Holidays In The Sun". It still gives me a thrill. In addition, for a
>> group that released only 1 album and were together only for about a year
> or
>> 2 (someone will probably confirm the actual time they were together), you
>> would be hard pressed to find a group or album that has had such a lasting
>> effect on indie rock, the DIY movement, etc, etc.
>>
>> ...and to call Joe Strummer an asshole??? Talk about fightin' words!
>>
>> So to Dave, I leave you with the words of Polly Styrene....Oh Bondage, Up
>> Yours!
>>
>> Graciously,
>> Mark Eichelberger
>>
>>
>
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