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From: sean@garfield.UUCP (Sean Byrne)
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Subject: Well, it sort of got better....
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Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 00:23:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 12 00:23:31 1984
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Well, I am happy to see that the discussion of punk has drawn lots
of interested views, and it has acheived its purpose.  (Thanks to
Wombat for giving it a listen, even if he doesn't like it.)

But, I've a few more things to say about punk and the recent goings
on in this here newsgroup.

First of all, a few replys.  Tim, I didn't include the Jam in my
discussion of punk, becase they are mod, if anything not punk.
(I hate throwing groups into one classification or another.)
Rich, what's dis garbage that punk `originated` in America?  Can
you name some early American punk bands that heavily influenced any
future bands.  There is quite a difference between what is
known as American Punk and what is known as British Punk.  British
seems (to me anyway) to have more raw emotion and feeling behind
it.  American punk seems just to have evolved from what was rock
back in the early-late 70's.  It seems that the americans just
changed what they had to sound like the British, not the other way
around.  I'm not putting down Americans, there are some good bands
(ie. the DK's, Fear, Husker Du, etc).  It's just that I like British
bettter.  (the Clash, SLF, the Business, etc)

Somebody suggested that, in order to discuss punk, one must look at
the enviroment from which it came.  Punk is very stress-filled music
and a lot of it does say "hey, this sucks", a lot more of it really
has something to say.  Punk tends to thrive in stress-filled environs,
like San Francisco, Toronto, London, and big cities around the world.
Most punks, who's backgroups I know usually come from middle-class to
upper middle-class.  Not the poor, as is what is generally accepted
as from where punk stems.

Okay, now that that's out of the way, it's about time the Who broke
up.  They were getting stale anyway.

Favorite guitarists?  I don't and (hopefully) will never have a favorite
guitarist.  Sure, I look at some guys style, and say, yah, that's good,
and there are a lot of really good guitarist out there.  But I look
more at the group he plays with, coz without other people, it's not that
great.  Imagine listening to 2 hours of somebody playing lead!  Wouldn't
that be entertaining.

Canadian Bands?  You have sadly left out DOA in your discussion.

Anyway, that's enough for now.

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