[kj] your first "punk" gig.....4th Reich

[iPat]

Probably the Adicts, but there were a succession of bands playing at a club 
called Tracey's in Ipswich. 
i dont recall which was the first reknown band. I definately recall 
Penetration, The Clash several times, Lurkers, 999, Sham, Siouxsie, the 
cure, Stranglers. but many gigs were small town ones with local bands or 
bands that would later reform as some other entity.
 My first exposure to crass was in 78 and that just blew me away.
79 through to 81 saw a lot of bands come out that i would probably be more 
inclined to listen to now still

 On 6/30/05, Antoni Adamiak <pssyche23 at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>  
> When I finally got to see Manfactured Romance at the Hammersith Clarendon 
> in 1982, they were nothing like I expected. They were a pop/new wave sound. 
> If any band members had been skinheads they had grown their hair by then (a 
> bit like Black Flag). I'd previously seen "4th Reich" graffiti around West 
> London, especially buses and bus stop shelters, in equal measures to that of 
> Adam & The Antz and Crass. Didn't know anything about them but did see a 
> small article in Sounds which probably coincided with the release of the 
> wonderful "Time Of Your Life" single. 
> 

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fundamentally similar? And if they are fundamentally similar, then your 
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another, endlessly. There is no noble or better conditioning, and it is this 
desire that has to be understood.
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