[kj] Clip of US punk documentary from 1977

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Ah, the delights of YouTube!

This YouTube clip is interesting: It's a clip of a U.S. documentary from 
1977 about how punk is a new, scary, anti-social phenomenon. The band 
they choose to profile is The Damned. Despite how, uh, "gay" (ugh -- why 
that word?) you may think The Damned are now, believe it or not, 
mainstream America once thought punk was a pretty weird, antisocial 
alien threat. (I know folks on this list are old enough, thank the 
Flying Spaghetti Monster, to dismiss such rubbish, but, hell, it was 
true that folks really thought it was like a psychopathic craze early 
on!)  And The Damned in the late 80s are one of the 1st punk bands I got 
into, back when I was a teen dressing in black and was called into the 
principal's (that's "headmaster" for you Brits) office (Geraldo's 
*"Satanic Panic"* era) here near Austin, Texas, for being a Satanist 
(for wearing a Pushead t-shirt of the Misfits in 1988, of all things). 
Now that I am 32 and a lot of kids like poseur bands like Avenged 
Sevenfold who have Dave Navarro-esque goatees and stuff, this kind of 
stuff below comes as a shock to them when they see it.

Anyway: Thank you YouTube for bringing this shit back up. Anyway: Why 
punk is hypocritical and dangerous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfEEQdfeqF0


I personally like pre-1980 (1st 3 LPs -- even Music for Pleasure) Damned 
but think it's all downhill after 1980. Sorry, guys.



-Oliver FROM TEXAS