[kj] Clip of US punk documentary from 1977

[gingoblin at easynet.co.uk]

At 22:49 17/02/2007 -0600, you wrote:



>I personally like pre-1980 (1st 3 LPs -- even Music for Pleasure) Damned

>but think it's all downhill after 1980. Sorry, guys.

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>-Oliver FROM TEXAS



You mean you don't recognise the absolute genius of the Friday 13th 
EP???   Limit Club? Disco Man?!!  The next album Strawberries ain't to 
everyone's taste, but I love it!  The Black Album was kinda like their dark 
psychedelia, Strawberries was the bright in many ways.




>1) One was that you are not allowed to wear your own band's shirt on

>stage, unless you are The Ramones. I guess Motorhead gets a pass on

>this. But I saw The Damned once playing wear t-shirts of their own band

>it just looked dumb.


You can add the Clash and Pistols into that list too!   And don't forget, 
the  Damned reason for wearing their own shirts was likely "this t-shirt 
I'm wearing is fucked... where can I get another one... oh, there's that 
box in the back of the transit van, that'll do...".

And being a damn pedantic, I must point out Mr Algy Ward played all the 
bass on the Machine Gun Etiquette album. Lemmy played some bass on Ballroom 
Blitz, the I Just Can't Be Happy Today b-side. Though I don't think he can 
really remember much about it!

That's very weird about the Damned being seen as "sell-outs" after they 
returned in '79. Never heard that one before, and it always seemed to me 
they were one of the long-running faves amongst all sorts of "punks". 
During 81/82 when the Exploited sorta stuff came along they were still a 
huge favourite in this neck o' the woods.  Grimly Fiendish, on the other 
hand, well...
I do remember getting History Of The World Part 1 and commenting to a 
friend "it's not all that punk though" to which he replied "oh I've heard 
part two is MUCH better". Aye, fucking right!

Ha ha Oliver, I can imagine much confusion at hearing DDD/Phantasmagoria 
side by side!  "It doesn't even LOOK like the same band".
All this Damned-talk reminds me a saw the Brian James Gang a couple of 
weeks ago... really enjoyed it all in all. Dave Treganna on the bass, doing 
a mix of new stuff, Lords stuff and DDD classics. Dismal turn-out though.

Dave in Edinburgh (currently listening to Inside Extremities!)