[kj] The Complications opening for Killing Joke in Montreal

[GREG SLAWSON]

But ironically, Minor Threat is probably seen as more infuential/important to rock history, ethics, and practices than PiL, except for the early PiL being an influence on vaguely defined dub/"post rock" bands.
 

> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:13:20 -0600

> From: bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] The Complications opening for Killing Joke in Montreal

> 

> Right.

> 

> Killing Joke opened for Motley Crue. Times have changed.

> 

> Not that KJ were ever part of the same sort of scene spoken of in, say 

> "The Day the Country Died" (UK grassroots DIY etc., even though they did 

> that weird thing with Honey Bane, who was on Crass Rex) or in the 

> underground network that deveoped of he sort in "American Hardcore."

> 

> Still, I remember a time when a odunk, grassroots meaningless, 

> let-s-just-automatically-refer-to-them-with-contempt-and-derision-for-no-good-reason 

> type of band, Minor Threat, opened for PiL. Minor Threat were paid a 

> pizza and coca-cola. You can hear Ian macKaye recount this experience 

> bitterly in a few interviews. Lydon pulled up in a limo or something and 

> refused to even meet Minor Threat. They were a podunk grasroots local 

> band who weren't important, after all.

> 

> -Oliver

> 

> 

> GREG SLAWSON wrote:

> > I remember in the old days of punk, in places like Boston (and LA, 

> > from the posters I've seen) there would be 3, 4, 5, or even more bands 

> > at a gig, for a reasonable price, w/no real headliner or opening 

> > bands. SST records bands were famous for this. And in Boston the 

> > garage/punk/power pop bands all collaborated and did gigs together, 

> > making for a real community atmosphere. These days music is much more 

> > segmented into sub-sub-sub genres, and there is less of a community 

> > feeling.

> 

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