[kj] punk

[Stephen Robinson]

>

> I can't believe this is still going.

>

> Rob Moss re-invoked it as a jest, .... and it's predictably taken off

> again.

>

> Listen, ask one of your justifiably-revered stalwarts of British punk

> -- Strummer, Vanian, Simonon, Jones, etc. etc. pick one -- and

> invariably *BY THEIR OWN ADMISSION* they'll say that the Yanks started

> it. YES, the Brits *TOOK IT SOMEWHERE ELSE AND MADE IT THEIR

> OWN*, ..... but it started in the States.

>

> I'm not making it up.

>


The first use of the word punk in the modern sense on a record was on  
Peter Hammill's 1975 album Nadir's Big Chance, incidently the album John  
Lydon picked tracks from for that famous radio interview.

Thus proving that punk was nothing but a minor offshoot of Prog rock. But  
then, we all knew that anyway.







I'm trollin'.