70s crap

[jroca at gallonlaw.com]

Richard Romeo sez:


Punk was a welcome reaction to disillusion and rock's self-absorption,
etc but songs like "Working for the Clampdown" or "Dancin Barefoot", hell
even "Because the Night"  still resonate--not sure Horses does anymore.
Punk also had some really horrid consequences for music qua music:  lousy
musicians. (please don't say that was the point.)
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Well, we already had our legacy of bad musicians from the early 
sixties-late seventies, but more to the point, I always felt that punk was 
a legitimate reaction to the overproduction of early seventies music--the 
effort to make rock safe and tidy and "musician-like"--the British punks 
had no clue how to play.  All that counted was the energy and the 
rebellion, which makes it all the more remarkable that that music/noise 
still kicks me in the ass way (in a good way).

Tribe