70s Saving Graces

[Margaret G. Larson]

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, jroca at gallonlaw.com wrote:

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> Tom Stanton sez:
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> What!? No mention of the Sugar Hill Gang? How about Fab Freddy & the 
> Furious Five?
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> Actually that is Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five who did the incandescent "The Message."
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>  What of Glam-rock? 
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> Well, other than T. Rex, Bowie...there wasn't much to glam rock to remember, was there?
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The NY Dolls, w/ the aforementioned D Johannsen?
> Joan Jett?
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> Joan Jett only when she was with that all-female proto-punk band whose name I forget.  Her solo career was hardly memorable though.
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The Runaways, with Jett, Cherie Currie, Lita Ford and I forget who else.  
Saw them opening for Rush here in Saginaw a godamn'd long time ago; they 
sucked but the guys all loved 'em . . .

Meg