70s crap

[James Kyllo]

Sherwood, Harrison says

>This also conjures questions about the nature of boredom and the
>rebellion it engenders: Britain's arose out of deprivation; America's
>out of superabundance. Fair summary?

Wasn' t it more just boredom with safe, bland and self indulgent  music?  

Andrew's
>art-school dropouts and self-styled Urban Guerrillas--intellectuals, in
> other words, manifestly NOT disaffected working-class kids on the dole

is a pretty reasonable description of most involved in the British punk
scene too.  Somebody mentioned Thatcher apropos this discussion - but  the
conservatives (with associated dole culture) didn't come to power 'til
1979.    The people at the Roxy, Vortex etc (on and off the stage) were
mostly middle class and well educated.  Still at (art) school rather than
dropped out.  The ones who could afford to buy the instruments & the drugs,
and to go to the gigs.

BTW  I always thought that rebellion out of  superabundance stuff only
really applied to California scene punks.  CBGBs/No Wave artists seemed to
have more to say.


James