Posts by Simon Grigg
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From the 'you can forgive your heroes most things but there are limits' files:
Nothing posted by anyone in this thread comes close to either of these in sheeeeer awfulness.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to JacksonP,
and the thread hasn't been RickRoll'd.
I still think Barney gave us the best Rick-moves I've seen since about 1988 last month at the NO gig.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Back in those days, recording a hit song required very heavy and expensive studio equipment, and an army of middlemen.
That was part of the punk thing though wasn't it - Yes required Warner Music to survive, The Mekons required Rough Trade.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to st ephen,
I think what says it all is the bit in Westway to the World where you find out that the cool kids in the scene spent most of "That Summer" arguing about who was and wasn't punk.
I remember similar conversations in NZ around the end of 77 when punk went mainstream.
Terrorways drummer Kerry Buchanan and I were talking a few weeks back about how we were the closet Funkadelic and Chic fans - whispering to each other about how great George Clinton was. I was working part time in a record store and we'd have sessions playing the boogie 45s.
For all that though, people forget that it was John Lydon who played a big part in popularising reggae when Branson took him to Jamaica when he was starting the Front Line reggae label. Mr. Rotten made him sign the whole country.
The punk embrace of reggae helped Marley into the mainstream. He returned the compliment:
Wailers still be there
The Jam, The Dammed, The Clash
Wailers still be there
Dr. Feelgood too, ooh
No boring all farts No boring all farts No boring all farts will be there
No boring all farts No boring all farts No boring all farts will be there
Yeah, it's the punky reggae party
And it's tonight
Punky reggae party
And it's alrightWords and Music by Bob Marley, 1977
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
Meow. I always thought this was far far better than Counting the Beat, which was pure pop
+1
not that you are at all partisan about that..
I'm gonna get my whole back-catalogue onto this thread if it kills me
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Scott Chris,
Like you say, each to their own. (“but why can’t I see it, it’s so fucking obvious” I hear you say)
No, not all. You probably did have to be there to understand how utterly stagnant it all (and I mean 'all' in that it also transformed design, fashion, cinema, writing and wider attitudes to much more) had become.
And how much it changed it 'all'.
If you've not seen it, Don Letts fantastic Punk: Attitude says it so much better than I'm perhaps doing:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Sacha,
probably the first punk-influenced track I remember.
Which grew out of:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Biobbs,
Yes, OK, he became wealthy because people liked his music,
But not for years. His royalties and recording contract were frozen for years by CBS because of legal disputes. He mostly didn't get paid until about 1980.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
punk, in my opinion, is way over-analysed.
I've just done that for you I think :)
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to philipmatthews,
That's the first time I've ever found Rolf Harris funny.
Even funnier - the Rolf version was the hit in the UK.