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PROTO_PUNK

A lot of the stuff I was
listening to in the early
70s seems like precursors
of the later punk stuff.

Some of it is obvious, like
The Who's "Live at Leeds",
or "The Velvet Underground"          David Bowie's
(a "discovery" of mine made          "Suffragette City"
only shortly before hearing
of Patti Smith).                          And "The Fugs"!
                                          Intentionally sloppy,
                                          intentionally rude
Other's aren't                            (albeit more "gleeful"
recognized as "punk"                      than nasty).
though they seem
like that to me...                          Consider the
                                            sound of the
For example                                 track "CIA Man".
John Lennon's
first solo album:

A lot of very stark
hammering on the
piano with lyrics             On the other hand, I also
doing a retreat into          had an inexplicable
a bleak, tough realism.       fondness for very minor
                              Johnathan Sebastian albums,
                              so don't take my proto-punk
                              posing too seriously.

                                        (Remind me to sing
                                        "Rooty-toot Baby"
                                        for you some time,
                                        should this point
                                        need reinforcement.)



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