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PROTO_PUNK

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

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
There are other                           (albeit more "gleeful"
examples that                             than nasty).
wouldn't usually be
recognized as "punk"                        Consider the
though they seem                            sound of the
like that to me...                          track "CIA Man".

For example
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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