Talkin' about Johnny Rotten...
BTW... Johnny Rotten is 50 today...
Johnny's 50 and Robert Smith and I share the same birth date.(46) Last of the Boomers gettin' ****** in the late 70's..no jobs then(kinda like the kids today). These guys gave hope to rock music when it was down for the count. Rotten's PIL.. especially The Flowers of Romance was a great and potentially ground breaking album for its time...if you've never listened to it..you should. BTW don't forget about Jah Wobble
I opened for The Real Kids in 1976 or 1977 at The Rat in Boston, they were the first punk I had ever seen or heard of I believe. My band came in with the hair, the amps and equipment all over the place, fancy clothes etc. You could feel the boredom when we were playing our stuff (original band). The Real Kids came out with a pair of KLH hifi speakers for a PA, little amps and started playing, we were all kind of astounded that this terrible band who were lucky if they knew three chords were blowing us off the stage. The funny thing is that by the end of their set I felt very old and passé (I was 24 in 1977). I knew deep inside that I was seeing the future of music and I didn't belong in it. I sensed and I'm sure had read that punk as Andrew alluded to in his post was much more than just music, it was a whole way of life that I knew I didn't belong to. There is still a thriving punk scene here in Ma. especially Boston.
I've always like The Sex Pistols recorded sound as well as The Ramones. I can't listen to that stuff for a long time nor play it for a long time but there were a lot of great bands around during the late 70's that were very good musicians that played punk, it was a very exciting fertile time for rock and those two bands were the guys who shook everything up. There were a lot of British punk bands that I thought were really good but can't remember any of their names. Even radio here in Boston was great with WBCN leading the way, they broke a lot of bands back then.
I'm almost 3 years older than Johnny. I also had a couple of PIL albums way back.
I've always like The Sex Pistols recorded sound as well as The Ramones. I can't listen to that stuff for a long time nor play it for a long time but there were a lot of great bands around during the late 70's that were very good musicians that played punk, it was a very exciting fertile time for rock and those two bands were the guys who shook everything up. There were a lot of British punk bands that I thought were really good but can't remember any of their names. Even radio here in Boston was great with WBCN leading the way, they broke a lot of bands back then.
I'm almost 3 years older than Johnny. I also had a couple of PIL albums way back.
