> > Gold star. Velvet Underground is definitely ground zero for Punk to > > my ears, but with this recent set of pre-Velvets minimalist releases > > (eg, Dream Theater, with LaMount Young, John Cale--who helped start > > the band I was in, and others), the stage was somewhat set. > > > Yeah, yeah, yeah; I loved the Velvets too - but the stuff we Brits > called "punk" in 1976 was quite unlike that, except for being a bit > raucous. It was more derived from a kind of mutated pub-rock mated > with football chants, with undertones of Hawkwind-like bass riffs, > played by semi-competent nerds. > > NY invented punk first. Then London invented something else and stole > the name. > I suppose now it lives in LA - got sick of London gray and NYC cold.
> So sue us. > Be careful what you wish for. M
