Bigo I think "The Tubes" came over to England with a load of hype, and they were just so crap. The night i saw them live sticks in my mind like a near death experience. I'm a bit envious you saw Elvis Costell live. One of the few that got away for me i'm afraid (Blood & Chocolate!!). I saw The Clash at the Lyceum ballroom, The Strand In london in 1979. Also great that you like the Pogues. Funny fact number 2, when I saw The Clash Live, one of the support bands was "The Nipple Erectors", Shane Macgowans group prior to fronting The Pogues. I agree the manufactured pap music of the so called "Boy bands" are hard beat for pure awfulness, but that damn Tubes gig leaves me cold.
Been a right old trip down memory lane. Was a massive fan of The Damned back in the day, saw 'em live more times than i can remember. Also saw The Ramones at Newcastle Mayfair on the 'Too Tough To Die' tour, then The Cramps a few years later, effing brilliant !! If anyone's interested, my mates are in an old-skool punk band called Holy Racket, and, with their permission i'm flinging it around via the buddies channel. If anyone wants it, give me a shout. Dene
The Damned, The Pogues, The Ramones, The Clash, The Cramps are all quality. I'd be remiss not mention another favorite, Bad Religion. Hard driving, hard hitting and damned intelligent lyrics. _X_X_X_X_X_[small] "And there we saw the giants ... And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." Numbers 13:33[/small]
Hey Dene, just yesterday I watched the episode of The Young Ones where The Damned sang "Video Nasty". Love that episode. I liked University Challenge the best, Motorhead sang "Ace Of Spades" in that one
Damn, good ones. I can't walk away. How about the Vibrators, the Dictators, old Blondie, Chris Spedding(Hurt by Love), The Saints, Eater, Smashing Pumpkins, Jim Carroll(People Who Died), Stiff Little Fingers, Graham Parker and the Rumor, Pearl Jam, Charlatans UK, Del Lords, and last but not least, Cracker(not to be confused with Uncle Cracker).
Hee hee, Blondie. My ten-year-old self wandered about aimlessly fantasizing about Debbie Harry after I first saw the video for "Rapture". At that age the only singer to surpass Debbie Harry's splendor was Annabella Lwin from the band Bow Wow Wow. Man that mohawk she had made my little body tingle all over and still does to this day. Great music too _X_X_X_X_X_[small] "And there we saw the giants ... And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." Numbers 13:33[/small]
Nephilim Like yer Bow wow wow pic. This leads me to another (perhaps boring) story from my youth. I saw them live at "The rainbow" in London. The support group was a 40 piece "Glen Miller" style swing band. They were only meant to be on stage for 30 minutes, but Annabella Lwin went "walkies" and arrived an hour late. That Glenn Miller style band were on for nearly 1 1/2 hours. How they escaped serious inury has always been a mystery to me. I have only bad experiences of Moterhead. I saw them at "The reading Rock festival" in 1979 (unfortunately The Ramones & Thin Lizzy (Remember them??) pulled out. Moterhead were great live but I had all my beer stolen from my tent that night..the it rained..and rained. Their appearance on The Young Ones was truly memorable. PS If you wish to shoot me..please feel free.
Not a chance in hell chief! You're good people. Getting all your beer stolen and an hour and ahalf of swing would ruin just about any show That was a great young Ones episode except they kept zooming in on the nasty growths on Lemmy's face. _X_X_X_X_X_[small] "And there we saw the giants ... And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." Numbers 13:33[/small]
Aye, Neph, The Damned & Motorhead on the Young Ones was a chuckle indeed. Just came to mind that i saw The Lurkers a few months back (beer's fuzzing me brain up these days, lol), absolutely punk fusking rocktastic. Caught The Vibrators live in a small bar in my hometown about 3 years back, proving there's life in the old dogs yet !I'll post some more useless info as & when it returns
UNREAL, I can't believe the Vibrators are still together! Remember "baby, baby"? Did they play it when you saw them?
I don't really consider any band the worst ever, because past a certain level of suck they're all equally bad to me. I'm more of a metalhead (no not hair bands - metal) than the others here who seem to be around my age or a little older, but I agree with most of the punk bands listed (although there's a couple I've heard of but not heard). Most of the punk I listen to is The Ramones, old Motorhead, The Damned, early Misfits, and early Talking Heads. Another great band that most people haven't even heard of, even though without them punk as we know it might not exist, is the MC5. And let's not foget Bad Brains, who IMHO were possibly the most musically interesting/talented/experimental punk band ever. Lately I listen to a lot of Living Colour, Iron Maiden, Drivin N Cryin, Motorhead, and Deep Purple. This thread has inspired me to dig up a couple of early Talking Heads bootlegs I have somewhere. There's one from '77 (at CBGB of course) that has the best version of Psycho Killer I've ever heard!
Bigorange, they didn't only play baby baby, mate, they played the bloody lot, were onstage for best part of 2 hours without a break !!
safc, damn you are lucky, They were an early influence in the punk genre, great band. Speaking of early influence, what about the punk grandaddy-Iggy Pop? (if ya don't count Pete Townsend) BTW, vurbal I did go to CBGB's back in the day, what a place! I saw Robert Gordon and the Shirts. The atmosphere was as stimulating as the music, especially to a pup like me with eyes wide. lol BTW, any self respecting punk would remember MC5, another good one, sigh, I miss those days, music was so exciting, I couldn't wait to check out new stuff! Edit-this thread seems to be turning into the best bands, not the worst. It's getting a life of it's own. _X_X_X_X_X_[small] [bold]GO VOLS![/bold]..Dell Media4600, XP,Pentium 4 @2.80GHz/800Mz,512MB,280HDw/8MB,17" flat panel,AIO-A920,8xDVD-ROM,integrated 5.1 audio, HPdc4000,PlextorPX-708UF,LiteOn SO[/small]
I have to go with that band called "Extreme" I think? They had that awful song "More than words".. Makes me wanna puke thinking about it.. Matt
Oh yeah, I definitely love Iggy! In fact, it's hard to really separate his early work from the MC5 since they got their starts in the same place, and at the same time. He might not have ever gotten "discovered" except that he was opening for them the night they got signed. You might be interested in knowing that the surviving members of the MC5 (Wayne Kramer, Dennis Thompson, and Michael Davis) have been touring together with various guest musicians, and have released a live DVD that also includes some older footage, the promotional video for Kick Out The Jams and even Department of Defense surveillance footage of the band (and presumably their manager) from the Democratic Convention. I hadn't realized it was available until today, and I'm definitely going to buy it. Since I can't really pick out a worst, I'll just make a list of some of the bands I think are really over-rated. The Rolling Stones - These guys haven't been in their prime for about 30 years. Aside from an occasional song like Star, Star they haven't written anything I cared for for almost my entire lifetime. Greatest rock and roll band in the world my ass! Eric Clapton - Let me start by saying I think Cream was one of the finest bands I've ever heard. On the other hand, Clapton himself is one of the most boring, tired guitarists in the world, and he's more or less been a parody of himself since some time in the mid-70's. Plus, when he doesn't surround himself with great talent to work off of (and he almost never does) he just isn't that inspired. His recording of the blues classic "I'm Tore Down" is possibly the most white bread, Barry Manilow meets Pat Boone recording of the song I've ever heard. The Eagles - Excellent musicians, but they wrote some horrible songs. The band got a little better when Joe Walsh joined, but if you listen to their live album from the early 80's, the only song that doesn't sound straight off the studio album is the Joe Walsh solo tune "Life's Been Good". Peter Frampton - Frampton is a damn good guitarist, especially on rythym, but I've never heard any solo work for him that didn't come off as self indulgent and boring. On the other hand, his work with Humble Pie was amazing. _ _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue DVD Rebuilder Guides: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd_rebuilder_tutorial.cfm http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd_rebuilder_tutorial_advanced.cfm[/small]
Loved Humble Pie-"30 days in the Hole" and others, that live double album was kick ass! When Frampton left them he sucked! Joe Walsh and the James Gang, I was fortunate enough to see them, he made a big mistake going to the Eagles(ugh). "Walk Away' was great! Ummm....Stones...Yeah, I like the Stones. I will agree they don't do what they did, but it's commendable they still get out and try at their age. I love Keith Richard's syncopated guitar licks and classics like "Gimme Shelter", "Sympathy for the Devil", and "Can't Always Get What You Want" will always be the songs legends are made of to me. Cream, what a band, every member went on to be a rock n' roll legend! To this day I still get chills when I hear "White Room".
I agree with all of your selections from the Stones (and I'd have to add Paint It Black to the list of all time greats). Of course they're all from the pre Ron Wood era (and his stuff with Faces is also classic). As great as Ron is, that seems to me like the moment where they started declining, or maybe it started with Altamont. I remember seeing something on VH1 a couple of years ago where a bunch of musicians voted Satisfaction as the greatest rock and roll song of all time, and somebody actually went so far as to say that the main riff is one of the most unique in all of music. I thought that was funny since it's possibly the most generic Keith Richards riff ever (I think he used practically the same one on at least half a dozen songs) and it's not even the best Stones song, let alone the best rock and roll song. Now if you want to hear a really great performance of a Stones song, find Johnny Winter's recording of Jumping Jack Flash. That's great rock and roll!
Great tune and johhny did a great job! Him and his brother Edgar did a rendition of "Johnny be Good" live, remember that? Go, Go, Go Johnny Go, go go! man, that goes back, in the days of Deep Purple, Led Zepplin(why haven't they been mentioned?) Uriah Heep, the Who, etc., etc., and etc. RAW POWER!
Hey now! Deep Purple is around now! In fact I'm hoping to go see them this fall. And I love that recording of Johnny B Goode. His "covers" are always so much more complex than the originals. Actually I've seen Johnny and Edgar both (not together) a few years ago, and they were both good shows. Uriah Heep's technically still touring, but they've really been more Spinal Tap-esque for the last 15 years or so. Come to think of it, the guy who actually played all the drum parts for This Is Spinal Tap was in Uriah Heep for a few years. Hmmm If you're going to start on those bands, let's not forget UFO or Hawkwind either.
