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re: The Germs are the band people think the Sex Pistols are
Posted on 5/21/14 at 12:53 pm to Chef Leppard
Posted on 5/21/14 at 12:53 pm to Chef Leppard
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Loved that punk bible by Legs McNeil. Can't remember name of the book right off.
Please Kill Me?
Legs McNeil also started Punk! magazine and is likely the guy who gave the scene its name. Which is pretty f'n cool. I do like how the book traces the roots to Detroit, and the settles in on the CBGB scene. The Pistols come off terribly (especially McLaren), as does Patti Smith. Man, a lot of people hate her f'n guts. Lou Reed comes off as an a total a-hole, but a really cool total a-hole, so it almost helps his myth.
The book does a good job of showing how 70s punk was not connected to hardcore. The story ends in the last 70s, and you can see how punk was very much a movement of art school kids slumming it. It's pretty interesting. Hardcore would never get played at Andy Warhol's party.
We've Got the Neutron Bomb is a great oral history of the LA hardcore scene.
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