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Re: I wanna be punk



> So lets say the Ramones did not influence SP, did 'My Generation'
> influence both?  For extra credit - how?

"My Generation" is snotty.  I thinks the punks liked that.  The Stones
were scruffy but The WHO were (are?) snotty.  

But the punks already knew what happens to snotty bands.  They get
bloated & self-indulgent & tend to become parodies.  The punks were
afforded the luxery of being able to see their supposed future via their
predecessors.  Punks were warring against *that,* too.

I think most punks knew what The WHO had done.  They knew there
was a debt there.  But they were not about to get on their knees & kiss
ass.  They wanted to do things their way.  Many felt people of the WHO's
generation *had* the chance, but fucked it all up.  Lost the reason.

Johnny Lydon (Rotten) tells a story in that recent Sex Pistols documentary
about doing a cover of "Substitute."  He says one of the things (of many)
he hated about Glen Matlock (original bassist, pre Sid Vicious) was that
he used to get angry that Rotton wasn't singing the true lyrics to "Substitute."
He was changing bits here & there.  "It's a classic," Glen would say.  "You
can't change the lyrics!"  There's no admiration or praise in Rotten's voice
regarding The WHO here.  "Fuck that," I believe is what he says in the 
movie.

He wants the viewer to know that he thinks Glen Matlock was an idiot for
holding a song, or a group in such high regard.  Fuck that.

But punk didn't really change anything, did it?  Sure it stirred the pot for a
while.  But freshness never lasts, does it?  Pete always says, what brought
Punk down was the fact that it completely wiped the musical slate clean.
It acknowledged no past.  No heroes.  No mentors (except of course,
The Mentors, but that's another story!).

But you know, a lot of 'em knew it.  A lot of *original* punks knew it was 
all gonna be over pretty quick.  And except for the residue, it was.


- SCHRADE in Akron