Posts tagged punk rock

Trash and Vaudeville, The Shop That Punk Built - An excellent history of the storied punk establishment. Including this great line from Jimmy Webb manager and buyer: “Lou Reed’s 1972 ode to hustlers, transsexuals and transsexual hustlers would alter Mr. Webb’s life. ‘A friend asked, ‘Do you know what it means?’ ’ he recalled. ‘I did without knowing it. I knew I was a boy that had to leave to go somewhere.’”

Black Flag 1983, Ginn, Dukowski and Rollins

Punk Rock; Threat To World Order? New Wave Music Seen as ‘Political Threat’ Nations Alarmed! (1977)

Sex Pistols Poster For Their Final Tour in The UK - Poster promoting the Sex Pistols’ last shows in the UK: their ”Never Mind The Bans” tour. The poster’s designer Jamie Reid puts the punk band’s image to work, proudly displaying a collage of rejection letter clippings from venues that refused to host them. One reads: ”…The unfortunate reputation they have gained seems to bring in its wake inevitable scenes of violence and resulting damage…” Slated to play eight shows in the UK from 16-25 December 1977, the turmoil-laden band had to cancel half of them and would never play the UK again. Sid Vicious would die of a heroin overdose on 1 February 1979 at age 21.

Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye is Worth 25 Million Fucking Dollars!

Miss Skaidoll tries out her vinyl…

“Like Camelot, once for a brief shining hour, high in the Hollywood Hills there was a house on Torreyson Drive on the crest of a mountain wherein there dwelt a fanciful, musical tribe called the Stooges. They froliced in the pool, picked fruit right off the trees in the garden, and made music for adoring young ladies. This is a photo of their leader, Iggy Pop, relaxing his painted toenails and and in a friendly mood. This lovely time lasted just over a year with me serving as houseboy, and photographer. I lived above the garage.”— Leee Black Childers

“There was an old nightclub the Club 82, on East 4th Street in New York that had been famous for decades as a transvestite showroom. As those shows eventually fell out of favor, the rock and early punk bands moved in. The New York Dolls, Manhattan Transfer, etc. And then, in a way, things came full circle. In came Wayne County, transvestite punk rocker. And what a night it was. The old lesbian bartenders from previous days were thrilled as well as the young punks. As we all know, Wayne became Jayne and went on to much fame.” — Leee Black Childers