What are you listening to RIGHT NOW!

[Mr Heuristics]

I do agree, Jello brought the anarchic rawness to the stage which is the basis of punk!
As a very close friend of mine often said before his untimely death… “Punk is a feeling not a fashion”
But fast forward from the late 70’s to the present day… the gig was fantastic and Skip definitely nailed it, best gig I’ve been to in a lot of years.

"Punk's not dead, it just deserves to die when it becomes another stale cartoon."

I got to hang out w Jello in 1990. He was doing a spoken word in LA (Die For Oil, Sucker) and a buddy and I took multiple buses and skated for hours across the San Fernando Valley in 105 degree (Farenheit) heat to see him at CSUN. We were about 14 y/o. He was really nice to us and drew pictures on our skateboards w markers we had for tagging, Lol. I had a Youth of Today sticker on my deck and he laughed maniacally and drew devil horns and a forked tongue on the singer while he launched into a 30 minute rant about hardcore and straight edge culture (we were sober because we were kids). Great memory. I think it was before he was super addicted to heroin.

 

[g00n]

Great speech, great song. Love how raw it is

 

[DarioM6611]

I don't know if it's true, but it's a wonderful intro for the story of Erik and Kristy:

"Sacramento, California. Summer of 1972.

Erick Purkisher is riding around the outskirts of town in a convertible with a friend, listening to an old Hasil Adkins cassette.

They laugh and talk about the usual things. Drugs, women, rock 'n' roll.

Suddenly, while Sally Weedy Waddy Woody Wally comes out croaking from the car radio speakers, one of Erick's erotic dreams materializes on the side of the road and it has the shape of a panther. Red hair, pin-up curves, a top and Ultravixen mini-shorts with a tear that leaves a few good centimeters of visibility on a small red panty and on a few millimeters of ivory skin. Erick raises his sunglasses, slows down. She stops swaying, turns and shows her finger. Not the middle finger, as perhaps he would expect it to be, but the thumb: that stunning woman named Kristy Wallace is a hitchhiker. Erick asks her to come up, Kristy accepts.

In that car, that evening, one of the most beautiful love stories ever was born.

On that convertible driving into the sunset with Adkins' music whipping through the air, that evening, the Cramps were born."

 

[threeh4sh]

 

[DarioM6611]

Oh "some fools mess" is one of my favourite tracks from them.

I didn't know this song. Some fool's mess is a song from The Gun Club? I only have purchased their first two album. Being said that, I love punk music for the rage, the passion, the energy and anarchist power. But I am afraid of the violence. I have only been to one punk concert in my life, an Italian group, and that's enough for the rest of my life. I am probably too well educated...

 

[C Master]

I didn't know this song. Some fool's mess is a song from The Gun Club? I only have purchased their first two album. Being said that, I love punk music for the rage, the passion, the energy and anarchist power. But I am afraid of the violence. I have only been to one punk concert in my life, an Italian group, and that's enough for the rest of my life. I am probably too well educated...

It is not about the violence it is more about the idealogy expressed through a musical art form. The actual violence is an unwelcome extension of punk for people who do not get the underlying sensibilities. It is like watching Fight Club and only taking the message of violence out of it rather than the multiple concepts behind it such as actually caring for each other as a community of like minded people and trying to facilitate real change.

 

[C Master]

100th year anniversary I am off to see it preformed live at the end of this month.

 

[g00n]

 

[C Master]

 

[g00n]

 

[C Master]

 

[g00n]

 

[Pickledbeetroot]

Liz Frazer has a beautiful voice

 

[g00n]

 

[Mr Heuristics]

This was one of the first cassette's I bought as a 11 year old. AHA's Take Me On was the first. I had to wash a lot of neighbors cars and rake a lot of leaves to buy that cassette.

 

[kilowattore]

 

[daytona4me]

 

[Storm.]

 

[daytona4me]

Watching the kid, huh? lol

 

[Storm.]

Watching the kid, huh? lol

No it's for me. That's my zen method.