http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V72qQhm12K8

Birds sing there's not a cloud in the sky, yeah August 8th is a beautiful day,
I see a bunch of hippies crying, yeah August 8th is a beautiful day,
Like waking up from a real bad dream, suddenly everything is ok.
The storm has passed and the sun is shining, yeah August 8th is a beautiful day.

What's going on, what's going on, is something bumming your scene?
There's something wrong, there's something wrong, I'm not trying to be mean.

The air is sweet the summer flowers blooming nowhere in sight is there anything grey,
Feelings of joy are filling the street, yeah August 8th is a beautiful day.
Like waking up from a fucked up dream, suddenly everything's looking good.
There's been no permanent damage done, yeah August 8th came right when it should.

What's going on, what's going on, is something bumming your scene?
There's something wrong, there's something wrong, I'm not trying to be mean.

Poor Jeff,
Poor little Timmy Turtle,
Staying home on such a beautiful day.

Or "Far out!" I can't remember which...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc

Easy for you to laugh, us old fucks had to live with this...

Just seeing garfunkel's forehead-of-sincerity thrown back there is enough to need an early morning antidote. Since I don't drink in the mornings, here's some shit to wash out the gleaming foreheads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC3ZIfK5rto


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScmRiaZhwk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpwYciT5VM

I am feeling better already...

Like Black Flag? Whaddya listen from lately? There is a band called OFF! that is basically Keith Morris writing new stuff that sounds like its from 30 years ago. If that description gets you stoked, its definitely for you.

And dude fucking KILLS IT live still

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ9dyfQt7k4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Pettibon His brother is Greg Ginn. He did art for Blag Flag albums and flyers.

http://d14j21k36u347g.cloudfront.net/wordpress_core/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/mywar.jpg

http://www.brixton.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Blog-Pettibon-Flyers-Brixton.jpg

That's a good song, I'll look up some more from them.

I'm all kinds of old, my tastes fossilized around 1992. Sadly I was just born a little too late, and venues out here like the Mabuhay and Berkeley Square were closing just as I was old enough to go to shows. I've seen the Buzzcocks and the Vandals though. I like old school, although I gravitate more towards garage these days. Have you heard of The Dirtbombs? They're out of Detroit. I don't know if they will appeal to hardcore punk tastes, but I try to spread their love wherever I can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53F-TxE1BEU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpmRHyUUmZw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne_LFUYaoXw

The singer used to be the frontman for the Gories:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfuXJL6JTIU

so my formative bands were Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, Rancid, Offspring then discovering Bad Religion and so on.

I like alot of the earlier bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, Clash, Ramones, etc but don't listen to them that much.

The distorted rhythm on the Dirtbombs is crazy. One of the recommendations on their itunes is Jay Reatard who experimented with the same sound somewhat. If you've not heard of him hes worth a listen (he OD'd last year though at age 29)

There was a radio station in the Bay Area that is still legendary today. KQAK. Their stated format was Rock of the 80's, but they played lots of punk/protopunk stuff from the 70's too. Black Flag, New York Dolls, Magazine, Buzzcocks, Clash, Joy Division, Ramones on and on. Local San Francisco stuff too. All of it. Any one from that time still talks about the demise of The Quake like our favorite relative had died. It was very eclectic, and when it was sold to some corporate goon-squad the DJs rebelled and played nothing but three straight days of Brian Eno records in protest. No commentary, just every record over and over, front to back.

The program director ended up moving to 91x in San Diego for a few years and I lived there my first year of college so I got to listen to what they were playing down there. Lots of punk, but more like The Dickies, Dead Milkmen, Mojo/Skid, X, Beat Farmers/Country Dick Montana, etc. I don't know what you call that. Those guys all faded away and then things morphed into "College Radio" and that's when I turned into a fossil.

You might get a laugh out of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x-Jnun7s2c

One of the times I saw the Ramones was backing Iggy Pop at a grungy club...Iggy saluted the old fogies (moi et al) sitting in back...

I always kick myself for not trying harder to ever see The Ramones. They always seemed like they'd be around forever so there wasn't any hurry. Iggy was the best live show I've ever seen. I think that was in '90. Alice in Chains opened, it was before grunge got big and several of us were confused, lol.

http://www1.sk-static.com/images/media/img/col4/20090614-030632-654574.jpg

Jane's Addiction or Nirvana, though I was an old fogey already in 90...A friend of mine waited tables at the MTV Nirvana unplugged event...

I was a teen in the 80's but it was the 90's music that I was able to get out and see. In the Washington DC area there was a progressive station called WHFS and they put on a festival every summer with all the new alternative bands they could get. I feel ancient now too, can not see what today's youth like about that hip hop music. lol

But yeah, hip hop I don't get either. But I've been told I'm just a hater.

"Nevermind" was the album that got my attention (me and everyone else). Breaking Benjamin is my favorite band so I'm not too out there. :)

Here's some stuff" - Iggy's step-dad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH88yLbUE7E

Hard to classify Bowie, he was all over the place stylistically, liked all of his stuff until he went pure disco and I gotta say he could even make disco sound 'better'.

Ziggy Stardust was one of the best r&r albums of all times.

Once he got through to the other side of disco his stuff is really good. I remember having "The Man Who Sold the World" (in 8-track, of course) back in like '71 - it was all I ever listened to for months...

my eyeliner was perfect...glam was the father of punk...loved Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Lou Reed, and Iggy...

;)

It's kind of uneven, but it's set in the glam music times, showcasing the Bowie/Iggy dynamic. Ewan McGregor plays the Iggy character. I went looking for clips on youtube and realized that many of them are kind of naughty. :D Just do a search for the movie title on youtube.

A couple of songs they do in the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylww2dOW7fg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeEBMJt8vs

I did some drawings based on the Roxy music video, I'm not sure why--it's not my usual thing to draw, but I love their look. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=64491&id=1207657039&l=b2ddb514c4

maybe wouldn't have taken this turn in this thread: then it was flannel and levis (black eyeliner still in place...), what a fucked up kid I was... ;)

Speaking of Ewan McGregor, did you ever see the mini series documentary, "Long way Round?" McGregor and a fellow actor traveled east from Scotland through Europe and Asia to Siberia, then across North America to NY. Great stuff in the steppes nations...worth checking out...(they then did Long way Down from Scotland to Cape Horn, I'd watch the first one first...)

non-sequiter, but, its all one... ;)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348080/Grandma-acid-Researcher-finds-rare-footage-1950s-housewife-LSD-experiment.html