That Sad Saeed is pathetic. Shows ONE band that had a black dude in it and tries to expand that into “Punk was Black”.
Nice try, girl, but not playing. I didn’t see ANY blacks involved in my area. Not one. Even among visiting or touring bands. None nil nada rien.
But I do take issue with Mr McInnes' brushing off of Death. To be sure, they were not influential due (in my opinion) to their not getting a record deal (they refused to change their name). But after hearing their recordings from the mid-1970s, I'm convinced if they'd come in the scene, they would have been mega-influential. Check out Politicians In My Eyes and, I hope, you'll see my point.
The only black dudes that i remember in my punk days were HR and the dudes in Bad Brains, but then again, that stuff didnt matter.
Gavin is wrong when he says punk was originally British. The Ramones and the whole CBGB scene predated British punk and influenced the early Brit band’s to start.
low IQ underachievers = perfect punk rock band name.
Also, the JackAzzera revisionist histories cite Margaret Thatcher as a cause of punk in England. Nope. She wasn’t PM until 1979. They are already post-punk by then.
But Leftist loons hate Margaret Thatcher (and Reagan) and push crap to kids at very turn.
And the political left was late to the game in punk (as they were to rock and roll). Commmies hated it. The Marxist Left didn’t appreciate the MC5’s “white panthers” thing and called them out as sexist pigs. Read Leggs’ McNeil’s account (from oral histories) in Please Kill Me.