Best Punk Band

[gingerjedi]

Define punk? I'd say 'The Stooges'.

[darmstadt]

I remember being on the top deck of a bus in Liverpool around 1980 and seeing a marker pen graffito:

When is a mod not a mod?

When he's on his own.

Flux Of Pink Indians:

I've got a target on my back but I ain't a ******* mod

[darmstadt]

Back in the mid-70's I heard the Stooges, MC5 and then the Sex Pistols and those early punk bands (used to go to the 100 club, Roxy, Electric Ballroom, etc.) and thought, this is the stuff and a few of us formed a band. None of us could play, I didn't even have an instrument (well a trumpet) and was the bassist. Eventually we got a bit better, I got a guitar and we had a tulip hot drummer who was about 13. Our first gig was a shambles but well received, particularly the last number, Noise, a tune where every member played what they wanted to.

Slowly people came and went but we got more proficient and more and more gigs up and down the land supporting bands such as the UK Subs, Vibrators, etc but our music started to get harder faster and slowly we got more into the Discharge, Charged GBH, Disorder style (actually they copied us....) but changes happened. The Oi scene came along and we started playing with bands such as the Business, 4-Skins, Blitz, Exploited, etc. We made an album, playing for another band who were crap and slowly things went downhill and I was kicked out for doing too many wiggly things on the guitar. I went off to play with friends elsewhere doing 'hippy punk' with support to bands such as Here and Now. They went off and called themselves Todays Kids (eh?), released a single under that name and got connected slightly with the right wing scene (although the drummer was Argentinian.) So I did have a bit of a punk interlude and still have a fondness for it. Maybe even dig out some singles later

[EternalOptimist]

You really were a bit of a yob EO. I find your recent posts about your exhuberant, crime filled past churlish and a bad example for todays youth. How must some of our younger, more impressionable contractors think!

Chess club and karate taught me discipline & respect.

shut it, sumo

[cojak]

I was going though my Mike Oldfield phase (never really left it to be honest).

But the Clash were the best I reckon.

[Tingles]

When I was a lad...

I was a bank clerk at the Bank of England (circa '78) at lunchtime we used to go to a little record shop off Cheapside - there we listened to The Members, Sham69, The Slits, Desperate Bicycles, The Jam, Reckless Eric, The Ramones, The Stranglers, The Clash... etc.

'appy daze...

Then, unfortunately, I grew up.


Tone

[Doggy Styles]

Strength Through Oi!

[shaunbhoy]

Not a proper poll without the Ruts, the Skids, X-Ray Spex, or Sham 69.............to name but a few that are worthy of mention!

[Tingles]

Wayne / Jayne County.

[mudskipper]

Anti-nowhere league.

Their cover of 'Streets of London' was brilliant, and 'So what' and 'woman' were classics. Still play them in the car sometimes (when the kids aren't with me!)