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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 6:40 AM
Subject: RE: punk site
Glaring
errors ??? I seem to recall that I said the roots of punk was in the 50's
rock'n'roll or didn't you read that bit ??? As to the same three
chords. .....well three chords maybe but punk wasn't exactly
constructed around the blues scale was it ..country is built around three
chords but we can hardly link them all can we ??? New York Dolls
etc...as you will have no doubt noticed ( having read the rock'n'roll bit) I
got as far as the MC5 with the History of Punk which means that there is
more to come.
At
to NI punk ...I don't really like much of it and until someone else gets off
their arse and writes something whats there will probably remain ( and
wrong) . And as to SLF we dumb English were always suckers for good tunes
....its in our nature.
Some
glaring errors in your email but still you made at least one good point
Paul@Punk77
Hi..ulp! didn't mean to rattle
your cage..but SLF and good tunes? (they stole Alternative Ulster off No Woman
No Cry, Suspect Device off a Montrose song..space station Number 9? and 78RPM
off Big Time by RUDI...that's only some of the ones Henry owned up
to!..)..look forward to the Dolls stuff..by the way it's a VERY good site..!
28/6/01
Hi..I oughta come clean I
suppose..anyways I (Brian Young)was in RUDI who were the first (and best...
honest!)punk band here ..a pal of mine pointed me in the direction of your
site..which is damn fuckin' good by the way (loved the Raped bit as they were
very close mates of ours..their last gigs as the Raped were here in Belfast
with us before they became the C toys...Paddy and Sean almost ended up in
jail/dead..)and I love all the minutiae of the old stuff..I always gotta get a
poke at SLF as it's fun (and winding Jake up is always recommended..) also as
some prat once remarked something like 'history belongs to the winners' which
means that all the bands here get written out of things in favour of those who
had more mainstream success...the fact is that SLF were really looked on a a
complete joke over here until they went off to England and fooled the gullible
Brit media..don't get me wrong..they were great live (they oughta been as they
had beeen around for years..) but they were about as pUnk as the
Wombles..(mind you so were most of the UK wanna be megastars..)
Weirdly there's more interest now
in the obscure bands (which category I guess RUDI fall into to folks outside
this fine country)and there is gonna be a slew of RUDI bootleg vinyl out on
Last years Youth from Germany (first 45 out a short while back sold 500 in a
couple of weeks!) this is weird..I gave up on punk before RUDI folded as it
had gotten tame and insipid and clichéd beyond belief..but I never lost the
bug and still play in Belfast's greaser kings
The Sabrejets..and we had released
more stuff on more labels in a few years than RUDI got to in all the time we
were together..but I guess the old punk stuff is till with me..Therapy? just
recorded Big Time for their next release (Andy cairns said that the best gig
he was ever at was RUDI in the Ulster Hall..)and we headlined a Joey
Ramone tribute a few weeks back where we were the only band that was (a) over
25 and (b) played rockin' music..what's that guy doing with a cello?....it''s
a double bass dummy!...amazingly it was a great gig and we tore the place
apart..our last Cd sold out here in days..and has even been bootlegged on CDr
locally!..I was just happy to get to play rockabilly versions of 'blitzkreig
Bop' and 'wanna Be Your Boyfriend' ..to find out what we are like check
out Munster records new Johnny Thunders 10" tribute Lp as we do 'Lil Bit
Of Whore'..Thunders was my numero uno and I still collect EVERY thing
related.....and hey..didn't mean to offend ya about SLF....(the stuff about
their songs IS true tho!!..) take it easy greasy! Brian Young
And there
we ended all happy and friends etc etc.
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