Post #181195 by donhonyc on Mon, Aug 22, 2005 3:06 PM

Hey People-

So far, so good. Nice insightful stuff. Gardener-good point on The Sonics and The Monks. Jab-yeah...The Troggs. I didn't think about any of those at first. In fact The MC5's "I Want You Right Now" on the 'Kick Out the Jams' album is basically ripping of "Wild Thing", no?
The one thing I'd say though about the Stooges & the 5, is that I think punk may have happened more as a consequence of listening to them than maybe listening to The Sonics or The Troggs. Not to take anything away from them mind you. But yeah... I'm sure Jim Osterberg was listening to both of those bands while he was drumming in The Iguanas a good few years before he became Iggy Pop and was singing/destructing for The Stooges.

nuKKe-you said "tracing the "real","true" origins of punk is something that's better be left for mediocre academics and lazy journalists, who need a starting point and strict definitions"

...what do think WE are?