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hippypants
03-06-2014, 03:03 PM
Early DIY film on Punk:


http://youtu.be/YHFNZy--988

Sunlight Caller
03-07-2014, 08:11 AM
Thanks for this, always interested in this era, and I'll take a look at this when time allows.

Love the Richard Hell track and album of the same name.

Trane
03-07-2014, 12:26 PM
I'll view that tonight

Though it's the first time I hear about the "blank generatio,".... Wasn't it Generation X??

GuitarGeek
03-07-2014, 08:17 PM
I'll view that tonight

Though it's the first time I hear about the "blank generatio,".... Wasn't it Generation X??

You're talking about two different things. Generation X was a British punk band, noted for featuring a young Billy Idol and the guy who later formed Sigue Sigue Sputnik (anyone remember those guys?!).

Blank Generation is a song by Richard Hell And The Voidoids, a NYC band, fronted by bassist/vocalist Richard Hell (who was in the original lineup of Television) and guitar god Robert Quine (who, contrary to the "We can't play our instruments and that's the way we like it" stereotype of punk rock, was actually a Berklee escapee and later went on to play with the likes of John Zorn, Lou Reed, and Matthew Sweet...remember Sweet's early 90's hit, Girlfriend? Well then you've heard Robert Quine, because that's him playing those red hot solos).

hippypants
03-07-2014, 08:24 PM
Yeah, I liked the Richard Hell album too, I think they made a 2nd album, but never heard it.

I haven't see the entire film yet either, but from what I could find it has other performers on it, irrc ie. Blondie, Television, and some others.

Trane
03-08-2014, 05:01 AM
You're talking about two different things. Generation X was a British punk band, noted for featuring a young Billy Idol and the guy who later formed Sigue Sigue Sputnik (anyone remember those guys?!).

Blank Generation is a song by Richard Hell And The Voidoids, a NYC band, fronted by bassist/vocalist Richard Hell (who was in the original lineup of Television) and guitar god Robert Quine (who, contrary to the "We can't play our instruments and that's the way we like it" stereotype of punk rock, was actually a Berklee escapee and later went on to play with the likes of John Zorn, Lou Reed, and Matthew Sweet...remember Sweet's early 90's hit, Girlfriend? Well then you've heard Robert Quine, because that's him playing those red hot solos).

thanks for the explanation... ;)

Though the punk generation has been called (at least in Continental Europe) Generation X retrospectively ... and the Grunge/Emo generation of called the Generation Y as a reference

Didn't have time to view it... maybe tonight.

GuitarGeek
03-08-2014, 01:28 PM
thanks for the explanation... ;)

Though the punk generation has been called (at least in Continental Europe) Generation X retrospectively ... and the Grunge/Emo generation of called the Generation Y as a reference

Didn't have time to view it... maybe tonight.

I don't know about Continental Europe, but at least in the US, "Generation X" was the generation that came of age in the early/mid 90's. When the whole Grunge thing hit, every damn band was being referred to as "the voice of Generation X" or whatever. I remember one band being asked about that, and one of the band members sort of facetiously said "Oh, I thought their first album was pretty good".

hippypants
03-08-2014, 02:36 PM
When the whole Grunge thing hit

I had a friend that heavily got into grunge, though I never did. He recorded me many cassettes of many of the bands, and some hip hop stuff from the 80's era, but our taste just never clicked or met. He never cared for prog either though or anything acoustic much. To each their own, but grunge for me was just warmed over hard rock. The last I'd heard from that friend, he lives around Houston now, and into various forms of metal, black metal, and whatever other forms of metal, which I don't enjoy either. Oh well...