Seven Ages Of Rock BBC 2 now - Punk

[Monkster]

The whole point of the programme is not an in depth look at the rock family tree though is it? More that they pick a defining artist & try to trace back who influenced them and their piers around them at the time..eg program 1 jimi Hendrix - didn't exactly invent the electric guitar or ROCK did he

Otherwise, each program would last 10 hrs and start at a caveman called Bruce

 

[Trufflehound]

Tim Westwood used to design their clothes.

I thought that was Vivien Leigh?

 

[Parson Henry]

His name was Denzil not Bruce!

 

[Parson Henry]

I thought that was Vivien Leigh?

She acted in 'A Night at the Oprah'

 

[London Calling]

The Stooges weren't mentioned. Nor were the MC5, nor were the New York Dolls.

A pretty poor programme I thought, by far the worst of the three so far.

Agree. Clips of bands were often not of the period reported. And at one stage thay had film of the Pistols on stage, though music played was from the record?

 

[Trufflehound]

She acted in 'A Night at the Oprah'

Goddamnedest best country 'n' western venue thar is...

Yeeehaw!

 

[Gwylan]

The whole point of the programme is not an in depth look at the rock family tree though is it? More that they pick a defining artist & try to trace back who influenced them and their piers around them at the time..eg program 1 jimi Hendrix - didn't exactly invent the electric guitar or ROCK did he

Otherwise, each program would last 10 hrs and start at a caveman called Bruce

That's fair enough. But to talk about the Sex Pistols and not mention The Stooges is crass as the Stooges were a clear influence.


And as Malcolm Maclaren also managed the NYD and treated them as a sort of trial run for the Pistols is also weird.

 

[Peteinblack]

Not enough on The Clash, and (contrary to above posts) I think the early Stranglers really warranted being in the programme: their first album Rattus Norvegicus is classic (one of my all time faourite top 3), particularly the closing track 'Down in the Sewer' (the 'Stairway to Heaven' of punk?), whilst the totally over-rated Peaches is the only naff track on it, and totally unrepresentative of the rest of the matierial.

Saw the Clash 11 times and The Stranglers 21 times, for the record, m'lud.

 

[Arthur]

Glen Medeiros in the Sex Pistols?

Yes he left after falling out Johnny Ball and was replaced by Sid Owen.

 

[Trufflehound]

Yes he left after falling out Johnny Ball and was replaced by Sid Owen.

Ah yes, the classic line up with Peter Cook on drums and Griff Rhys Jones on guitar.

 

[NMH]

What has phil collins to do with punk, except for the fact that his sort necessitated it!

Eddie and The Hot Rods and The Damned were there at the start of punk, after and during that 'pub-rock' era where the Hope and Anchor was the media-dahling pub to be at (like no other place mattered, bloody NME and Melody Maker wankers).

The first Pistols LP barely featured any more of the SPs than Johnny Rotten. Chris Spedding was heavily rumoured to have been the guitarist. When I asked John 'R', he declined to comment....which is a 'yes' in my book.

 

[tedebear]

I do wish they'd stop dragging Patti Smith and her f***ing horses out! What a load of poop that is....

 

[Peteinblack]

I do wish they'd stop dragging Patti Smith and her f***ing horses out! What a load of poop that is....

"Jesus died for somebody's sins", but not Patti's, she claims.

 

[Dandyman]

It's also a little known fact that he put together the Sex Pistols before realising that he plain and simply didn't have the time or patience to deal with Glen Medeiros's wild mood swings and raving alcoholism (he was drinking 4 cans of top deck a day at his worst!!). It was then he passed them over them to Steve MacClaren to manage. The rest they say is history!

I can't help feeling you are ignoring the seminal influence of Arthur Askey on the whole scene. His exploits at the Roxy in the long hot summer of '76 will long live in the memory.