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: : : ...HRG. You've been on this board too long to not : : know I made that "mobile" post. I slipped up on a : : few words, and ya let me have it. So. I gots ta : : say... : : ...Jesus Christ...It looks like the power grid : : still hasn't failed over Los Angeles. You know, : : imagine this: the Bugs Bunny Looney Toons music : : is playing, your face is in the middle of the : : screen, and instead of those concentric Tide : : detergent-like rings behind you, there are : : concentric anal sphincters, and the the : : words "That's An Ass, Folks!" reads on top. : : That's how you sound HRG. Punker Than Thou? New : : Wave to the Grave? I don't think so Mrs. : : Robinson. You know nothing. I lived that shit, : : and it had nothing to do with any bandanas, or : : Banana Rama's...It was about *dove gray*. Before : : The Cure's black, before The Clash's camoflage, : : before Oingo Boingo's bright ass colors and : : primitive imagery, everything had to be dove : : gray. That was the feeling on Melrose Avenue, : : that's what Bowie and Spandau Ballet were into, : : and that's what Bauhaus wore at the very start. : : New Wave was about being front and center at : : Ultravox and having Midge Ure hand you the gray : : pick he was using to play his gray Telecaster. : : New Wave was about seeing Romeo Void, a SF band, : : not a Huntington Beach or *Orange County* band : : play at The Spirit Club. It was about watching : : the Untouchables play their signature percussion : : and bass riffs while opening for Burning : : Sensations, who would go onstage with the lone : : guitarist always way over on the right of the : : stage with a brimmed hat. New Wave was seeing The : : Clash at Golden Hall, the Plimsouls three : : times,watching 20/20 play "Yellow Pills", Exene : : Cervenka of X sharing the mic with you when they : : played "We're Desperate" as Billy Zoom wore his : : silver leather jacket with and playing his silver : : guitar. New Wave was getting your school locker : : spit on because you had one sideburn blue and the : : other green. New Wave was waiting till two in the : : morning to watch Blondie go on Don Kirshner's : : Rock Concert as some kind of freak side show as : : DH lifted the toy robot to the camera, all to : : give the Led Zeppelin fans something to laugh : : about. New Wave was when Siouxsie refused to play : : the West Coast, calling the entire scene out here : : bogus. New Wave started out in black and white, : : it then turned into colors. New Wave *turned : : into* Adam and the Ants, it turned into The Cars, : : it turned into the Cure, it turned into Pat : : Benetar, it turned into trash bags, it turned : : into a big ass market of sleeveless lavender : : shirts, skinny leather ties, wearing marching : : band shoes, and anything that you could buy at a : : second hand store. It started as a tribute to : : something America had in the Sixties before ten : : minute long Ted Nugent songs, it turned into a : : way for brits with casios to make a quick buck. I : : never did see any goddamn bandanas. And...for the : : part that you're gonna get force-fed : : last? "Punker than thou"? Heh... yeah, right, : : jesus, I fucking have to laugh. I have to laugh : : because I know you're full of shit. You see... my : : big sister faced with staying home with me, or : : going with her friends, took me with her, as I : : had been begging her for a month, to see the : : Ramones' 1977 "Rocket to Russia" tour when they : : played right there at San Diego State Univ. at : : Montezuma Hall... And I screamed my ass off front : : and center the entire solid show. What in God's : : green earth are you talking about? And do you : : even own a Lucky 7 CD? : : I'm not going to sit here and toss in other bonus : : points: like seeingan upstart Nine Inch Nails in : : some small club on Clairemont Mesa Blvd that drew : : only about fifty people max. or The Pixies three : : times, because I'm hoping you get the message. : : ..it must be terrible going through eternity as a : : wannabe. : : : Okay, back to the usual Mom...It's more of an : : expose' than directed to you in any way...ha. : : Patrick. : : The Black Baby Jesus With The X-ray Vision. : Sorry PattiCakes , but I saw the Ramones two nights before the SDSU show in Encinitas you little Johnny Rotten come lately!!!!....Their number one fan..........Angel : : PS.....I'm punker than you and if you dont like it, you can put it where the monkey puts the nut! : : : HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA, WTF is Moshing? I never : : heard : : : that term pre-90... I think it's a word Perry : : : Ferral coined. When you talk of when punk was : : : legitimate are you talking about NOFX? HA HA : : HA : : : HA. : : : As cheesey as it sounds it was called SLAM : : DANCING : : : in the era you are talking about... unless you : : are : : : talking about The Huntington Beach Shuffle, : : Don't : : : get caught up in the koo-koo's nest! : : : What was the worst was doing the Huntington : : Beach : : : Shuffle in the koo-koo's nest AT the Koo-Koo's : : : nest and getting the various bandanas tied to : : your : : : legs tangled up in Ron Emery's studded jacket, : : : which, then, causes you to be late for the : : taping : : : of THE WALLY GEORGE SHOW you have tickets for. : : : I know you are trying to be cute here... but : : : ragging on *new* punk is like someones : : Grandfather : : : saying "that's not music" EVERY era thinks : : their : : : era punk was the most punk rock of any other : : era. : : : Who gives a rats ass. : : : : : : New Wave 2 Da Grave, : : : -HRG