My latest blog - help appreciated - PROTO-PUNK!

[Lee de Parade]

I'm taking up the daunting task to fiddle around the strange looking corpse called Proto Punk.

This shady genre is a subject of great debate, but it still lingers and most probably will stay.

I've been poking around, trying to wrap my head around it for years but now I'm making my first move.
I most probably won't get to third base but maybe something good will come out of it.

I will also make blogs dedicated to 50s rock, 60s punk (already in the works) and 70s-80s punk (KBD-style).
All will be for the dummies and newbies to the scene.

If you'd like I would LOVE if you gave me some input and criticism and some much-needed corrections. Not to mention suggestions of bands that should be on it.
I don't know everything, I just pretend I do so that maybe I will. Someday. Over the rainbow.

http://protopunkparalysis.blogspot.se

 

[jeffs11375]

Lee - I've spent the last half hour being thoroughly entertained (not to mention educated) by the posts on your blog. Don't change a thing!!!

 

[Lee de Parade]

Thanks, Jeff! *phew* :)

 

[depravedskippy66]

Looks good, Lee. Will definitely bookmark and spend more time going through it; lots of tracks there that I've yet to hear myself.

Suggestions: Ton, Steine, Scherben - Kinda the German MC5; loosely translated, one of their songs is aloing the lines of 'destroy what destroys you." Also, Jesse Hector's early 70s outfit Crushed Butler. And you can't forget the Deviants/Pink Fairies axis.

 

[Lee de Parade]

Ton, Steine & Scherben - never heard about those!

Thanks! :)

 

[Lee de Parade]

GAWD!

 

[Mr.Segment]

The first song on the first Third World War lp has a lose and raw vibe seldom found so early on in the 70s. The rest is more so-so, but hey, that one song.

Great blog!

 

[Lee de Parade]

Thanks Seg!

Yes whats that called? Preaching Violence?

 

[Mr.Segment]

Just checked, it's Ascension Day. And it's on a 45 as well! Wish I'd noticed that earlier. Must own.

 

[JGTiger]

Very nice blog! I enjoyed all the info, and many new bands I will check out. One I discovered recently, is "The Doctors Of Madness" I thought them to be akin to your style! Terrific, I will be following!

 

[Lee de Parade]

Thanks for the input, I've got 19 tracks lined up for 'publication'.

Please keep the tips coming!

:)

 

[gregk25]

These guys should be considered:

 

[gregk25]

these even more so:

 

[Lee de Parade]

Yes!

 

[Mr.Segment]

I was just about to start blabbering about the lesser knowns that may not qualify entirely as proto-punk but who´s got elements in them that make the songs stand out. Like Gypsy Eyes and Sorcerer, both having elements of Stoogian riffing but not as a whole, in the end perhaps not qualifying as pro to-punk. But when the times comes, let me know mr.Lee!

 

[pfft]

From '74 and '73 respectively. Calvert is pure genius, and Sick On You just oozes booze, fags and vomit.

Excellent blog, by the way!

 

[Mr.Segment]

Robert Calvert, new to me. Thanks!

 

[Lee de Parade]

Calverts contributions to late 70s Hawkwind cannot be overestimated!

Segmo - Gypsy Eyes and Sorcerer are glam, right? I will get into those later. Kraut too. Kraut, and german prog, was really a big inspiration to a lot of early punk bands.

The most stunningly original bands are IMHO early Devo and The Residents. I can't understand where they got their inspiration from.

 

[Mr.Segment]

Segmo - Gypsy Eyes and Sorcerer are glam, right? I will get into those later. .

No! Hard rock (US) with pro to-punk leanings. By Blue Scepter and Junction respectively

 

[Lee de Parade]

*googlin*