Re: (TV) The Damned

[eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>]

don't wanna dis the dead boys TOO much, but there's a
universe of (qualatative) difference twixt they & the
damned....
"young, loud & snotty" has a coupla great songs but the
damned have more than a coupla GREAT LPs.
from many accts, the damned were also a huge influence on
alotta the early west coast punk (specifically LA) bands cos
they were one of the 1st & only UK punk groups to play there
(the whiskey, i think).
& to go further with this damned tangent, i gotta say i
prefer post-brian james damned, tho when sensible left,
things went downhill.
i'd say "machine gun etiquette" & "the black album" (going
to put that on right now, in fact) are 2 of the best back to
back rock & roll recs ever.

"Philip P. Obbard" wrote:
> 
> That's interesting... I don't have it handy, but in Clinton Heylin's book FROM
> THE VELVETS TO THE VOIDOIDS, I believe he writes that the NY "rock" bands were
> blown away by the Damned, who were funnier, wrote better songs, and played
> faster than many of the CBGBs bands (specifically, the Dead Boys, in the
> paragraph Heylin where mentions it). I guess he didn't say if they played
> "well" though!!
> 
> --Philip
> 
> --- "J. GERMAINE" <jpg@sirius.com> wrote:
> > I was at the first CBGBS Damned show in '77 and they couldn't play their
> > instruments. I bet Verlaine objected to their lack of talent.
> 
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