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Re: (TV) The Damned



All I remember that they were shitty. I really don't care what the pundits write
or say.

"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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