[bomp] how the dancing broke down

[ItsBoss9@xxxxxxx]

> I especially hated Black 
> Flag, but they became the big thing locally... I
> wanted no part of that. 

I can think of FAR worse bands.....

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I videotaped this thing off of some KABC magazine show back in 1980 about 
violence in Punk clubs, and it primarily featured Black Flag at the Starwood.  I 
do feel the band was responsible for a paradigm shift in the behavior of it's 
audience, as do a bunch of the people who are interviewed in Brendan Mullen's 
book WE GOT THE NEUTRON BOMB (hell... I'm forgetting, is that the title?... 
it's the one before his Darby Crash book).

I just remember people picking each other up off the floor after every song, 
after pogoing, in the early days.  That wasn't gonna happen at a Black Flag 
show, and there's the diff.  The early days were intense, and kinetic, but not 
bullshit.  Bouncing off each other, there was total madness but not a 
vindictive swipe was made, anywhere I'd been, anyway.  That was gone forever after 
Black Flag.

Dom

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