Re: [bomp] how the dancing broke down

["Vince Welsh" <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another example of a band that was goofy and over-hyped.

Two labels that stick with Henry Rollins to this very day.


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Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:42 AM
Subject: [bomp] how the dancing broke down


>
>> 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.....
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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