Punk was a different scene in NY..it was pretty varied. Kinda grew out of the the Beat/ folk thing in that everyone wanted to be a poet and there was some glam in there as well of course with bands like the New York Dolls. Richard Hell wroke some great lyirics..I place him in the tradition of the beat poets as I did with Lou Reed. "betrayal takes two - who did it to who - I mean, not to be cut by your dull point of view' I really dug the way he played with words back then. It was a good time for people with prose to put it to music because you could just use a few chords and get out there with it. The Ramones were more in the garage 2-3 minute pop band idea keep the music and the words as basic as possible and just belt it out as quick as you could.
yeah alot of the great punk songs we all know and love come from rocket from the tombs, sonic reducer, aint it fun, life stinks, and search and destroy are originally rocket tunes.
Will check it out, thank you very much. it's strange, cause I never came across the RFTT name while reading about The Stooges. I know the name, but not that they wrote Search & Destroy.
. you know RFTT wasnt exactly a studio band but it should be easy enough to find a copy of the "day the earth met rocket from the tombs." or if not easy enough then definetely worth it.
actually rocket from the tombs was even before any of those. and from cleveland ohio. dead boys came from rocket from the tombs. (to keep it in perspective) so literally punk was born in cleveland ohio.
I looked it all up, and the RFTT didn't wrote these songs. When Iggy and Williamson played those songs the RFTT wasn't even formed. Do you believe yourself?
just started listening to him. really good band
Helen put that very well! Richard you had a great gig for to short of a time. You still owe me twenty dollars, lol. Great song and great days!
Robert Quine! RIP, guitar monster.
I listened to the woman.
The heartbeat.
Yah.
Très bien , c'étaient les bons moments ! Merci!
i really lov this song its so classic punk
Punk was a different scene in NY..it was pretty varied. Kinda grew out of the the Beat/ folk thing in that everyone wanted to be a poet and there was some glam in there as well of course with bands like the New York Dolls. Richard Hell wroke some great lyirics..I place him in the tradition of the beat poets as I did with Lou Reed. "betrayal takes two - who did it to who - I mean, not to be cut by your dull point of view' I really dug the way he played with words back then. It was a good time for people with prose to put it to music because you could just use a few chords and get out there with it. The Ramones were more in the garage 2-3 minute pop band idea keep the music and the words as basic as possible and just belt it out as quick as you could.
punk is from everywhere people not just england not just the us punk came from 50s rock and roll they got the idea from it
yeah alot of the great punk songs we all know and love come from rocket from the tombs, sonic reducer, aint it fun, life stinks, and search and destroy are originally rocket tunes.
Check out the CBGB episode from The Heavy with Andrew and Don podcast. Great look back at the 70’s New York punk scene
Both the Pistols and the Clash freely admitted being directly inspired by the Ramones.
never heard of this guy b4, but he is safe
Will check it out, thank you very much. it's strange, cause I never came across the RFTT name while reading about The Stooges. I know the name, but not that they wrote Search & Destroy.
i'm still in crazy town.
Mad Max look-alike county, bluegrass, blues style.
does anyone have a louder version... this is a great video but it is so quite
... but this sounds awesome to me!
im dead all these comments are from 8+ years ago
Someone give him some of the money for his punk look we know the Brits got rich
not originally. remake. awesome remake.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders brought me here.... :-/
Nice, but I'd have liked to hear the rest of Quine's solo.
. you know RFTT wasnt exactly a studio band but it should be easy enough to find a copy of the "day the earth met rocket from the tombs." or if not easy enough then definetely worth it.
Not Search and Destroy, that was Iggy & The Stooges.
@blechtman you probably do.
actually rocket from the tombs was even before any of those. and from cleveland ohio. dead boys came from rocket from the tombs. (to keep it in perspective) so literally punk was born in cleveland ohio.
The Voidoids playing CBGBs, looks around '75 or '76. Nihilist undercurrent of punk" Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, all those guys.
Do you mean the CBGB's (club)?
of course thats not to say that really the punk movement didnt have its birth at country bluegrass and blues and other music from the underground.
Are you serious? You mean The Stooges remade a RFTT-song? Do you know where I can find the original version, then?
do you beleive yourself? strange comment. do you beleive yourself?
haha an early incarnation of GG Allin at 2:30 ?????
IMO, Johnny Thunders blew all of them away, England, NY and every other in between.
I looked it all up, and the RFTT didn't wrote these songs. When Iggy and Williamson played those songs the RFTT wasn't even formed. Do you believe yourself?
umm, that's country not county (CBGB's)
i belong to the BORING generation.
Nihilism at its worst, great song though.