05-01-2014, 10:22 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Is this from a website, Cliff? I love all those bands too. I was a little too young to see any of them back in the day, though I grew up in the Los Angeles area.
It's a not-quite-rough draft of a particular corner of music history, stuff I've been sitting on for 34 years.
Thing is, to romanticize this subject is to kill its spirit in the marrow of its bones.
Some of this info first appeared on a hijacked Nutter thread over at the Ed Forum -- John Simkins booted the Nutter and my little off-topic nuggets went out with the bath water.
It was as perfectly non-romantic as I can imagine -- two days before the 50th, off-hand, accidental, I revealed closely held historical information only under personal attack on my biography...
And then gone.
So I've felt the obligation to make a fuller accounting, and thus this timeline.
Crass?
We loved Crass! Proto-hardcore to the max.
In the summer of 1980 I used a copy of the cover of Stations of the Crass to put out 10 weeks worth of my Alternative Top Ten -- it was a hundred of our fave songs listed on Stations' gray "wall".
I put a Go-Go's song at the top, just to keep a sense of humor about it...