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Subject: Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

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  • From: weasel walter <weaselw AT juno.com>
  • To: stewart.osborne AT lineone.net, typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] TypicalGirls Digest, Vol 196, Issue 1
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:01:38 -0700

a convincing argument in one regard, but then just take a listen to the
"tenement steps" album which sounds more like bloated prog than anything!
i love it, but . . . it's definitely more "mike oldfield" than it is
"punk".

ww

> >The Motors, in any case, are arguably not quite punk but power
> pop.
> >
> Agreed, although they do perhaps deserve a couple more punk points
> than you might think, because:
> 1) after leaving pub rockers Ducks Deluxe in early 1975 and before
>
> forming The Motors, Nick Garvey formed a band called The Snakes with
>
> (future Motors drummer) Ricky Slaughter and none other than Rob
> Gotobed, later of Wire;
> 2) after The Motors split up, Slaughter (orig. Richard Werner)
> became
> a member of Fallen Angels with his cousin, Knox of The Vibrators.
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