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  • From: "Mike Appelstein" <mike AT appelstein.com>
  • To: "'ALEX MURRAY-LESLIE'" <a AT chicksonspeed.com>
  • Cc: "'Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music \(Circa 1975-1980s\)'" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] THE SLITS REFORM FOR NEW SHOWS
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:22:45 -0600

Oh, definitely the Shaggs, as well as Half Japanese...but I'm thinking more
in the context of the mid-70s punk era (Roxy/100 Club/Slits/etc.)

mike


-----Original Message-----
From: ALEX MURRAY-LESLIE [mailto:a AT chicksonspeed.com]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 1:19 PM
To: mike AT appelstein.com; Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground
Music (Circa 1975-1980s)
Cc: Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa
1975-1980s)
Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] THE SLITS REFORM FOR NEW SHOWS

I would say the shags
How wonderful was that first record


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On 17 Nov 2008, at 20:06, "Mike Appelstein" <mike AT appelstein.com> wrote:

> This is why I love Typical Girls - here we have an argument
> regarding the
> Slits' first shows by people THAT WERE THERE. Where else on the web
> are we
> (slightly) younger post-punk obsessives going to get that?
>
> <<for some reason people like to think these girls just picked up
> instruments and jumped on stage. they practiced and wrote for months
> before
> performing.>>
>
> So is it time to retire the myth once and for all that the original
> punks
> "couldn't play?" From what I can hear, the guitar bands could play
> fine.
> Malcolm McLaren always promoted that myth about the Sex Pistols, but
> it's
> clear Cook, Matlock and especially Jones were perfectly accomplished
> players. Perhaps, in the mid-1970s, musicians were still so
> enamored of
> extended guitar solos that listeners weren't used to a simpler
> approach. I
> mean, the Sheffield bands like Cab Volt were using synths they
> "couldn't
> play" a la Pere Ubu or Eno-era Roxy Music...but I tend to think
> that's a
> whole different scene and philosophy.
>
> Were there any bands that truly, obviously "couldn't play" at their
> first
> shows? The Flowers of Romance? Early Germs?
>
> - mike
> mike AT appelstein.com
> http://www.appelstein.com/blog
>
>
>
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