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  • From: WWWhatsup <joly AT dti.net>
  • To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] The Carolyn Story
  • Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:02:43 -0500

Yes. It was originally designed by Megan Green, to benefit DJ Lepke,
who was in trouble with the law. I never heard about it annoying Bob
Marley. Perhaps you are thinking of "I shot the ferret".

Lepke btw, is Bob's brother in law.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Mike Appelstein <mike AT appelstein.com> wrote:
> Joly, did the Bad Brains get the idea for "I&I Survive" from your badge, the
> one that apparently annoyed Bob Marley?
>
> ------------------------------
>
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>
> A New York story..
>
>
> http://www.menright.com/pages/carolyn.html
>
> It was 1980, and the New York hardcore scene was beginning to coalesce
> around venues likeThe A7 Club in the East Village. Hardcore was a faster,
> heavier, more violent sound that grew out of the first-wave CBGB punk of the
> late '70s. It took a few years to define itself — nobody knew what the rules
> were, or how the style was supposed to sound.
>
> Carolyn was new in town, working for an answering service and as an
> occasional punk extra in clueless Hollywood versions of the Lower East Side.
> She spent the nights she wasn't working on the benches in Tompkins Square,
> or on the stoops around Stromboli's Pizza on St. Mark's Place. She didn't
> have enough cash to get into the clubs very often. Drink of choice: a
> forty-ounce Bud.
>
> (continues on link)
>
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