Comments on: Video: Death Has Been Called The First Punk Band. Now They’re In The Smithsonian. http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/ WAMU 88.5's New Music Site Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 By: Jimmy Calhoun http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-1342 Thu, 02 Aug 2018 22:48:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-1342 I don’t. I just replied to a comment of his.

]]> By: Charlotte Smith http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-1339 Sun, 29 Jul 2018 01:15:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-1339 How do you know Mark??

]]> By: 2017 diy http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-1254 Thu, 18 May 2017 18:28:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-1254 David was right. Vinyl diehards had begun to track down Death’s recordings. Then Bobby’s children caught on. What they heard stunned them — they could scarcely believe their dad had played in a band that sounded like punk before punk existed.

]]> By: Jimmy Calhoun http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-1209 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:50:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-1209 Agree that they weren’t *the* first. Even if you consider the MC5 more hard rock/proto-metal, and the Dolls more glam – both of which are highly debatable – there’s still the Stooges. If ‘Fun House’ (released 1970) isn’t a punk record, then I don’t know what to say.

]]> By: Jimmy Calhoun http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-1208 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:47:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-1208 “death was just an average rock band – nothing more.”

Sorry, but I really can’t agree with that. In terms of historical importance *or* musical quality.

]]> By: Ralph Arsenton http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-805 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:39:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-805 they note they wanted to be like mc5, etc. and listened, watched and learned from these bands. to say they came up with this on their own is ludicrous. you may want to read the comments again and note what they said about influences and what they wanted to be. your comments are being a tad revisionist as you claim death had no knowledge of the stooges and mc5.

like elvis, death owes much to others. death was mediocre and did not gain traction in Detroit because of that. death’s contributions are what exactly? atypical. doing something more unusual.

death failed in the end because they were just another “cover” band to Detroit music fans. death is not worthy of all this acclaim.

]]> By: Ralph Arsenton http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-804 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:16:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-804 punk.. nope.
iggy.. ny dolls….vu…..and others were “punk”. death sounds like an amalgamation of the detroit rock bands of the era…
i can hear grand funk. death was just an average rock band – nothing more. all the hubbub over them is puzzling – so many other bands are far more deserving of the attention that has been given to them.

]]> By: WWW.ARCHAICAUDIO.COM WWW.ARCHA http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-670 Sat, 26 Sep 2015 00:12:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-670 Henry Mancini 1959-peter gunn- first punk song. Can death actually play their instruments? If so they ain’t punk. Why would any band brag about being punk?- its just really crappy rocknroll -all attitude- no talent. The stooges were way ahead of death. Iggy pop today plays great rock music. Root boy slim and sex change band pre 1978- best rock band of its time.

]]> By: Jason House http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-664 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:45:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-664 I see what you’re saying. I was just trying to make the point that it wasn’t them that were claiming to be the first punk band ever. Just because the person writing the article didn’t mention The Stooges, doesn’t mean that it’s intended to be revisionist.

]]> By: Mark Montalban http://bandwidth.wamu.org/video-death-has-been-called-the-first-punk-band-now-theyre-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-663 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:30:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=56424#comment-663 I’m on the young side but I knew some of the radical activists coming from Detroit to organize in Bridgeport and Waterbury, CT in the early seventies. They were promoting some of the late 60’s and early 70’s punk music. WPKN-FM, carried some of it and I did get copies of the Fifth Estate (alternative weekly) out of Detroit area. The term punk rock was actually a political screw the system set of words. It was that brief period between uncontrolled rebellion and what we called corporate rock. I’m glad Death is getting it’s due and the remaining band members who played Regae with Lambsbread here in Vermont and taken up the punk scene again, and that some of their kids are doing the punk band, Rough Francis, and yes it seems like the only few black musicians that got into this music. But, and again, but as I’ve been actually told off, please let’s look at the punk music scene around Detroit during this whole time period.

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