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joe strummer is dead. the clash made sounds very different from any thing i had ever heard. london calling is definately a top ten-er for me. only a few days ago when i learned of his collaboration with bono and dave stewart, i got really excited. now i am sad.
Below are a couple entries i wrote but never posted, at the time they didn't seem to have a point. well, they still don't but the death of joe strummer make them topical.
punk seems to be alive and well in toronto canada (recent biz trip). i dont know how i feel about this. the punk movement was an explosion meant to have no future. sort of ironic if you consider punk is now a quarter century old (if we agree it began with iggy, mc5s, ramones pistols and clash).
every generation has it's music, punk belongs to my generation. punk was designed to self destruct. the kids in toronto are punks by definition, but is that really posible? what shocked in 1979 seems tired today. the clothes are tired. the attitude is tired. the anger is tired.
television commercials use iggy pop and the buzzcocks music to sell cars. it confuses me. is that the worst thing that could happen to punk or punk's greatest f-you (corporate america paying huge sums of money for usage rights)?
i am unsure where i am going with all this. what it really boils down to, is that i am a grumpy old man, irritated with todays youth. just like my parents and grandparents.
i recently saw frank black at the gypsy tea room. a few weeks earlier i saw x at trees. for both shows, i was very curious about the audience they would draw. where have all the punks gone? i am happy to say the punks showed up to both. i am also happy to say they smell much better than they did in the early eighties. i guess we all grow up.