@lifeisadeadend It didn't start in anyone place, no one starts a genre because a genre is a collection of music. example. there was no funk when little richard showed up but your honestly you're gonna say he created it with his fucking saxaphone give me a break. It takes years to mold a musical form into one detailed group. And you can't say "the who" started a movement that took hundreds of bands to progress. its like saying that run dmc started hip hop I MEAN REALLY!
@lifeisadeadend You're more or less falling for the exact same trap he's trying to explain. The Who are important in punk history, but as LookingForTheUpsides points out, nearly every group discussed here predates The Who. This is about the origins of punk. There is British punk, and its good punk, but punk was first developed in NYC.
For those of you who don't know . . . the song is titled "The History of Punk On the Lower East Side, 1950 - 1975", so really it's a very small niche in the history of punk music. Jeff Lewis is incredible :)
@wakingconsciousness 1970, excuse me. my point is that Jeffery Lewis is claiming to talk about the transition from folk to punk, but is expressing this from the folk music side where as i come from the punk side...our different backgrounds cause an impass in a historical context...i don't know...i was drunk 3 months ago, i'm drunk now.
You painted a picture of American Proto-punk simply being adopted by England. The UK had a proto-punk scene of it's own of mods, skinheads, ska, and pub rock.
Great presentation though. I'd like to see this in a graphical format with diagrams, timelines, and pictures of bands and album art.
@KantorekBaumerB14 I guess the point he was really trying to make is that almost anyone thinks that the genre of punk rock wouldn't exist if it were for the Sex Pistols, when the truth is Sex Pistols were merely the most famous of the genre. Nowadays, anyone who is the most famous in the genre (for whatever the reason may be) is accused of setting the trend.
I just had to do the history of Hardcore and Post-hardcore from 1979-1990 and it still takes me 17 minutes to do the presentation. Maybe I should take this route, he's even fit more songs in.
i think his dates are a little off...jonathan richman & the modern lovers started in 1950...they were punk...and what about the ramones...and the mohawk was the hairstyle of the bassets in television...or so Mr. Mclaren said, and television played with VU...other punk fashion styles started then too...if one was to be so bold, you could even say punk started from woody guthrie...even though he's listed as folk/country in your local record shop.
I agree that UK tried to take all the credit for "punk" but you still have to respect Crass, Zounds, Flux the pink Indians, they had something to say about this fucked world with thatcher-ism happening around that time and what not, really at the end of the day who gives a fuck who started "punk", what matters is that the most influential and amazing bands have come from this movement, -pop punk :D
@Starvoid7 I enjoy some British first wave ('75-'78), but I have to agree there was an essence lost there after the Pistols. It all started with bands trying to bring FUN and energy back to a rock world ruled by hippies and bloated guitar excess. Then it caught on in the UK, was revamped into something far more serious and politically-charged. That led to "Anarcho-punk", and all was lost.
yes. agreed! I like American punk, and it's roots cause it's realistic, raw, and very artsy and diverse.
British POST PUNK was awesome. the fall, the raincoats, joy division...those bands lifted themselves above that empty and retarded ''exploited'' and shit like that.
American Hardcore was a Zillion times better then the British.
Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minutemen, MDC, Minor Threat...
@Starvoid7 I'm totally with you on American punk-like you said, raw, artsy, diverse. But I have to say that there was potential in the 77 Brit scene- particularly in bands like The Damned, The Stranglers, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Wire, 999. These bands were not political and self-important like most Britpunk. On the contrary they had a humor and free-spirited creativity more in-line with US punk. If you havent heard them, I hope you give them a chance because they show what Britpunk could have been
@Starvoid7 And yes, early US Hardcore kicked ass, especially the Misfits. I mean they were "Hardcore" but still had a early punk-like creativeness and humor. Groundbreaking, as were The Germs. When you think about it there isn't really one groundbreaking or iconic Band from British anarcho/street punk.
And yea, I could go forever about post-punk, LOVE it.
@xreddragonx well dude if you cant think of one British iconic punk band you need to do some research and listen to some other British anarcho punk , like AOA, Conflict, The Mob, Zounds, Dirt, Sub humans, Amebix, Null and Void, Omega tribe, Karma Sutra, The Apostles, Anthrax, Icons of Filth, Oi polloi, Toxic waste....really the list could go on, need to open yours a bit more before making a statement like that :)
@xreddragonx Completely disagree, better than a band being put together by some clever cunt who wanted to make money, the anarcho era pushed things like independent labels and free gigs or paying next to nothing to watch these bands, I really respect anarcho punk for what its done and how its developed, I think anarcho punk stood out a lot within punk music. Gotta love it and respect it
@ClinicalSlap Anarcho-punk simply shouldn't have been called punk, since it was a betrayal or severe misunderstanding of earlier punk which messed up it's legacy entirely. This whole perception of childish rebellion, edgy fashion, meatheaded "scene"/concert violence and preachiness that is "punk" came from the anarchist shift.
@xreddragonx Original punk wasn't like that, and not only do people forget, they sometimes question if it was even punk (bands like the Ramones). Of course that whole anti-music diversity attitude in the later punks also didn't help there. (The same guys who later had no problem mixing Metal into the genre of all things).
@xreddragonx That's a fair argument, It shouldn't have been called punk but I don't think it was a misunderstanding of earlier punk for the simple reason that it was a completely different diverse sound, and bands like Crass wanted to divide them selves from the "punk" genre. I will admittedly say that it didn't work out for them in a great way lol
@xreddragonx But I still think Anarcho-punk is the best thing to happen to "punk" because instead of talking about drugs, booze, and songs about being bored, Anarcho punk took on a different medium with tracks like The Mob - Witch Hunt
@xreddragonx , which made you stop and think wtf is going on with this fucked world, just think it gave people a knew incite and gave people who thought the same thing with as I mention again the miners strike and brought many people together and that's why I respect "anarcho punk"
:) Sorry had to post this 3 times because it wouldn't let me post it all me :)
@adamlinks The Sex pistols were not much more than a fashion boy band managed and produced (not musically produced but like a product being produced) by Malcolm. If you are going to mention any brittish punk band, why not buzzcocks? or the fall?
@eggpuck Because of the music. They knew how to play! + it was just like... psychedelic mosquitoes. 1977 & 1966 linked together. Sex Pistols were really the psychedelic and punk gigs joined together. Buzzcocks and the Falls couldn't do that so clearly. I remember it whell.
@adamlinks In what way wasnt The Stooges part of the psychedelic rock wave and fused it with "punk gigs" similar, but a lot more genuine, than anything ever staged by malcom? And it wasnt even the greedy bastards first time either, he fucked around with the dolls as well who were ten times what the sex pistols ever was. Sid and the fucking cult around that guy...
@eggpuck I met Malcom one evening at Castelbajac's birthday and we had a little chat about what would be the future of the rock scene..."A mixture in between Mexican guitars and Drum 'n bass" he said... Ha! That never happened and then he died. For me the punk scene started in London in 1870 when the "filles de joie" used to wear flashy coloured wigs and used to be called "PUNKS". ...
@eggpuck ... then in the early 60's some great bands played in Las Vegas sex shops (sound and stage equipped ) and were surrounded by many old photos of these London's girls. So they played Punk music, mostly garage rock'n roll. (Sky Saxon told me that one night and I believed him!)
Well done on completely missing the point there mate, if you were paying attention you might have noticed that i was mocking the 'thumb whoring' in the post i was replying to. In future you might want to actually read the comments before hammering out insults on your keyboard and making yourself look like a pleb.
Fantastic, so now I find out pUnK is not British and to think, I still have not got over the 4th of July (must you keep rubbing it in every year?) ;-) Any chance our Royal Family are really yours too? Please feel free to take them, they come with lots of tourists and tourists are money ;-) Jeffrey Lewis is a very talented man and I really enjoyed this video. Thank You
@noglet76 no way jeff is a really nice cool guy. i've met him twice and he's really friendly and polite he's signed comics for me and given me the time of day to talk to me many times through emails
He forgot about the MC5, the Rationals, Last heard, band's like that. But I guess the Stooges comment at least reconizes them, stylisticly. Other than that, great. Well, except it wasn't the end... Haha.
Those who want to hate on this guy oughtta look in the mirror. What have you done that's any better? His name will be better known as time goes on...if you want your music to matter get to writing.
jeff lewis is trying to create something simple and great and raw and meaningful, his crass covers are great though the original, of course, are better. blah blah blah he doesn't do drugs he has songs about how he doesn't. research.
@SnoBlackMelbkour actually, he doesn't "The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane" really was the last time he did acid, and two years after that song was released, he came out with the album "It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through" which has a song "No LSD Tonight" which is about how everyone thinks he does acid when he actually doesnt all because of "The Last Time I Did Acid."
@81bigmark YEAH what A IDIOT!!! I shouldn't talk, though. I do lots and lots of drugs! They made me so stupid that I don't even know to use an infront of a word that starts with a vowel. Oh wait, that's you, you little prick. Why don't you go listen to your Justin Bieber CDs and leave the music to the cool kids.
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@wimp10 its still shit and and he is still a cunt in ive seen your faggy little homo vid on your page thats even worse than this tard you pair of rejects your probably humping each other.
Even though protopunk and punk rock creators were American by birth, it really doesn't matter. Punk had a purpose and the discourse shouldn't be convoluted with something as pointless as US vs UK. That's old school early 1900s American isolationist bull shit. Think of Punk Rock as it's own state fighting a war on two fronts, rather than claiming ownership of something that cannot nor should be "owned,"
@ my previous comment. Don't look on the UK Punk Rock scene with disdain is what I mean. It's all a part of the same thing. Punk should just be left with its dignity in the annals of history. If a real revival of the last push of Punk Rock as the DIY movement in the 1980s occurred it would be shut down so fast by police that it would not be long before you would only be able to have an online community that will inevitably be saturated with pop-culture poison or just die... again!
That was really good, I swear, I should show this to some of the idiots who have no idea what punk is and don't care enough to read, and listen to the music. "Here's PUNK in 8 minutes.
@Pausize It's not hard at all really, it's only 8 minutes, you just follow a trail, one thing leads to another. You can relate each thing to the last thing. It's easy to memorize something like this. I think he has some Jew in him too. So there is that.
he mentions at the beginning that is singing only about its development on the lower east side. seems like a a narrow view, but he is true to his word.
I think a lot of what became punk really originated from Screamin Jay Hawkins, Bo Diddley and Link Wray. To a lesser extent some of the wilder rock-abilly guys like Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochrane.
Maybe Jerry Lee Lewis was the 1st punk.
This was a great video, but it wasn't even close to a history of punk
@TehGuitarMan english punk bands may have `borrowed ` from the US bands but they certainly acknowledged the influence and added a huge amount of their originality.
It's easy to take credit for a genre with hindsight! The same claim (different roots) could be made for any other contemporary musical genre. Nobody is denying the roots of what we know as Punk Rock - emphasis on the word Rock - but there has to be a definitive point in the time-line where people can say that was the start. The start was undeniably Mclaren and the Pistols. Punk Rock the genre did not exist anywhere before.
Yeah sure, go into any record shop on the 'Lower East Side' between '1950 and 1975' and ask for the Punk Rock section and he'll look at you stupid. What you have here is the roots and the seeds of the genre. It was Mclaren who took the samples, developed the concept and delivered the world Punk Rock. Undeniable.
I just downloaded the anthology of american folk and the holy rounders cause of this video. I'll get some david peel. I was already faamiliar with the rest.
i have an ex with teeth like that and for some reason i found them to be absolutely adorable (except for the nicotine and coffee stains). sometimes i miss his gap toothed smile. probably strange, but true!
When That Great Ship Went Down - W. & V. Smith Euphoria - The Holy Modal Rounders Waiting for the Man - Lou Reed New Amphetamine Shriek - The Fugs Nothing - The Fugs White Cat Heat - The Godz Waiting for the Man - The Velvet Underground Mother Where is My Father - David Peel 1969 - The Stooges Lower East Side - David Peel I Want to Kill You - David Peel Psychotic Reaction - Count Five Gloria - Patti Smith Personality Crisis - New York Dolls Blank Generation - Richard Hell
Dr. Ron Paul 2012. He is such a punk and wants to destroy the status quo!
End The Fed!
Dr. Ron Paul 2012
Error934 4 days ago
"kinda defines when stupid becomes smart" best of the best
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Being patriotic isn't punk rock.
zombiekidbug 2 months ago
@zombiekidbug Punk rock is having no rules. A punk band can be patriotic if they want.
WingnutDishwasher 2 months ago
holy shit these are real bands
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This man is a god...
clamstorm 3 months ago
true musical comic book genius
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that's why, no one has ever heard of anti-folk
pdidyking 4 months ago
i never expected the ending ..hahahah...now that is honestly quality comedy.
mancheromanchero 5 months ago
No matter what music you like, this is fucking talent folks.
cmomofilm 5 months ago
This video have introduced me to so many awesome proto-punk bands!
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hey everybody, what about the Monks??1960 Germany?
juniperhall1 6 months ago
@lifeisadeadend It didn't start in anyone place, no one starts a genre because a genre is a collection of music. example. there was no funk when little richard showed up but your honestly you're gonna say he created it with his fucking saxaphone give me a break. It takes years to mold a musical form into one detailed group. And you can't say "the who" started a movement that took hundreds of bands to progress. its like saying that run dmc started hip hop I MEAN REALLY!
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this kids a genius
ThomasBCullen i couldnt agree more
punkandreggaelover 6 months ago
@lifeisadeadend You're more or less falling for the exact same trap he's trying to explain. The Who are important in punk history, but as LookingForTheUpsides points out, nearly every group discussed here predates The Who. This is about the origins of punk. There is British punk, and its good punk, but punk was first developed in NYC.
magicemu 7 months ago
@lifeisadeadend -Did you hear what he said at the start? "Punk rock on the lower east side" He's only focusing on New York.
Bakersfieldsucks777 8 months ago
@lifeisadeadend you're forgetting that the first song in this video is from 1950. The who wasn't formed until 1964.
LookingForTheUpsides 8 months ago
this kids a genius
ThomasBCullen 8 months ago
@lifeisadeadend shut the fuck up and nobody cares thanks
ThomasBCullen 8 months ago
his voice reminds me of John Linnell of TMBG
miniraptorX 9 months ago
Could someone list the all the Artists he talks about please?
MikeMikeo 9 months ago
For those of you who don't know . . . the song is titled "The History of Punk On the Lower East Side, 1950 - 1975", so really it's a very small niche in the history of punk music. Jeff Lewis is incredible :)
rachelwedig 9 months ago
@wakingconsciousness 1970, excuse me. my point is that Jeffery Lewis is claiming to talk about the transition from folk to punk, but is expressing this from the folk music side where as i come from the punk side...our different backgrounds cause an impass in a historical context...i don't know...i was drunk 3 months ago, i'm drunk now.
tazmon122 9 months ago
You painted a picture of American Proto-punk simply being adopted by England. The UK had a proto-punk scene of it's own of mods, skinheads, ska, and pub rock.
Great presentation though. I'd like to see this in a graphical format with diagrams, timelines, and pictures of bands and album art.
jbgandhi2 10 months ago 5
@jbgandhi2 yeh somebody get me a flow chart.
punkrocksowhat 9 months ago
i like jeffrey lewis but i dont think hes being particularly fair on english punk by saying it basically just stole everything
KantorekBaumerB14 10 months ago
@KantorekBaumerB14 I guess the point he was really trying to make is that almost anyone thinks that the genre of punk rock wouldn't exist if it were for the Sex Pistols, when the truth is Sex Pistols were merely the most famous of the genre. Nowadays, anyone who is the most famous in the genre (for whatever the reason may be) is accused of setting the trend.
interpolluter29 10 months ago
you are a fucking gimp SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Fuck i hate you. You're such a fake dickhead.
BobGaveBirth 10 months ago
I just had to do the history of Hardcore and Post-hardcore from 1979-1990 and it still takes me 17 minutes to do the presentation. Maybe I should take this route, he's even fit more songs in.
sonicwingnut 11 months ago
@sonicwingnut you should put that on youtube i would love to see it
ghotidude 10 months ago
Give Lewis a Musicology Honorary Degree. This is a fantastic tour of history ...and of many parts of my record collection! Amazing job Jeffrey.
Congrats. This may serve to turn people on to some of the great artists your survey.
1969wasgreat 1 year ago
56 people are communists.
This guys kickass.
Anikazam 1 year ago
@Anikazam I'm a communist, and I love Jeff :)
ironhenge7 11 months ago
lol then it went over to england and england stole credit for the whole thing
fuckyou11275 1 year ago
those teeth are pretty punk.
ilovechairmanmeow 1 year ago
Impressive word skills. Would help if he were more interesting as a player or singer.
DrCoyoteBanjo 1 year ago
SPEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK SLOOOOOOWLY!!!
boylikehill 1 year ago
@boylikehill LISTENFASTER!
Laviedusurrealisme 10 months ago
56 suckers in tha house
TabeKat12 1 year ago
i think his dates are a little off...jonathan richman & the modern lovers started in 1950...they were punk...and what about the ramones...and the mohawk was the hairstyle of the bassets in television...or so Mr. Mclaren said, and television played with VU...other punk fashion styles started then too...if one was to be so bold, you could even say punk started from woody guthrie...even though he's listed as folk/country in your local record shop.
tazmon122 1 year ago
3:12 XD
BORNTORUNANDALIVEMAN 1 year ago
this guy is soooooo muc better than david peel
njlacrosse9 1 year ago
i watch this honestly every day, and i never get tired.
LouiseIsGlitteryJunk 1 year ago 29
@LouiseIsGlitteryJunk ME TOOOO
bunnyrabbott 6 months ago
I have nine balls! Count them! Nine balls!
fatesaccomplice 1 year ago
i loooooooooooove justin bieber :D deal with it
MrPocketGroover 1 year ago
Brilliant!!!
adamlinks 1 year ago
Genres evolve, punk changed, deal with it.
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umayanarosy 1 year ago
very interesting way to learn about history of music., all taught in rhyme!
themoonwhispers 1 year ago
hat der spackungen, oder was is mit dem los?
sunnysmiley4ever 1 year ago
I agree that UK tried to take all the credit for "punk" but you still have to respect Crass, Zounds, Flux the pink Indians, they had something to say about this fucked world with thatcher-ism happening around that time and what not, really at the end of the day who gives a fuck who started "punk", what matters is that the most influential and amazing bands have come from this movement, -pop punk :D
ClinicalSlap 1 year ago
Oh my god, I love this! This guy is a genius!
avitalthealien 1 year ago
Who`s originally played Oh mother, where is my father?
TheAmadeuss 1 year ago
This guy is fucking insane and fucking awesome.
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@SeanIsaacBillings "Reminds me of Syd Barrett, he once mentioned that the Velvet Underground were the American Version of his music"
Amazing. :)
xreddragonx 1 year ago
his ver of Euphoria - The Holy Modal Rounders is way better.
Aleksux 1 year ago
I hate British punk! - put all the negative stereotypes to the music and made of punk a fashion trend! - thumbs up if you agree!
Starvoid7 1 year ago 4
@Starvoid7 I enjoy some British first wave ('75-'78), but I have to agree there was an essence lost there after the Pistols. It all started with bands trying to bring FUN and energy back to a rock world ruled by hippies and bloated guitar excess. Then it caught on in the UK, was revamped into something far more serious and politically-charged. That led to "Anarcho-punk", and all was lost.
xreddragonx 1 year ago
@xreddragonx
yes. agreed! I like American punk, and it's roots cause it's realistic, raw, and very artsy and diverse.
British POST PUNK was awesome. the fall, the raincoats, joy division...those bands lifted themselves above that empty and retarded ''exploited'' and shit like that.
American Hardcore was a Zillion times better then the British.
Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minutemen, MDC, Minor Threat...
the Brits got NOTHING on punk! =)
Starvoid7 1 year ago 2
@Starvoid7 I'm totally with you on American punk-like you said, raw, artsy, diverse. But I have to say that there was potential in the 77 Brit scene- particularly in bands like The Damned, The Stranglers, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Wire, 999. These bands were not political and self-important like most Britpunk. On the contrary they had a humor and free-spirited creativity more in-line with US punk. If you havent heard them, I hope you give them a chance because they show what Britpunk could have been
xreddragonx 1 year ago
@Starvoid7 And yes, early US Hardcore kicked ass, especially the Misfits. I mean they were "Hardcore" but still had a early punk-like creativeness and humor. Groundbreaking, as were The Germs. When you think about it there isn't really one groundbreaking or iconic Band from British anarcho/street punk.
And yea, I could go forever about post-punk, LOVE it.
xreddragonx 1 year ago
@xreddragonx well dude if you cant think of one British iconic punk band you need to do some research and listen to some other British anarcho punk , like AOA, Conflict, The Mob, Zounds, Dirt, Sub humans, Amebix, Null and Void, Omega tribe, Karma Sutra, The Apostles, Anthrax, Icons of Filth, Oi polloi, Toxic waste....really the list could go on, need to open yours a bit more before making a statement like that :)
ClinicalSlap 1 year ago
@ClinicalSlap You're listing many bands, but none I'd consider iconic. I do like Zounds though.
xreddragonx 1 year ago
@xreddragonx Completely disagree, better than a band being put together by some clever cunt who wanted to make money, the anarcho era pushed things like independent labels and free gigs or paying next to nothing to watch these bands, I really respect anarcho punk for what its done and how its developed, I think anarcho punk stood out a lot within punk music. Gotta love it and respect it
ClinicalSlap 1 year ago
@ClinicalSlap Anarcho-punk simply shouldn't have been called punk, since it was a betrayal or severe misunderstanding of earlier punk which messed up it's legacy entirely. This whole perception of childish rebellion, edgy fashion, meatheaded "scene"/concert violence and preachiness that is "punk" came from the anarchist shift.
xreddragonx 1 year ago
@xreddragonx Original punk wasn't like that, and not only do people forget, they sometimes question if it was even punk (bands like the Ramones). Of course that whole anti-music diversity attitude in the later punks also didn't help there. (The same guys who later had no problem mixing Metal into the genre of all things).
xreddragonx 1 year ago
@xreddragonx That's a fair argument, It shouldn't have been called punk but I don't think it was a misunderstanding of earlier punk for the simple reason that it was a completely different diverse sound, and bands like Crass wanted to divide them selves from the "punk" genre. I will admittedly say that it didn't work out for them in a great way lol
ClinicalSlap 1 year ago
@xreddragonx But I still think Anarcho-punk is the best thing to happen to "punk" because instead of talking about drugs, booze, and songs about being bored, Anarcho punk took on a different medium with tracks like The Mob - Witch Hunt
ClinicalSlap 1 year ago
@xreddragonx , which made you stop and think wtf is going on with this fucked world, just think it gave people a knew incite and gave people who thought the same thing with as I mention again the miners strike and brought many people together and that's why I respect "anarcho punk"
:) Sorry had to post this 3 times because it wouldn't let me post it all me :)
ClinicalSlap 1 year ago
@Starvoid7 Yeah but The Sex Pistols!!!!
adamlinks 1 year ago
@adamlinks The Sex pistols were not much more than a fashion boy band managed and produced (not musically produced but like a product being produced) by Malcolm. If you are going to mention any brittish punk band, why not buzzcocks? or the fall?
eggpuck 1 year ago
@eggpuck Because of the music. They knew how to play! + it was just like... psychedelic mosquitoes. 1977 & 1966 linked together. Sex Pistols were really the psychedelic and punk gigs joined together. Buzzcocks and the Falls couldn't do that so clearly. I remember it whell.
adamlinks 1 year ago
@adamlinks In what way wasnt The Stooges part of the psychedelic rock wave and fused it with "punk gigs" similar, but a lot more genuine, than anything ever staged by malcom? And it wasnt even the greedy bastards first time either, he fucked around with the dolls as well who were ten times what the sex pistols ever was. Sid and the fucking cult around that guy...
eggpuck 1 year ago
@eggpuck I met Malcom one evening at Castelbajac's birthday and we had a little chat about what would be the future of the rock scene..."A mixture in between Mexican guitars and Drum 'n bass" he said... Ha! That never happened and then he died. For me the punk scene started in London in 1870 when the "filles de joie" used to wear flashy coloured wigs and used to be called "PUNKS". ...
adamlinks 1 year ago
@eggpuck ... then in the early 60's some great bands played in Las Vegas sex shops (sound and stage equipped ) and were surrounded by many old photos of these London's girls. So they played Punk music, mostly garage rock'n roll. (Sky Saxon told me that one night and I believed him!)
adamlinks 1 year ago
@adamlinks That sounds believable. Do love the brittish sound but not what common people believe is the english sound. How was saxon otherwise?
eggpuck 1 year ago
@Starvoid7
Yeah that comment really captures the essence of Punk, "agree with me and thumbs up!"
MONTBLANCFC 1 year ago
@MONTBLANCFC You fucking evil thumb whore. Shut the fuck up with your idiocy. Fuck I hate your type.
ArmoredFelix 11 months ago
@ArmoredFelix
Well done on completely missing the point there mate, if you were paying attention you might have noticed that i was mocking the 'thumb whoring' in the post i was replying to. In future you might want to actually read the comments before hammering out insults on your keyboard and making yourself look like a pleb.
MONTBLANCFC 11 months ago
@MONTBLANCFC Mocking it by imitation eh? Clever.
ArmoredFelix 11 months ago
Dude, this was awesome.
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Elliott42871 1 year ago
brilliant stuff..
phoenixcube 1 year ago
i dont mean this in a bad way i love his music, but is he like autistic?
foamy1graff 1 year ago 2
TOO FAST!
SuperDsffdsf 1 year ago
UP AGAINST THE WALL MOTHER FUCKER LOL lets get a fuckin JERFREY LEWIS TATTOO ON OUR TITTIES.. <3
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Awesome, but please, tune your guitar! (punk, folk or not--)
rincefidleir 1 year ago
Awesome, but please, tune your guitar!
rincefidleir 1 year ago
@rincefidleir naw fuck that tune shit lol i still think untuned gtars is like nasty punk rock haha idk thats just me ;)
aafdedgvsd 1 year ago
yawn...
999vai999 1 year ago
ha i love his godz cover..
CultureCunt 1 year ago
Oh god I'm in love with you.
ThatFreakBabyKenzie 1 year ago
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this guy is annoying as hell
PowerMaurer 1 year ago
u sound like a comercial
ZoeyCheese 1 year ago
Genius.
SeedsAreUs 1 year ago
Not even close but a good try.
sebastianx13 1 year ago
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Dude, you should get a real job. And practice practice practice...
800988 1 year ago
Fantastic, so now I find out pUnK is not British and to think, I still have not got over the 4th of July (must you keep rubbing it in every year?) ;-) Any chance our Royal Family are really yours too? Please feel free to take them, they come with lots of tourists and tourists are money ;-) Jeffrey Lewis is a very talented man and I really enjoyed this video. Thank You
RikRecked 1 year ago 2
iiiim wating for my man
efsq 1 year ago 13
@efsq
That's how the demo on the 'Peel Slowly And See' VU box goes.
Rottenhaus 10 months ago
Where The Monks At?! The Anti-Beatles Need to be sung here
Or for that Matter HASIL ADKINS, The original Madman, the true father Of Punk Music.
benhalperin011793 1 year ago
Most kids today think the sex pistols invented punk. Douche bags!
LordRassy 1 year ago
@LordRassy I thought it was the Ramones. Now I believe its The Fugs, you should hear the Original "New Amphetamine Shriek"
Seitzy411 1 year ago
@LordRassy Even Glen Matlock sais he was influenced by Blank Generation
desasterz 1 year ago
Jesus Christ, I love this man :)
BehindTheSea29 1 year ago
Oh god. Jeff, will you marry me?
Swiftlygothedays 1 year ago
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noglet76 1 year ago
@noglet76 no way jeff is a really nice cool guy. i've met him twice and he's really friendly and polite he's signed comics for me and given me the time of day to talk to me many times through emails
andylipsmusic 1 year ago
@andylipsmusic Yeah sorry, don't know what got into me.
noglet76 1 year ago
i've always hoped to show this to everyone!!!! thanks!!!
kristinangelique 1 year ago
He forgot about the MC5, the Rationals, Last heard, band's like that. But I guess the Stooges comment at least reconizes them, stylisticly. Other than that, great. Well, except it wasn't the end... Haha.
4letterfword 1 year ago
if I crossed my legs like that when I sat my grandpa would call me a faggot.
SuperTrollNoU 1 year ago 3
@SuperTrollNoU well what a lovely nanny you have
kahanazadak 1 year ago
love the guitar
wazii6 1 year ago
@TristeroRises thanks
here's a spotify playlist of those ^^
spotify:user:crowjake:playlist:2jLEEt1JUhn6KlTlKTAYb3
it didn't have the velvet's doing waiting4myman nor new amphet shriek by the fugs... but the rest be there. x x
itsPenguinBoy 1 year ago 2
Love this dude! :)
Mklztr 1 year ago
wow.
undergoundergo 1 year ago
amazing!
bando081 1 year ago
:) this blew my mind
francesmceeknee 1 year ago 2
what?
BnxGaming 1 year ago
and you should take some amphetamines too...
haha this guys a genius
paudibhoy1991 1 year ago 2
dude, we should hang out, bring your records =)
sjogro 1 year ago 3
this is brilliant, i wish this recording was on an album, but sadly it is not on any of his releases.
dethvallie6t9 1 year ago 4
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they removed my comment but you still suck balls
81bigmark 1 year ago
This is such an awesome video. I love Jeffrey Lewis.
Curtis006 1 year ago 2
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his singing voice is fucking horrible
JAPE2006 1 year ago
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I for one am not going to speculate about this guy being a meth-head. At all.
tobynsaunders 1 year ago
Funny shit.
touchandgod 1 year ago
Those who want to hate on this guy oughtta look in the mirror. What have you done that's any better? His name will be better known as time goes on...if you want your music to matter get to writing.
crayrail 1 year ago 3
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this is the bitch that covers crass
assmunchtv 1 year ago
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blah blah blah stop doin drugs you sound like a CUNT what a idiot
81bigmark 1 year ago
jeff lewis is trying to create something simple and great and raw and meaningful, his crass covers are great though the original, of course, are better. blah blah blah he doesn't do drugs he has songs about how he doesn't. research.
felching 1 year ago 3
He does acid :D
SnoBlackMelbkour 1 year ago
@SnoBlackMelbkour actually, he doesn't "The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane" really was the last time he did acid, and two years after that song was released, he came out with the album "It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through" which has a song "No LSD Tonight" which is about how everyone thinks he does acid when he actually doesnt all because of "The Last Time I Did Acid."
GetTimmyOut84 1 year ago 3
and i know people are going to talk shit back to me, so okay
felching 1 year ago
@81bigmark YEAH what A IDIOT!!! I shouldn't talk, though. I do lots and lots of drugs! They made me so stupid that I don't even know to use an infront of a word that starts with a vowel. Oh wait, that's you, you little prick. Why don't you go listen to your Justin Bieber CDs and leave the music to the cool kids.
wimp10 1 year ago
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@wimp10 its still shit and and he is still a cunt in ive seen your faggy little homo vid on your page thats even worse than this tard you pair of rejects your probably humping each other.
81bigmark 1 year ago
Atleast I'm humping someone.
wimp10 1 year ago
this guy is awesome.
CapoeiraPiper 1 year ago 2
Even though protopunk and punk rock creators were American by birth, it really doesn't matter. Punk had a purpose and the discourse shouldn't be convoluted with something as pointless as US vs UK. That's old school early 1900s American isolationist bull shit. Think of Punk Rock as it's own state fighting a war on two fronts, rather than claiming ownership of something that cannot nor should be "owned,"
bobby666x 1 year ago
@ my previous comment. Don't look on the UK Punk Rock scene with disdain is what I mean. It's all a part of the same thing. Punk should just be left with its dignity in the annals of history. If a real revival of the last push of Punk Rock as the DIY movement in the 1980s occurred it would be shut down so fast by police that it would not be long before you would only be able to have an online community that will inevitably be saturated with pop-culture poison or just die... again!
bobby666x 1 year ago
That was really good, I swear, I should show this to some of the idiots who have no idea what punk is and don't care enough to read, and listen to the music. "Here's PUNK in 8 minutes.
PosieDada 2 years ago
Wowzajesuspants!
phxqt69 2 years ago
Phew! Jonathan Richman on Speed....
sbilts 2 years ago
what holy model rounder song does he play
blackflag277 2 years ago
ha i love the ending! ..".and the whole thing moved over to England and they stole the credit for punk and that's how it goes the end. "
kcssnotbubble 2 years ago 3
yea!!
TheChuckNorris9111 2 years ago
love this thanks man for making it.
mmulnixguitar 2 years ago
frogs in a box
184productions 2 years ago
whatever he's on... I dont want it.
JosCaravan 2 years ago
how does he memorize all of this even with the slight rhyming scheme?
Pausize 2 years ago
@Pausize It's not hard at all really, it's only 8 minutes, you just follow a trail, one thing leads to another. You can relate each thing to the last thing. It's easy to memorize something like this. I think he has some Jew in him too. So there is that.
ArmoredFelix 2 years ago
i didn't know he was born in 75. he's 34 years old. looks like 21.
Pausize 2 years ago 2
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he mentions at the beginning that is singing only about its development on the lower east side. seems like a a narrow view, but he is true to his word.
guitar2321 2 years ago
Jeffrey Lewis is awesome! I love his story of the Fall too.
tmschafer 2 years ago 2
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Bullshit! Here is where punk started
watch?v=HICsPNm2ARY
watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM
watch?v=prQgUO_2QNg
watch?v=n3xtqEv99eE
watch?v=vAdZ4ZgH7Tk
detoth67 2 years ago
Cut and paste those into the Youtube search
detoth67 2 years ago
@detoth67 no
catfacebut 1 year ago
I think a lot of what became punk really originated from Screamin Jay Hawkins, Bo Diddley and Link Wray. To a lesser extent some of the wilder rock-abilly guys like Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochrane.
Maybe Jerry Lee Lewis was the 1st punk.
This was a great video, but it wasn't even close to a history of punk
detoth67 2 years ago
Haha, then in 76 punk fans moved to England and England stole all the credit for making punk. The end.
TehGuitarMan 2 years ago 47
@TehGuitarMan That's okay, it was all stolen from the poor blues artists before that came before them, and so on.
shucky 1 year ago
@TehGuitarMan english punk bands may have `borrowed ` from the US bands but they certainly acknowledged the influence and added a huge amount of their originality.
1960unclemort 1 year ago
@TehGuitarMan
It's easy to take credit for a genre with hindsight! The same claim (different roots) could be made for any other contemporary musical genre. Nobody is denying the roots of what we know as Punk Rock - emphasis on the word Rock - but there has to be a definitive point in the time-line where people can say that was the start. The start was undeniably Mclaren and the Pistols. Punk Rock the genre did not exist anywhere before.
wafll 1 year ago
Yeah sure, go into any record shop on the 'Lower East Side' between '1950 and 1975' and ask for the Punk Rock section and he'll look at you stupid. What you have here is the roots and the seeds of the genre. It was Mclaren who took the samples, developed the concept and delivered the world Punk Rock. Undeniable.
wafll 1 year ago
DUDE GET TO THE MUSIC
victor95marvin 2 years ago
I just downloaded the anthology of american folk and the holy rounders cause of this video. I'll get some david peel. I was already faamiliar with the rest.
MankindCartoons 2 years ago 3
Amazing!Educational and fun!
brownstone23 2 years ago 3
pretty fucking accurate i'd say
russianpaul77 2 years ago 3
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braces. maybe you need them maybe you dont. (Id go with the need)
baple 2 years ago
Oh no, it's the teeth police!!!!
lukaki26 2 years ago
i have an ex with teeth like that and for some reason i found them to be absolutely adorable (except for the nicotine and coffee stains). sometimes i miss his gap toothed smile. probably strange, but true!
eherron 2 years ago 2
As an old guy who was around and in NYC for just about all of this, I give you tons of kudos, Man.
charlesmnewman 2 years ago
TristeroRises 2 years ago 80
(those are, as you probably guessed, the songs mentioned, in order)
TristeroRises 2 years ago
awesome!
OmiBeckett 2 years ago
@TristeroRises thanks been trying to find half of these for ages
thetwilightzone100 1 year ago