Canadian Punk Rock circa 1977

[quadralerium]

I just have to add; does anyone remember Steve Leckie in his "Punk-a-Billy" era?

1978 or so?

[quadralerium]

I was at a show in the 70's at the Horseshoe Tavern where the Viletones performed, and almost everyone in the band had teeth missing and wrist casts and bandages, like this was serious stuff. They had a nasty entourage of Regent Park tough kids, and the entire package was enough to make some clubs keep the lights on for the entire evening, they were so afraid of what could happen. These guys were pretty rough, a great punk band, but they had a reputation....some clubs didn't want the trouble....

[denissmith]

@quadralerium hahaha the lights stayed on because steve wanted the lights up full and no screwing around changing them (having done lights for the band a few times)

Not to say the Blake street boys didn't cause some shit they did (wonder whatever happened to ally)

[quadralerium]

@denissmith I was talking about the house lights, not the band's personal lighting. On several occasions, I asked the club managers why they didn't turn the house lights off, and the said they didn't want any problems with the band's entourage. No fun watching a band with blazing lights on. I'm talking about 1978 or so. It wasn't just the male fans that were rough, some of the girls were a real problem as well, if you were in the audience with them. A great band with a lot of passion.

[BoycottStabb]

Classic yellow journalism...

[RichardCyberPunk]

A very nice piece of Canadian Punkrock History . Like a timemachine on video to the year 1977. Very well done. One thing that could be done better : the video is not very good, the sound is ok. Nice information from 1977 from Canada about the Punkrock Fenomena that was big in 1977/1978.

[attilahooper]

Wow, that's throwback. Thx.

[chilzilla]

Teenage Head and DOA!

[darkoanton5]

They are bored with life. I guess nothing has changed for 17 year old's in 30 years. This is nothing more then shock music. They sound like modern day EMOs.

[denissmith]

@darkoanton5 ugh emos sound like them i think

get it straight

and emo is pure pussy shit compared to a viletones (ugly, Curse etc) show

the worlds changed a lot since then, but it is due to stuff like this in NYC, Toronto, London

BTW this women is an idiot she missed a huge chunk of the real thing

[darkoanton5]

@denissmith It's just media filling time as usual.

[seurat2]

Hilarious. Who knew Hana Gartner was so clueless?

[RainbowzXD1]

1:09 I know the Blonde Dude :D

[Wehategod]

The Viletones Rule!!!

[Hollandia777]

Q: R u a punk?

A: Ehm...I guess so... LOL

[loser078]

Anarchists unite!

[nekroantitodo]

punk rock from canada is one of the most known scenes here in puerto rico.....well respected and one of the more original scenes in all of punk rock's history.bands like the forgotten rebels are the most listened here.

[Hollandia777]

There were not so many of them in Canada to compare it to UK or US but their "quality" was incredible.

[salmangotmoney12]

that news reporter chic is such a fuckin bitch

[Brewzerr]

Haha! I have no idea what this "sickiedickie" said, because apparently after so many thumbs-down hits the post gets wiped out... but damn it musta been ignorant. I've been a punk for 30 years, in America, and some of the best stuff I've ever heard or seen came from Canada. DOA was probably the biggest influence on me ever, other than Black Flag... and I had a compilation called "Vancouver Complication", which was one of the best punk comps I've ever heard. Much respect from south of the border!

[toddstar70]

sickiedickie can suck a dickie. he wasn't even born when these bands and hardcore were around. there are tons of great Canadian punk and hardcore bands. if you are on facebook, check out my group "CANADIAN PUNK AND HARDCORE CLUB"

[eskimoposh]

The interviewer is so fucking condescending. These groups should have banned together and ripped her limb from limb. I'm not even Punk, but she was so blatant about her negativity towards punk rock. What a C.U.N.T.

[Brewzerr]

Everybody was condescending to punks back then. Punk freaked out the mainstream in those days, as it intended to. There was so much media misrepresentation that nobody had a fucking clue unless they were actually there. Hell, most people still don't have a clue.

[TheWho58]

I wonder why they dont mention Battered Wives they were a canadian punk band to and they started at the sametime as viletones.

[mjmcnult]

Yeah, the interviewer is an unsympathetic twit. But all these guys were among the original punk rockers of Toronto. I lost my a portion of my hearing standing in front of Teenage Head amps back in the day.

[puketastic666]

jobop

[CaustiKJesuS]

Punk rock is about the freedom of the movement. It has evolved beyond the nihilism of the 77 movement. that is what makes it a living form of art. It grows with the generations. From Richard Hell to Choking VIctim, from The Poles and X to The Outskirts and Dead Holiday, Black Flag, Subhumans, Anti Nowhere League, Clit 45, it's all about the freedom to be as one feels. It's the truest form of "live and let live", and yet so many dicks think it has a fashion, a look. well, think again.

[strawberrysocks13]

Hana Garter?

she doesnt have a clue! i abosolutely loved the "what makes it offensive is the 17 year old kids who believe what the punks are saying."

come on? punk is the most honest and true music there is.

at least it was.

[jmzsoccer]

haha that lady had no clue, that's exactly what punk rock is haha

[sickiedickie1280]

fucking canadians dont know what punk is.

fucking punk to them is avril lavigne and green day now.

[IdolInternational]

yer a dumbshit... Forgotten Rebels, Subhumans, Pointed Sticks, SNFU, Viletones, DOA, Dayglo Abortions, Dirty Bird, The Posers, Disco Assault, blah blah blah could go on all day...yeah us Canadians dont know punk yet WE INVENTED THE NAME HARDCORE!!!! fuck yer self shitbag

[TheWho58]

wtf is wrong with u the bands u just listed could be found on youtube and myspace...the battered wives u cant find em anywhere. and us canadians do no what punk is u probably live in the south because us in the north no what punk is about FUCK I HATE WRITING THIS SHIT FUCK

[IdolInternational]

I was replying to the dick that said us canadians dont know shit about punk rock, Sickiedickie or summin like that. yeah i live as south as you can go but disco assault and the posers are 2 local bands from my town that u probably never even heard of that iv seen live many times...so why dont you just chill the fuck out.

[TheWho58]

lol sorry dude

[IdolInternational]

Its alright man. no harm done... I dont know why it replied to your comment anyway i clicked reply to his.

[SeanyDrums]

that dick was right, canadian punK? i literally laughed at the title. american music always gets scattered around the world.

[eskimoposh]

don't forget 'the Smalls'

[Nolanhod]

Fuckin Right When Black Flag Came To Vancouver We Labelled The Show "Hardcore Show" And Black FLag Carried It Over Into The states

[Brewzerr]

Amen! Some of the best bands of the day were from Canada. I was in Texas and we loved DOA, Teenage Head, Viletones, Dishrags, Subhumans, Nils, Pointed Sticks, U-J3RK5, Young Canadians, Private School, Insex.... hell I could go on and on myself! Whoever made the statement you reacted to here obviously didn't know shit and wasn't around when it was happening. Not all of us Americans are numbskull ignoramuses. Canada could hold it's own just fine.

[dogterd]

Hannah Gartner vs the Viletones!

this is fucking hilarious

[DylybearA]

why do they always have pansies and posers interview punk bands? seriously. Manson on the Oreily factor was less biased then this.

[parosite]

the bitch must look back at this interview and think i was such a close minded fucking cunt

[Boogieboy138]

rest in peace frankie venom

[anyavarda]

the interviewer is so quaint and could she have found any less 'punk' looking concert goers? really, they look like they're going for dinner with the grandparents. i totally remember teenage head and the viletones but it took a minute to remember the poles, they were sort of a bit too arty to be real toronto punks back then.

[garagebandsrule]

R.I.P. Frankie Venom!

[thirdwatchjunkie77]

YEAH LADY YOU GIVE ME A HEADACHE!!!!

[2phat4that]

sorry cbc

[2phat4that]

no - citytv was trying to be too mainstream

[DeSadeTO]

saw the screwed in kensigton the other day...freaking amazing...punk is always young...but...sort of a misconception, a common one I should say, but punk actually did come out of US, Joanathan Richman aside, too obscure, but the cbgb scene gave us Ramones...and McLaren so to speak who managed NY dolls for a bit, and Ramones who played the roundhouse in London in 76 did the same in London as it did in TO cpl of mts later..everyone in the audience formed a band..and mclaren made a lil band as well

[rhysivora]

Mikki you're so right.

[repelghosts]

jus saw mike nightmare from the Ugly, in kensington market last month...was a super fella to me back in 77 era.

time has crept up on all of us.

jeff

[repelghosts]

viletone eh!

J

[DickStainy]

"Gimmick" my North American ass!

[discomatador]

I find this offensive! Yeah, punk was considered to be very threatening back then and its strangely a breath of fresh air to hear it being covered like this so many years later. Oh yeah! Parents hated this!

[mspoisson]

Wow, the way the reporter described the punks is so weird. It really shows how things were back then, its almost foreign to me.

[jeffkahl]

wow talk about a slice of Canadian music history! this is the real deal folks, we're not talking hairsprayed emo kids who read Rolling Stone and Spin for the latest fashion trends, this is the REAL FUCKING THING MAN!

[baxtersick]

being born in the seventies i missed all this...thank you every one for sharing this incredable slice of cool...

[atmwalking]

Its intersting that these kind of news programs must have contributed to the mainstream rocker backlash against punk.

[bluntsafety]

I remember. Pushed through a school system, no grad even though I tried in the end, I didn't have enough 'time' in school so ... no diploma. Faced with being turned to mulch in yet another system I punked. The Ugly, Head, Viletones, gave me hope. The media is way more violent. Here we confronted the issue! Head on! No sorry little theatre seat for us. Compare Hollywood to a punk band. C'mon Hana!

[Babra2]

Holy shit. I remember watching that broadcast. I was 13 at the time, totally uninitiated in the real world, and didn't know what it was all about. I never got into the punk thing (until recently), though I always loved Teenage Head. But damn, were the VJs really that stupid?

[dbailey62]

... and as an interesting trivial aside, the host of the show, Paul Soles, was the voice of

"Hermey" the wannabe dentist elf in "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer".

The Poles are a long way from Burl Ives aren't they Paul!

[Earpoke]

Wow, thats some serious trivia.

Thanks for the tip!

[porsche83]

..my spidey sense is tingling....Mr. Soles was also Spiderman...(cartoon)