Canadian Punk Rock circa 1977

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Here's a cool video that originally aired on CBC Sept 27, 1977. Hana Gartner decides to find out what this punk thing was all about by interviewing Canadian punk legends Teenage Head, The Viletones and The Poles between sets at a five hour show.

Apparently she didn't dig it too much. She asks Steve Leckie aka Nazi Dog why he cuts himself, and while speaking with Frankie Venom she told him, "I've been listening to you this evening, and the Viletones, and if I may be honest the only thing I got out of it was a headache." Frankie responds, 'Oh gee, yeah? Tough." Also features interviews with punk girls who slash themselves because they're bored and much more.


To find out more about these punk legends:

http://www.viletone.com/

http://www.teenagehead.ca/

http://www.michaelejordana.com/

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[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!

[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

[parosite]

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

[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.

[darkoanton5]

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

[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

[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]

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....

[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.

[loser078]

Anarchists unite!