Modernettes - Barbra

Modernettes - Barbra

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[Bobb9999]

Hey, I remember this song! Haven't heard it in years.

There's a clip on YT of Duff McLaghan reminisicing, about coming up to Vancouver from Seattle for long visits, satrting when he was 14,early '80s, to be part of the punk scene here. He thought/thinks Vanc. at the time probably had the best punk scene in N. America, if not the world!

[MudpuddleRanch]

Fun times way back when.

Mary Jo Kopechne

[Telstar62a]

Surprised and pleased how well a lot of the Vancouver music holds up over the years....

Also, history fans, Mary Jo Kopechne was the name of the young lady who died in the Chappaquidick incident...I guess this makes her 'Ted Kennedy-adjacent', at least.

[mikeinoakland]

"LA punk rockers, you give them the microphone and they never shut up" damn right. although us rank and filers arent real big fans of the "PHd's blathering" (the three well known ones from 1977-82 bands. unless, nah. descendents/Milo also? nah, don't think so? he certainly was never a controlfreak/lecturer etc).

but it was long overdue for someone who can't play a single riff on bass guitar (properly) to attempt a musical analysis of the one-of-a-kind never-before-done " Modernettes/bass

[mikeinoakland]

but anyway as i was sayin. while the dork in the BB-gun toting pigeon-shooting lame UK band whose name no one cared about (then or now, it was a pre-fab band for east coast NYC'ers who didn't actually like punk rock but needed one "punk rock" in their record racks) was re-painting the "names of the notes on the side of his fretboard" (aint gonna help, sorry dude, u suck beyond suck) -- MJK was re-inventing what a good vintage Fender bass could sound like if you DISCARDED ALL PREVIOUS RULES, ha

[mikeinoakland]

which was the one thing LA and VC had in common, circa 1979. "fuck the UK, we just thought of a better way to do this shit." no fuckin shit. actually wait a minute. five minutes after the sexless pistols, UK/press declared "punk is dead, here comes ska" right? or was is 5 seconds after the 15th skinhead riot at a Sham 69 gig just when that band was starting to get good (see: live albums/79)

man somebody should've written a song called "We Don't Need the English" (record collector jk)

[mikeinoakland]

and you gotta respect the montgomery bros. we/our band saw Dimwit play w/the Feb 1979 sub-humans at the SF Mab (two days before, and the night of our own Mutants/sub-humans/samoans gig) and whoa, dude was one of the best drummers in the WORLD, any type. hahahahah we were such dumbassed LA "suburban punks" brian/wimpy sold us the brooklyn-bridge-firesale story that "he's a caveman , dude, he lives in a car and only bathes once a week" and we're all "whoaaaaa now that is punk rock,fuck the UK" ha.

[mikeinoakland]

( wrote several amazing books )

yes GUILTY OF EVERYTNING is almost elegantly uh, uh, what's the word. that means "understated"

((book tour Q: "why is the book only 102 pages?" A: "because i left out all the lame guitar solos")

the most brilliant part of its 'stylistic conceit' doesn't even sink it until after reading it. THERE IS NO TIME LINE. (no dates anywhere during 1979-1981),.

it's just one drunken blur like most 2nd-division "shoulda sold millions" bands are. fuckin brilliant.

[mikeinoakland]

when i innterviewed the modernettes john/mary back in 1988 i was even twice as dumb/stupider (see: LA punk, it was a job requirement. plus complete spiritual digestion of every cool early Black Sabbath riff, as a combat weapn to exorcise the stench of all the 1977 art-schooly david bowie fans pfffst) than i am today, so this musical bass guitar theory had not been formulated yet. .

it took decades of unconscous contemplatoin. ok, actually about 10 seconds, but w/a "realization" moment ,ok

[mikeinoakland]

i have this music theory why MJK's bass playing technique is the greatest punk rock bass playing ever. it's pretty airtight actually. (can't remember if it requires a good Fender Precision/Jazzmaster/etc but i'm pretty sure it's essential to the CLANKITY-CLANK component that has never been taught at BIT/GIT dork music scholls).

but thats just us old LA Punksz 70's thinking outside the box that's outside the box that's not even in the same province as the box everyone else is staring at.

[visaman]

Thank you for this. I was 15 when this show aired, thanks for the memories.