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and the previous generation is (with a few exceptions lol Ray Manzarek) largely despised and scorned for their gross "rock star" ways.
Which is especially rich given what a fucking sexist he was ("women shouldn't be in bands" or something to that effect)
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 16 July 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
I'm thinking back primarily to We Got the Neutron Bomb (which, btw, does include Fowley and the Runaways but does not, iirc, address Fuchs' rape) and once people like X, the Germs, Black Flag, the Weirdos, etc. were on the scene yeah it just doesn't seem like this creepy predatory sexual atmosphere permeated everything as it did a few years prior. a lot of the women are more assertive, openly hostile/aggressive in their own right, and there's a different kind of asexual/gender confusion/queer strain running through it, and the previous generation is (with a few exceptions lol Ray Manzarek) largely despised and scorned for their gross "rock star" ways.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, July 16, 2015 5:06 PM (Yesterday)
this is definitely the sense i got of the UK punk scene from jon savage's england's dreaming. i haven't read viv albertine's book yet but i'm curious what her perspective was.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 July 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
two months pass...