Punk - how did the 70s arena bands react?

Judas Priest adopted the leather.

Halford said that was more from "rough trade" (not the label)

though musically I think British Steel does a great job of embracing the brevity of new wave

i am also kind fascinated by this general topic - i think the paucity of known info and reactions by the big megastar people is weird - i dont think its too controversial to say that whether you liked it or not that the punk thing was one of the most significant cultural/ musical revolutions of the 20th century and the evidence would suggest many of these acts just lived in such a strange bubble that they just had no reaction to it or didn't know how to react - surely they actually knew about it and had an opinion - maybe they just were't asked the right questions - dont know

Zappa thought punk involved “playing shitty” and was “against music”?

We say noise is for heroes (heroes)
Leave the music for zeros (zeros)
Noise Noise Noise is for heroes (heroes)
Oh yeah

I enjoy tying to imagine the moment and feeling when Jon Anderson realized he’d been lapped

I love the old guys a lot more but kind of feel bad for them

Bowie was a 70s arena band during the era of punk. he headed full on into punk, or at least post-rock, with the Berlin stuff. recorded albums with Iggy Pop and Lou Reed.

T-Rex toured with The Damned and Blondie. apparently he was washed up and considered a one-hit wonder by then (at least in USA) but his final record "Dandy in the Underworld" is a great album w heavy goth/new wave vibes.

Good thread. That AV Club mix is interesting, though mostly abysmal. Wearing and Tearing has to be in the top 5 worst zeppelin tracks and some of the rest are comically bad.

Robert Palmer is the poster boy for "Established star who loved punk & new wave unrepentantly". I had forgotten about his cover of "I Dream Of Wires", it's damn good!

linda ronstadt's take on the ramones -- as academic deep dive into one fractional aspect of the rolling stones -- is interesting. not exactly wrong, per se.

Do you care for punk music at all?

Well, I like the New Wave stuff, and that couldn't possibly land in L.A., because nobody moves that intensely. So, of course, it would have to come to New York, because New York is in a similar situation economically. I mean, it's a similar sort of sociological greenhouse, so to speak, for developing this style of music. The punk stuff is not very musical nor very multifaceted. It seemed to me, when I saw the Ramones, for instance, that they had taken one facet of what Mick Jagger does, which is a kind of stance, maybe one move and maybe one little chip off of an emotional statement, and it was sort of limited to that. Mick Jagger has such a tremendous overview that is so many-faceted that it makes it sound so much more. But if you just take a chunk of it, it doesn't glimmer as much.

Are there any punk rock groups that you've thought made it?

Well, I like Television a whole lot, and I love Elvis Costello. Elvis Costello just touches my heart. The first thing that you associate with him is anger. But there's also tenderness and a great deal of humor.

Have you seen him perform?

I've seen him perform, and I was just mesmerized. I saw him at Hollywood High. I was in the back row and I had to stand on my seat through the whole thing. I mean, I wouldn't stand on my seat for anybody.

Robert Palmer rules

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