Posted on 10/29/2008 10:54:18 AM PDT by weegee
Memorabilia from some of punk rock's biggest acts and seminal moments -- including a scrawled flier for one of the Clash's first shows and publicity photos signed by the Sex Pistols -- is headed for a November 24 Christie's auction.
The event, announced Tuesday, includes more than 120 records, photos and promotional pieces for such punk, garage rock and new wave legends as the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, the Ramones, David Bowie, Blondie, the Cure and the Smiths.
The auction is Christie's first to focus on punk mementos, signaling the collectible status of a brash, anti-authoritarian rock movement that largely thumbed its nose at posterity.
...Should they care to, highlights include a rare poster for a 1976 Ramones concert in London widely credited with helping inspire such British punk titans as the Clash and the Sex Pistols and a flier for a show later that year featuring the latter two bands and the Buzzcocks.
Other prime finds: a copy of the Sex Pistols' first press release and a 1966 promotional packet in which an up-and-comer called David Jones promulgated his new last name: Bowie.
The various punk items are expected to fetch between $300 and $6,000 apiece...
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Ohhh the times, they are a CHANGING.
Reminds me of when I was a “yute.” I liked Lydon and the Pistols because he was a libertarian. Their song “Bodies” was an anti-abortion song though he said it was not anti or pro. In a roundabout way he said it was about personal responsibility and respect for human life. Their lyrics were very good for young poor working class youth sub-20 years old.
Lydon liked Newt and has said England has been destroyed in the past decade. He did not say Muslims but I got the drift. He lives in LA and has been a property inevstor. His wife came from a wealthy German family.
In their film on DVD that came out about 2 years - the NY Times talks about how it was an indictment of Thatcher whcih was totally wrong. Lydon’s voice over at the start of the film shows garbage piled up in the street in London and essentially indicts the Labour Party (UK’s DemoRats).
John Lydon Destroys Sex Pistol Rarities For Television Pilot (Wed. September 16.1998)
"In keeping with the 'Cleanse the Century' theme of every show's last segment," Gardner said, "where John takes popular cultural icons and destroys them in some spectacular way, in the pilot he built a huge bonfire on a beach at night and burned a bunch of original Sex Pistols memorabilia."Among the items that Gardner said Lydon gleefully torched was the T-shirt bearing the word "Destroy" that Lydon/Rotten wore in the video for the group's career-making song, "Anarchy in the U.K." Also consigned to the flames was one of a dozen or so copies of a colored-vinyl version of the "No Feelings" single manufactured by A&M Records, which briefly signed the group in 1977.
Also trashed in the clip is the one-of-a-kind copy of the group's classic debut, Never Mind the Bollocks (Here's the Sex Pistols). It was signed by all four original members, including late bassist Sid Vicious, guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook, as well as original bassist Glen Matlock. An original tour poster from the Sex Pistols' 1977 British tour was also torched.
Aside from sentimental value -- which they apparently did not hold for Lydon -- the objects in the segment carried a monetary value as collectibles, according to one rock-memorabilia expert.
Does anyone, but me, see any irony in this at all? Think about it...
About a month ago I saw a kid wearing a CBGB's shirt and an Obama button. Clearly he didn't get it. My CB's shirt is older than the kid was.
Roger that!
I guess the CBGB’s stuff is now out in Vegas somewhere. ‘have to hit it next time.
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Anyone who's read Leggs McNeil's Please Kill Me, which is a collection of the writings/interviews of a number of people from that world from the late 1960s-1970s can see that was the case.
The MC5 were marketed by their White Panther manager as an activist band but they didn't walk the walk and the Leftists could clearly see it (there was a near riot one night at one of their east coast shows).
And the New York Dolls knew that “it wasn't them” when Malcolm McClaren was dressing them up in red with a Communist flag when he moved the band down to Florida in the mid 1970s as their manager.
The dogma of politically correct liberals was stifling. It was even more restrictive than the old square world of “you shouldn't get stoned or have sex” moralists.
... second verse... same as the first....
Huh?
He changed the type of music he played when he got ahold of an accetate of the Velvet Underground. He changed his name when he got a copy of the Legendary Stardust Cowboy’s Paralyzed (which has to be the first cow-punk song, circa 1968). He produced the Stooges’ Raw Power album and later toured in Iggy Pop’s solo band playing keyboards in the 1970s.
"I wanna see you CHOKE!!!"
You still have to fight with record geeks for any of the Fugs work on vinyl at Bleecker Bob's.
The Fugs were folkies who yearned to be something harder.
Even 40 years later they never achieved it.
And Paul Revere and Fang did cut some originals like Kicks, Hungry, and Louie Go Home.
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