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First punk auction to hit New York (Christie's auction)
AP via CNN ^ | Oct 29 2008 | no byline

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: auction; christies; culturewar; rockandroll

1 posted on 10/29/2008 10:54:18 AM PDT by weegee
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To: weegee

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2116969/posts
Punk Rock Republicans
The McCain Blogette ^ | 10/25/08 | Meghan McCain

“It is my great honor to announce that Linda Ramone, the wife of the late legend Johnny Ramone will be joining me to campaign for my father in Nevada on Monday and Tuesday. I couldn’t be more excited and humbled if Elvis himself came out on the road with me. Looking forward to sharing with you what its like to campaign with a legend!”


Ohhh the times, they are a CHANGING.


2 posted on 10/29/2008 10:55:32 AM PDT by weegee (James Brown sang: "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing, Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself".)
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To: weegee
How much would a sanitation engineer charge
to haul this type of junk to a land fill?
3 posted on 10/29/2008 10:58:27 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Obama and ITS thugs are made paranoid by Sarahnoia. (stole from molly_jack2007))
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To: 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; cgk; ...
Rock and Roll PING!


4 posted on 10/29/2008 10:58:53 AM PDT by weegee (James Brown sang: "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing, Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself".)
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To: weegee

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).


5 posted on 10/29/2008 11:01:48 AM PDT by Frantzie
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
I don't know but John Lydon (stage name Johnny Rotten) burned the items he had, including possessions from John Ritchie (stage name Sid Vicious) to keep this sort of thing from ever happening to them.

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.


6 posted on 10/29/2008 11:04:16 AM PDT by weegee (James Brown sang: "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing, Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself".)
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To: All

Does anyone, but me, see any irony in this at all? Think about it...


7 posted on 10/29/2008 11:04:57 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: weegee
Most people don't get that it was actually the socialist ideals of the late 60’s and early 70’s that was a big part of what punk was rebelling against. The Ramones invented the whole thing.

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.

8 posted on 10/29/2008 11:07:36 AM PDT by tcostell (MOLON LABE - http://freenj.blogspot.com - RadioFree NJ)
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To: tcostell

Roger that!

I guess the CBGB’s stuff is now out in Vegas somewhere. ‘have to hit it next time.


9 posted on 10/29/2008 11:13:14 AM PDT by PfromHoGro (Spread your OWN wealth around... I'm not stopping you.)
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To: tcostell
“...the hippie movement which is left-wing. Punks, you identify them if you go back to the fifties and sixties as a bunch of greasers who are more right-wing and anti-peace demonstrations and that kinda stuff. Then suddenly in the punk rock movement you start having these left-wing kids who are really hippies who have become punks but are still really hippies.” - Johnny Ramone (R.I.P. 2004)

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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.

10 posted on 10/29/2008 11:16:47 AM PDT by weegee (James Brown sang: "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing, Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself".)
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To: weegee

... second verse... same as the first....


11 posted on 10/29/2008 11:21:45 AM PDT by tcostell (MOLON LABE - http://freenj.blogspot.com - RadioFree NJ)
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To: weegee
David Bowie = Punk?

Huh?

12 posted on 10/29/2008 11:41:02 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

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.


13 posted on 10/29/2008 11:53:19 AM PDT by weegee (James Brown sang: "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing, Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself".)
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To: weegee
Will they be auctioning off the original film for the Quincy episode "Next Stop Nowhere", where we learned that punk music would turn us into murderers?

"I wanna see you CHOKE!!!"

15 posted on 10/29/2008 12:03:57 PM PDT by Clemenza (PRIVATIZE FANNIE AND FREDDIE! NO MORE BAILOUTS!)
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16 posted on 10/29/2008 12:09:44 PM PDT by weegee (James Brown sang: "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing, Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself".)
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To: Clemenza; Revolting cat!
I want to know what things they will have from the Standells, the Seeds, the Sonics, and Question Mark & The Mysterians. Let alone punks like The One Way Streets and the Swamp Rats (also of the 1960s).


17 posted on 10/29/2008 12:18:37 PM PDT by weegee (James Brown sang: "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing, Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself".)
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To: weegee
Some would even consider Paul Revere and the Raiders to be pre-punk. Take a listen to "Just Like Me" or "Steppin' Out" to see my point.

You still have to fight with record geeks for any of the Fugs work on vinyl at Bleecker Bob's.

18 posted on 10/29/2008 12:24:06 PM PDT by Clemenza (PRIVATIZE FANNIE AND FREDDIE! NO MORE BAILOUTS!)
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To: Clemenza

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.


19 posted on 10/30/2008 12:00:46 AM PDT by weegee (Global Climate Change? Fight Global Socialist CHANGE. vote NO on Obama-Biden.)
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