Best UK Proto-Punk Band

Best UK Proto-Punk Band

  • Crushed Butler/Hammersmith Gorillas

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Stackwaddy

    Votes: 1 25.0%
  • Third World War

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Musical Vomit

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Slade

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Shadows

    Votes: 1 25.0%
  • Other (Specify please)

    Votes: 2 50.0%

  • Total voters
    4

STN

sou'wester
Oh, they're all dreadful. Can I have The Pretty Things? Or The Faces?

I really, really hate Jesse Hector. I don't really know why.
 

martin

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Yeah - I'd go for the Pretty Things. But then I know FA about proto-punk. Er...T Rex?

True Shadows-related story - my older brother used to hang out with Hank Marvin's son (the one who died of an OD a few years back).

I've never heard Hammersmith Gorillas, they just looked like such idiots I couldn't bring myself to check them out.
 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Every time I hear Dr Feelgood I like them, and seeing this video


they get my vote just cos the singer's speeding his tits off.
 

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Every time I hear Dr Feelgood I like them, and seeing this video


they get my vote just cos the singer's speeding his tits off.

Niceness. Even though it's an r & b chord sequence, you can totally see the influence on stuff like Gang of Four in the guitar style there. Streamlined and choppy - good stuff.
 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Niceness. Even though it's an r & b chord sequence, you can totally see the influence on stuff like Gang of Four in the guitar style there. Streamlined and choppy - good stuff.

Been intermittently going through videos of them on youtube today since looking at that, they're so wired in all of them, it's great. Twitching away.

Every old punk I know says that they were a major influence, simply because they gigged everywhere around 75/76 and because they reportedly played really, really fucking loud. Much like Hawkwind, I think actually. Influence through persistence.
 

Ness Rowlah

Norwegian Wood
Hollywood Brats (73/74) for "Sick on You" (they later turned into pop-punksters The Boys), flares, song about two minutes too long, but "hey I'm gonna be sick on you".

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