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Author: wade
Date: 08-28-12 19:36
My apologies if someone has posted this before.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg4fj-H8JVk Enjoy!
I don't know who to feel more embarrassed for: the host, Kenn Kweder, or his wholly devoted fans.
I should mention that Kweder actually went on to make some pretty good records, but it would take about another ten years.
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Author: breno
Date: 08-28-12 20:48
One of the St. Louis stations did a similar story about the "crazy" punk and new wave sounds coming out of the city. This being St. Louis, though, it was in 1981 or so, three years after every other city in the country did their punk stories on the news. They kept interviewing some fat guy wearing a Devo flowerpot hat.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 08-29-12 11:04
> This being St. Louis, though, it was in 1981 or so, three years after every other city in
> the country did their punk stories on the news.
Ummm, I'd say that put STL neck and neck with Colorado Springs. One of the city's newspapers ran a story about a rock club that had started hosting a "New Wave night." The story included photos of a girl who had tried to dress up like Klaus Nomi (although I didn't recognize her imitation till a year later, when I learned about Nomi from a New York-based fanzine called Non LP B-Side) and a guy with a skinny tie, ogling the camera with this contrived smirk. I remember thinking, "Jeez, that's exactly how those assholes in high school looked at me when they found out I was into this music ... and here's this guy copping the same look! Who's he trying to impress?"
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Author: MrFab
Date: 08-29-12 12:17
Oh man, thanks wade, that was hysterical. How could they have possibly screwed up that Pistols footage like that? Maybe journalistic standards aren't declining - they've never been that high to begin with.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 08-29-12 13:10
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Maybe journastic standards aren't declining - they've never been that high to begin with.
Journalistic standards?
They were never very high to begin with. Remember The Maine?
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We expect to lose a million next year, too. You know, Mr. Thatcher -
at the rate of a million a year, we'll have to close this place in sixty years ... or perhaps abandon print media altogether and just run as a website. I hear that's all the rage.
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Author: zoo
Date: 08-29-12 14:49
Absolutely hysterical. Sometimes real life is better than any invented comedy.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 08-29-12 16:52
Boy, I can't wait to get off work to watch this video. It's garnering high praise!
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Author: mats84
Date: 08-29-12 20:32
That "Kenn is the messiah" stuff is creepy and funny but a bit more creepy than funny.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 08-30-12 00:32
"Now the underlying premise of punk rock is this, as I understand it ... as I read it in the media ..." Yep, this sounds like the words of a true rock & roll messiah, huh.
"And I must say, he has about the most enthusiastic fans I'd ever met." Makes me wonder what sort of music that interviewer likes.
Actually, the music in this clip (apart from the Pistols' effort at playing the Ramones, whoops) isn't bad -- reminded me a bit of Alex Harvey. But how can his fans call him the messiah of rock & roll, and talk about all the excitement he and his band generate, and then stay seated while the group plays? Sheesh.
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Author: wade
Date: 08-30-12 15:07
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Actually, the music in this clip isn't bad -- reminded me a bit of Alex Harvey.
It's funny, because apparently Kenn was known in Philly as a folkie in the early-mid 70s, so he must have changed up at some point. Also, he may have dropped his prejudice against punk and/or new wave because he ended up opening not only for Patti Smith and Elvis Costello, but for none other than the Ramones!
Here he is just last year doing the solo acoustic thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRYDpN1CQY0
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Author: Delvin
Date: 08-30-12 15:11
> apparently Kenn was known in Philly as a folkie in the early-mid 70s, so he must have changed
> up at some point.
It worked for Marc Bolan.
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Author: Heff
Date: 08-31-12 12:35
I like how he seems to feel that it would be an insult to call his music punk rock.
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