Punk: Attitude Page #3

going what the hell is this, you know?

It was kinda strange,

different kinda attitude...

and he was kinda jumping around

like a spastic, you know.

Now if you will be my lover

I will shiver and sing

Primal beats, you know,

slabs of sound...

brutally,

psychologically honest.

Lyrics, you know...

in a metaphoric, I mean, "I wanna be

your dog", those kinds of things...

things that he grabbed

from the blues.

Now I wanna be your dog

Now I wanna be your dog

I think the transformative experience

that happened to Ig...

was, and I was at the show too,

he saw The Doors.

Seeing the Doors

changed them.

They were mesmerised...

what they saw in that performance

gave them a whole new lease on life.

I'm worth a million in prizes

Yeah, I'm through with sleeping

On the sidewalk

No more beating my brains

Beating my brains

With liquor and drugs

With liquor and drugs

You know these were bands that weren't

selling records, you know.

Iggy claimed as far as he knew he didn't

sell any records until he came to NY...

and met this other, this newer generation

of like The Ramones and stuff who were...

completely informed by The Stooges,

which was shocking for him.

It seemed like a lot of the people

who started the early...

both the punk and the new

wave bands in America...

were the only Stooges

fan in their town...

the only

Velvet Underground fan...

and then we all moved to bigger

towns and met each other...

and started bands.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

No, no, no

Baby, no, no, no

You know rock 'n' roll

had become this just be...

denimed kind

of drum solo...

kind of thing, and what we wanted to do

was to bring it down to 3 minutes and...

put that Little Richard

drag on top of it and...

that's what rock 'n' roll was to us.

You know...

we were just trying

to make rock 'n' roll.

Punk rock wasn't even a thought

at that time I don't think...

but the seeds for punk were certainly

being sown by The Dolls...

and by all the bands that had

come previous to that...

such as The Velvets and

The Stooges and the MC5.

And your a prima ballerina

On a spring afternoon

Change on into the wolfman

Howlin at the moon

In England there was this thing,

this controversy...

because this guy said...

what did he say, mock rock...

which, you know I mean,

I couldn't care less at the time...

but I could see how it...

kinda like galvanised kids who

thought, like, this is the real deal...

so what do you know,

you old fart.

Festival music from an American

group like the Stones...

like the Monkees were

to the Beatles.

A pale and amusing derivative.

These are the

New York Dolls.

Who so fly up in the sky

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