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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi
I saw The Dictators last year at one of my favorite small venues and even with all the humor running throughout their songs, they definitely sound like what I consider to be punk rock. Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba and Ross "The Boss" Friedman from the original Dictators with JP “Thunderbolt” Patterson, Daniel Rey, and Dean Rispler. Easily one of the most thoroughly enjoyable and ass-kicking punk shows I've ever seen in the past 39 years (holy crap! the years fly by fast!  ) |
^ Sorry, Psy-Fi, I've only just caught up with your post. I can imagine that live, they'd put on quite a show - more fun than their studio stuff, probably. Also, it's kind of you to defend my candidate, especially given that I am just a tourist in this genre. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Mister Mushroom
Arguably, Woody Guthrie was the first punk musician I can see.
A lot of his music was pro-working class, anti-corporatist and anti-fascist. It may not have been what we consider punk today, but lyrically it was punk as hell.
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Welcome to MB, Mr.Mushroom
I like your user name, and hope you enjoy yourself here.
Unfortunately, I am obliged to disagree completely with your post! Those three characteristics you mention have run like a thread through folk music - and blues, for that matter- since folk music began. Punk and folk may have attitudes in common, but that doesn't mean the labels are interchangeable. Still, I'm glad you should mention Woody Guthrie, and even make a case for him here. That's excuse enough for me to post this long saga, so others can decide just how punk he is:-