Well tend to try not to get off topic. i might right one in my own free time

ahem: Iggypop and the stooges begat the sex pistols who begat the clash, Etc.

I like how ya put Iggy Pop's name...into one name.


Iggypop!

(You have to say it really fast, and when you do it seems funny)

Iggypop!

sounds biblical.

Don't you love my new avatar?

I did a thread like this minus the poll and it got closed.

ya, threads like these tend to go down in flames rather quickly. I for one, dont think either of the two bands started punk. but as you see, this is why these threads dont work unless someone can actually come up with some hard evidence it gets nowhere.

Billy Joel, Roger Daltry and Iggy Pop

Neither, Punk was a movement than no one started directly...And besides, The New York Dolls, The Stooges and MC5 are punk and they were around before the ramones and the pistols, The Who were also a big influence on punk.

hmm...
velvet underground started in '65
stooges in '68
NY Dolls in '71
Sex Pistols in '72
Ramones '74

Ill leave it at that

i think its pretty safe to say he was refering to the music genre rather than the movement, I guess the term "punk rock" was coined by Dave Marsh (according to wikipedia) who was a rock critic and used it to describe "garage rock". but who knows, ive heard several differant stories as to who the first band considered "punk" was and how the term came to be.