Being a teenager was great. At least, in my memory it was. Exciting, ever-changing. At twelve I was still buying Michael Jackson singles and about a year later I bought my first LP. 'Too tough to die' by The Ramones... I guess my eternal sympathy for the Ramones made me buy Lotta this T-shirt some time ago:
[24mm - 1/30s - f5.2 - ISO100]
It was also the time (somewhere mid-eighties) I got into punk and new wave. The time of spiking your hair with gel, soap, eggs... well, anything you could find to keep it up I guess. The time of black boots and dito clothes. The time of swapping tapes and listening to them all night long. One those tapes there was obscure stuff like Bedtime for Bonzo and less obscure stuff like Crass and Dead Kennedys.
Today, swapping tapes no longer exists, I suppose. Now, there are easier ways of sharing music or (which wasn't possible in the eighties) video footage: through the Internet. So I guess I would happen to agree with Paul Lloyd Sargent at Messhall.org that sites like You Tube are the democratic, audiovisual memory of the US (and, by extension, the whole world if you ask me).
And you know what? I even discovered some Crass and Dead Kennedys footage there!
[thank you Humo for the tip]
We are all children of the digital age now!
Off to see the Tragically Hip in Bruges?
Posted by: Le rasoir chantant | July 07, 2006 at 06:23 PM
Absolutely. Fully and completely!
Posted by: Serge Cornelus | July 08, 2006 at 09:41 AM
schitterend t-shirt! Ramones documentaire onlangs op Nederland was wel ontluisterend: Dee Dee was een heroïnehoer, Johnny een dictator en Joey een dwangneuroot... Hun muziek blijft wel super. Enne, laat iets weten als je Bedtime for Bonzo weet op te sporen. Tot straks op Cactus misschien (nee, niet voor The Hip, wel voor Gnarls Barkley en 4T4 op de afterparty :-))
Posted by: marc | July 08, 2006 at 07:02 PM
Crass? Now there's a CD from my collection that hasn't seen the light of day for a while.
I was a 2nd generation punk. If you're lucky, I might even dig out the pictures of the mohawk/various ridiculous tank-girl esque haircuts.
Posted by: Sam Smith | July 10, 2006 at 11:01 AM
@Marc: achteraf gezien was het toch echt wel niet zo goed he. Gnarls Barkley bedoel ik natuurlijk... :-)
@Sam: please do!!
Posted by: Serge Cornelus | July 11, 2006 at 07:28 PM
Waar hebbie dat tiesjurt vandaan?
Posted by: Ome Ko | July 20, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Gekocht aan zo'n kraam met t-shirts van bands op een of ander festival. Wellicht ook wel in 'Olland ergens te vinden...
Posted by: Serge Cornelus | July 22, 2006 at 12:49 PM