Seattle Punk report from TV around 1981
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2011
- I videotaped this off TV around 1981. This report shows the Seattle punk scene at that time including clips of the Fartz, RPA, Visible Targets, and many interviews including John Bigley, Nicki, the Refuzors, etc. You see the Gorilla Room, Wrex and a fashion show at the Showbox.
Respond to this video... I'm the guy at the beginning of the Showbox footage jumping to The Fartz. Was this The International Punk Expolosion Show? That was my first hardcore show, in April of 1981. I was 20 going on 30. I came home from that show inspired to do a fanzine, and one month later I published the first issue of PUNK LUST. R.I.P. Nicki, you were rad!
Arguing over what punk is since 1981
2nd Time Around was such an awesome place to get music. Loved the U District Street Fairs, and be able to hunt for cheap music there and Cellophane Square.
I'm in this video from 1980 punk report.slam dancing. Fun fun time at the rex.
Leather jacket and sunglasses.
1981 I think.
Good depiction of Seattle scene around 81 and how people reacted to punk those days... But how these slightly older dudes described punk, its relation to new wave, politics etc. is just bogus. Anyway, fun to watch.
Thanks for posting up this video! Nice to see & hear Nicki again!!
punk wasnt new in the 80s, unless you lived on planet normal
You can say the first real punks were the Kinks. But then again, who influenced them? Link Wray? Duane Eddy? Dick Dale? Big Bill Broonzy? How about Sister Rosetta Tharp? You're durn tootin' it wasn't new.
The show was a local magazine show off TV in the 80's ~ I think it says the name in the video
Those were the golden years.
Thanks Dave
Wow this is amazing
Well the Melvins were pretty punk and never sold out, ever.
anyone who know where John Bigley is now? the only thing i know is that he is part owner of the capitol club in seattle (?). does he have a band now or not? does he even live in seattle?
Hunh, never thought of Poison Idea as a new wave band. Learn something new I guess
a whole new concept in music and fashion? wow is this guy late to the party! to put it in perspective Sid Vicious died two years earlier and the Ramones first album was 5 years old at the time of this report and played Aberdeen a year after that album came out.
@MrWilum oops, 29 going on 30. Man, a long time ago. I turned sixty this year, but if I was in that crowd this very moment I'd be acting just the same. Punk is STILL so rad and so real. Makes me want to do a new issue of Lust.
do it!
We're talking peace, love and anarchy! XXXXX
@MrWilum - Mr. Pugmire, I presume. I still have at least one copy of your zine from about '81, and a letter you wrote along with it. Good to know you're still kicking around.
@MrWilum You were very lucky, I've would of killed to be apart of the early 80s punk scene.
shared IT House with Mike Hunt 1:36 ... 12th and Denny by the COOP
Mike Hunt get your friends laid show
Do you have the original file for this? Im needing the footage for a project im working on.
Looks pretty much like today. What can I say?
What is a yippy?
And what is a whiz kid? How do you become a beatnik then become a hippy and then a whiz kid?
Ze Whiz Kidz were a local troupe of glam drag artists/musicians. Tomata Du Plenty was one of the founders.
Google isn't available where you live?
nice collection ... check out Voices in the Dark ... 85 / 86 Broadway mini doc by D. A. Larew
I think punk roots are in NYC. Think Patti Smith, Jayne County, NY Dolls, Iggy, The Ramnes, … Just saying. Lived in Seattle back then. This was awesome to see. Thanks for posting.
The Sonics, The Wailers, The Kingsmen, all from the northwest
London S.S. was before all that
Ha, London SS formed in 1975, Ramones 74, NY Dolls, 71, Iggy 67, the Sonics 1960, The Kingsmen, 57. The US invented it and the UK popularized it
Great channel!
House of Blues thank you
@shadowxxxremnants Absolutely - the Funhouse got the vibe
do you know which show this report came from at all? writing an essay for uni about english v US punk scenes and am trying to cite it
Said PM Northwest
Which guy is Willum? The straight jacket?
Is the guy who wanted to create a under age club creator of Rck Candy
RIP Nikki.
Where is John Bigley
Got it, but is the same John from the U-men? because I am looking more about this band but can't find...
Yes it is the John Bigley, singer for the U-Men (now a business owner in Seattle's capital hill)
New wave and punk are not synonymous. I heard it described once back in The 80s. Punk Rock is a bunch of angry young people who picked up instruments and beat the hell out of them. New Wave is when Punk Rockers actually learned how to play those instruments. In reality New Wave as music is the progression of disco, while the look is the progression of Punk Rock. Saying they are the same is typical of any generation where people over 30 would just say “it all sounds the same to me!” True even for today.
3:42 Is that Ted Bundy?
To me, he looks more like Steve Albini or Jeffrey Dahmer.
Nerds , Trippy Hippies and weirdos more like it