Rock and Roll Punk part 1 of 6 (PBS 1995 Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2010
- Part 1 of 6. In 1995, PBS (& Hugh Thompson & Robert Palmer, the critic not the musician) produced a comprehensive series on the history of rock and roll. While there were other documentaries produced at that time with the same name, this one is superior & harder to find. I think it is a terrific primer on the origins of punk & the influence of reggae on music in the 1970s. In 1995, many of the original people in the scene were still around to tell their stories. This episode of punk was part 9 in the overall series.
Sorry for the VHS quality, but maybe that contributes to the punk aesthetic. 
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I have this doc on vhs from childhood and it has enriched my life.
I saw this when it first aired in 1995. I was 15, and it came to me at a time in my life where it could inflict the maximum amount of impact upon me. Kurt Cobains death ended my time of listening to pop, rap, and R&B which was what all the kids in Chicago listened to, and inspired me to ask my older brother to teach me to play guitar. He is ten years older than me and was going to DePaul University of Music majoring in Jazz Piano and Guitar. This documentary turned me on to so much good music. No one from my generation heard of Television or The Modern Lovers until the mid 2000’s, after the rise of The Strokes, when DFA Records, LCD Soundsystem and the New York Hipster scene made all that stuff cool again.(I’m sure people will disagree with that statement but it’s true, I was there 😉) Luckily, I had the foresight to tape this when it aired. This part, the Punk section, I let a friend borrow that tape and never saw it again. It was the best damn part. I have the majority of it memorized, burned into my mind. I later found this on Amazon about ten years ago and bought it. I’m not sure if it was on VHS or DVD, but right now I’m inspired to dig in my closet and pray I still have it. It’s worth to me is immeasurable. Thank you.
another great documentary is Punk Britannia
Any documentary that starts with Jonathan Richman is an A-plus!
The Kingsmen, The Standells, The Shadows Of Knight. I will forever be grateful to my mom, who simply just played the “oldies” station in the car when I was little in the 1980’s. All of that stuff was my musical foundation in life. I’ll always remember the station, Magic 104.3 and Dick Biondi. He was like Chicago’s Dick Clark. That whole garage music scene of the 60’s, a bunch of those bands actually came from Chicago.
I videotaped it first run in 1995; 17 yrs. later I'm in a college class and watching this documentary was our only homework. This is indeed the best part of them all ;)
I remember visiting CBGB as a teenager. Someone put tape over part of the walk/don't walk sign on the stop lights. Instead of the orange hand being a full hand, it was the "horns" symbol. \m/ My fifteen year old self was so excited when seeing that.
Wow... !!! My best friend, It's always great. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks
They started with Richman...brilliant
This is what explained punk to me when I was a kid. Been looking for this doc for a long long time. Thanks for posting!
this documentary is an absolute gem!
awesomatic! the beauty of music is the fun it is in discovering the release not memorizing the formula. : Blü
WOW, thank you for this. I taped this off pbs, it was sandwiched between a Clive Barker documentary and a Roseanne Halloween episode! Growing up in northern IL this taught me a lot about these amazing bands. I'm so happy to be able to watch this here.
Thanks for uploading this gem. Incidentally, this Robert Palmer (the critic) was also a musician; he played sax with The Insect Trust, a unique band that released 2 albums in the late 60s.
I saw that doc when i was young.... I gotta say brilliant...
Really enjoy both styles. Give me a Clash or Genesis album anytime.
Well I became a devotee to classic I mean pre 00's rock music and subgenres (metal and all of the other stuff) last year. Now I happen to be most interested in punk rock. Im really happy I found this as it enhanced my knowledge of whats punk.
This documentary series was known in the UK as 'Dancing In The Street' broadcasted in the late 90s. Great series for any music fan to learn history.
A year or two after I moved to NYC, I remember watching some group way over on Avenue B, when I felt something on my shoe. It was a rat playing with my shoelace. "Well," I thought, "I guess that's part of the experience."
Lenny Kaye, great guitarist! :)
I always believed (if not the first) one of the first punk songs was the kinks 'I'm not like everybody else'..1966 , garage rock and punk ,almost the same..thank God for college radio
Richard Hell talking like Yoda over here. “So thirsty were they”.
Rock 'n' roll needs to be central to our culture again
I wish they had all parts of the documentary
FYI - All of the episodes are on RUclips, but you need to type in "Rock and Roll + (title of episode)" The episodes are titled: 1) Renegades; 2) In the Groove; 3) Shakesperes in the Alley; 4) Respect; 5) Crossroads; 6) Blues in Technicolor; 7) The Wild Side; 8) Make it Funky; 9) Punk; 10) The Perfect Beat. Enjoy!
I remember this documentary focusing on the blues scene with the Stobes
Jonathan Richman brings out my inner conflicts. On one hand he inspires me to new artistic and emotional heights and on the other hand he just makes me want to drop out of B U.
@BaronM
The episode is called "The Wild Side"
@jrsample0425 You're right - Frey is from Michigan, Henley from Texas, Meisner from Nebraska, Walsh from Ohio, etc. But as a group that formed and settled in SoCal and came to define the sound of California singer-songwriter rock along with Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt. So...
Do you have the other episodes? I saw this when it first aired, and would like to use a clip that appeared in the Elvis episode for a youtube video I'm making. thnx
have you got the other episodes dude? looking for the funk episode in particular. is there a torrent about?
No sorry for VHS, this is in MultiD. teleport me back in time!!! :)
i fuckin love this documentary!!!!!!
1:05 man, that intro
Does anyone remember that Yes' Rick Wakeman was trying to stage a "rock & roll version of the King Arthur legend, that was to be preformed on ice?!!! oh thank God for punk...
@chrisp761 It's "Yes", and the keyboard player is Rick Wakeman.
@MrEvilPenguin22
The Stooges feature prominently in the episode "Performers" or something ... goes from Elvis ... to ... Morrison, Iggy, ... Bowie ... Cooper ... KISS (in a tongue in cheek way of course) ... and so on ... They give plenty of credit and respect to Iggy and the Stooges ...
Can you please tell me the artists performing at the beginning of this video?
I believe its Styx and Emerson, Lake and Palmer? Let me know...CP
You're right about Emerson Lake and Palmer, but the other one was Yes, not Styx.
what about velvet underground? that sounds like the modern lovers to me but came out earlier.
The Velvets were covered in an earlier part of the series, "The Wild Side". This documentary consisted of nine, one hour long episodes.
What about the late 60s Detroit hardcore garage bands the MC5 and the Stooges? He'll, even 1969-72 era Alice Cooper had a very sharp edged proto-punk sort of sound, ethos, and image. Then there's the Sonics of Tacoma, Washington.
Saicos it's father of punk! Demoler from Perú!
Vamos a demoler el estacion del tren.....demoler,demoler.demoler...jajajajajajja
If they really covered the full history of punk, this episode would be at least eight hours long.
well obviously, it was gonna skip over people, Iggy, the Velvets get covered in the "born to be wild" episode.
What was that song the guy was playing in the stadium
The band in the empty stadium was Emerson Lake and Palmer playing Fanfare for the Common Man. I'm not sure who the one right before them was, but I'd like to find out.
The guy in the long robe outfit is Rick Wakeman from yes doing his solo King Arthur performance.
johnny richman is always adorable
The guy at 3:45 looks like a young John Kerry...
Interview Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine discussing the history of Television in the movement, all while playing a Voidoids backing track... :faceplate:
Richard Hell and the Voidoids. I think you are looking for flaws here.
Maybe...but there *are* early recordings of Television with Richard Hell that would have been a better fit.
I'm grateful for their inclusion of punk, despite the flaws, most documentaries about rock&roll, prefer to skip over punk, in favor of more Paul Simon, and shots of Woodstock, sure, there are glaring errors, where is the SoCal movement of Black Flag the Germs and X? but, I'll be happy, with my crumbs, and give
pBS a B+ for the effort
is that John Trudell? i'll google it
african americans were a huge huge part of music they invented blues,rock n roll jazz,rap etc.....
oh God, I hate the Eagles.
I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!
part 1 of 6, Title: Part Nine? oh, part 9 of 6, ok.
Missing from all this is the REAL beginning of punk ... The Velvet Underground, followed by The Stooges. Next was the crowd shown in this clip at CBGB's (Television, Ramones, etc.). That said, nice job.
7:40
jea!
2:17 YO ADRIEN!
So that's like, Mac Demarcos dad right
Patti Smith reminds me of PJ Harvey
Rock and Roll was a mixture of blues and country. And there weren't a lot of black people playing country.
Punk save the Rock that its it!!
"Every band their own documentary :-) "
More BBC punk on /watch?v=NcA6ODL9UEE
thank God for punk.
The Ramones were not "teenagers" when they formed as this film suggests. Johnny & Tommy were in their mid 20's while Dee Dee & Joey were in the early 20's. In fact Johnny and Tommy had been playing in bands since the mid 1960's. This show fails on so many levels.
+Frank Discussion well they called themselves a "teeny bopper band, I think they liked to present themselves as teenagers, it fit their image.
if you mean her face, I guess you meant charlotte gainsbourg.
punk may have started in America, but Britain gave us the force of nature, called "Johnny Rotten!
living legend
Britain also gave us CRASS!
emma duncan In my opinion, UK punk always seemed more fashion oriented where as punk in the US was more raw
pretty much spot on., even though the pistols, had the perfect attitude.
Can never argue with that
I hope they cover post-punk and 80's hardcore in this series.
They don't. It's the same sort of narrative you generally see: After punk died when the Sex Pistols broke up, nothing happened until this band from Aberdeen, Washington called Nirvana blew up on MTV.
It actually made me mad how they did that. Didn't even mention the 80s once
Yeah. It's PBS. They're not gonna talk about Black Flag.
Unfortunately, despite X the music press(East Coast) never took the LA scene much respect. Mainly because "new york, were far more cerebal then those pretty L.A types...
emma duncan It's just that every documentary on punk always skips right over the California punk scene, British post-punk, and other subgenres.
No MC5? Stooges?
+Willis Ryan >>it's old and it's narrow
My thought exactly! I always thought of Patti Smith as an old hippie chick trying to pretend she wasn't a hippie chick. Like the guy in another comment, I can appreciate her place in RnR history, just like I can the Beach Boys, or The Grateful Dead...it's just not my flavor. Give me the MC5 and The Stooges any day!
they show up later along with the Velvets, and the Doors, I believe it's the "Wild side"
Yes, every time I think of CBGB in 1975, I think of an audience filled with liberal professors in turtleneck sweaters.
When I think of rock n rollers that took themselves too seriously, and were the farthest thing from "fun", I think of people like The Clash, and Patti Smith!
Russian squat
We need another movement like punk to kick commercial music in the balls. but if too much of something is bad, where's all the anger towards commercial pop and rap? I'm not seeing a backlash towards the mainstream, and this has me very *very* worried
The Eagles may very well be the worst band ever...well, It's a toss up between them and Styx
TOTALLY AGREE. I was 18 in 1974, and I hated the music on FM radio. Everyone around me was listening to that garbage, and I couldn't stand it.
Most of my record collection from those days, and after, is long gone, but I still have an original LP of "Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols".
A vastly underrated record, especially Steve Jones' guitar playing. John Lydon was right about that.
Don't forget Journey or Foreigner
Oh, Styx all the way!
This documentary completely skipped over prog-rock, and the only mention of it at all was in the beginning of this episode when they were talking about what lame-ass punk rock was supposedly rebelling against. It must have been funded by Jann Wenner and his cabal lol.
The quality on this is shit. Thank god I have a better copy
the sound sucks in this shit if you dig music, haha, so?
arbitrary statement.
Please Kill Me..read it or be forever ignorant about Punk
love that book, Legs is a pain in the ass genius!
The guitar, or the origins of the guitar come from the middle east, how does that figure into your dopey theory?
On second thought, don't respond - it is still morning and I have already been inundated with enough dumb to fill an entire week, a response is not necessary - you are dismissed
Punk rock is amateur crap. Give me a Yes album anytime.
Prog rock sucks. Give me a Ramones album any time.
Prog rock is amazing. Well, some of it. Anyway it's way better than the Ramones, where every single song sounds the same.
just because you're different doesn't mean you're any good.....stop worshipping and giving affirmation to people who are clearly not good and skilled at what they say they do.
looks like we have our ELP fan...emerge the yawn.
Yeah.. stop liking bad people!
So...Jonathan Richman is,like,an idiot savant?
Stupid documentary. They completely erased entire periods.
Jonathan Richman wrote exactly one "punk" song and that was Roadrunner, which was nothing more than a complete ripoff of the Velvets "Sister Ray." Punk started with Iggy & the Stooges and the Velvet Underground, not Jonathan Richman and Patti Smith.
No offense but you're 100% wrong. You must not have heard the first Modern Lovers album. Also, although I can agree with the idea that the Velvets and Stooges were ground zero for punk (among other bands) from another perspective you could say that Jonathan Richman was truly the beginning in terms of approach. As groundbreaking as VU and The Stooges were musically, they still had ties to and traits from the old rock scene. Richman as a frontman/songwriter is unprecedented.