punks
The
late 1970's was an exciting time. In Lancaster, we were just hearing the
music that had been coming out of NYC and London for the past
several years- what they called punk and New
Wave. The basic
idea was- do what you wanna do, make the music you wanna make,
anything is possible.
Glenn Redcay had been playing some
terrific guitar in Big Red, but it was time for something new.
Glenn gave up the guitar and picked up a cheesy red
bass- time to start over.Steve Patton heard London calling too. He was more involved in the politics than the rest of us- for Steve it was a revolution, man! Guy Debris had been playing blues guitar, but some of the guitar players in the New Wave scene really impressed him and the nastyness of punk was fun. I was excited by the different ways to write and the new sounds to play and the idea that we could do this ourselves. We all got together to change the world. |