the Blame

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. He gave up the six string and taped a rude photo to cheesy pawn shop 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 this was 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 lyrics and the new sounds to play and the idea that we could do this ourselves. We got together to change the world. And maybe we did. Visit Tapewrecks for much more Lancaster local history.