CBGBs

Turn up the volume!
Hilly Kristal just died

I was 15 when I heard Television for the first time, having been nagged to buy the record by some snotty little 3rd year (year 8?), but what a Vision on the Road to Damascus! Tom Verlaine (oh what pretence!) and his band were marvellous. CBGBs saw in Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Blondie, Richard Hell and the Voidoids and god knows who else. American punks, influenced by the Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, Iggy and the Stooges, MC5, who had been doing it from the late (or even mid) 60s, with help from Todd Rundgren and David Bowie. Malcolm MacLaren took this and made the Sex Pistols in the UK (and look what happened then), but he wasn't an innovator, just a populariser.
Currently struggling in a computer-lite environment, using Jus's PC in the attic while he is out. He has managed to break my laptop (god knows what is wrong with it, but the unlicensed version of Windows that it came with is a likely culprit) and my PC (power pack on order) since he came home. He is still able to talk to Roxie, but under very controlled conditions. Not happy