"IT WAS JUST AN EXCUSE FOR KIDS NOT TO HAVE LEARN AN INSTRUMENT AND GET ON STAGE ,it was an insult to any proper muso who had studied their instrument etc"

Precisely the sort of attitude that made punk so essential. The kids stealing back primal rock 'n' roll raunch 'n' swagger from those people who had wrung the passion from rock music and left in its place a dessicated chin-stroking shell: all technical virtuosity and no damned soul.

Every now and then the kids have to kick out the jams ...


PS While we're at it, one of the best records of the 1970s: Modern Lovers