The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44756   Message #659969
Posted By: M.Ted
28-Feb-02 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Social Conciousness
Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness
"Back in the USA" is the album--don't know if it is available on CD--the music is much tighter and cleaner, and more focussed than "Kick Out the Jams", with one of the most powerful shuffle beats that there ever was--it was on Atlantic, they had been dropped by, who was it? Electra I think, and the album climbed to about 30 on the Billboard charts--by this time, they had split from the White Panthers, and they no longer had American flags drapped across the amps--their reputation followed them though, and they got no airplay at all---they were not political guys, though, and their music was a physical rebellion than an intellectual one--the crowds loved them, but they fans were much more proto-metal fans than the studied Maoists that the White Panthers claimed to be--

Getting back to topic, they did inspire the whole punk rock movement--which was a very raw form of protest--all in all, Bobert, they were a very good choice--