Links in comments...

Thanks to reader Dave Sez who has posted some interesting looking links in his comments today.
Check out his comments on The Ruts, Flux, Television, Richard Hell and Lew Lewis.
Just a reminder that comments are what makes the blogger's work worthwhile.
Update: Check back here regularly for further links from Dave.

John Peel Show- Punk Rock Special December 10th 1976.

…an injection of energy and crudity into a rock scene that’s been painfully smug and complacent … Peel on punk.
On December 10th 1976 John Peel devoted his show to the punk rock scene. Readers may well be familiar with the music featured, and the records that Peel plays here might be accessible, but this is a good listen for Peel’s observations on what punk was about and how it was revitalising music . The inclusion of tracks by American progenitors such as the New York Dolls supports the notion that creative movements are about evolution rather than revolution, despite what their champions would have you believe.

Peel intro.
The Damned - So Messed Up (Peel Session)
The Seeds - Pushing Too Hard
Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Eddie and the Hotrods - Horseplay (Wearier of the Schmaltz)
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat (Peel Session)
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation (E.P. version)
Television - Little Johnny Jewel Pt. 1
Tuff Darts - Slash
Pere Ubu - Final Solution
The Damned - New Rose (Peel Session)
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
The Fast - Boys Will Be Boys
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
The Saints - I'm Stranded
The Damned - Stab Your Back (Peel Session)
Shadows of Knight - Light Bulb Blues
Ramones - California Sun
Ramones - I Don't Want to Walk Around With You
Peel outro…

Richard Hell and the Voidoids- Blank Generation (EP version) John Peel Show 10th December 1976.

Richard Hell was a definite 100% inspiration... torn and ripped t-shirt...this look, this image of the guy, this spiky hair...By being inspired by it I was going to imitate it and transform it into something more English - Malcolm McLaren
On December 10th 1976 John Peel’s BBC radio show was given over to a punk rock special. It featured The Damned in session, and tracks from The Sex Pistols, The Saints and a host of American groups who had influenced the development of punk, such as The Ramones, Television and Pere Ubu, along with earlier garage acts such as The Seeds.
This version of Blank Generation comes from the EP released by Stiff records.
I have a good remastered copy of the whole show. I’ll post it if anyone’s interested.

Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation (1977)

Well, as further recompense for my error with the Television demos here’s a record that most definitely features Richard Hell.
After leaving Television in 1975 Hell went on to form firstly The Heartbreakers, with former members of the New York Dolls, and then The Voidoids.

Line up:
Richard Hell -bass, vocals
Marc Bell -drums
Ivan Julian -guitar, backing vocals
Robert Quine - guitar, backing vocals

The link has been removed following a complaint from the DMCA

Television- Fairland Demo (1974)

Ok, these 5 tracks were recorded in 1974 before Richard Hell (nee Myers) fell foul of his boyhood buddy Tom Verlaine (nee Miller) and left Television. Hell, of course, went on to become one of punk's elder statesmen. Brian Eno at the controls.

Line up:
Tom Verlaine- guitar , vocals
Richard Hell- bass
Richard Lloyd- guitar
Billy Ficca- drums