Showing posts with label Eddie and the Hot Roads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eddie and the Hot Roads. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 13



A song that you like from the 70s.

So many great songs from that decade but I'll highlight this one, 'cos I'm guessing that it never reached the States at the time. Must be played fucking LOUD:


Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do anything you wanna do (1977)

Friday, October 04, 2013

Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb (PM Press 2006)



Billy Bragg
We read about the Jam. We could relate to where Weller was coming from, so we went to see them and that transformed us. Whereas the Damned and the Sex Pistols seemed like they were like a parody, taking what the Eddie and the Hot Rods were doing and taking the piss - a bit like the Darkness now. The Jam, when we saw them at the Nashville Rooms, seemed to really mean it. Weller had the words ‘Fire and Skill’ on his amp. They had skinny ties and suits; they looked good. We thought they were part of that Wilko Johnson/Barry Masters white working-class suburban music scene, compared to the Pistols being art school tossers really. The Pistols’ fans also wore swastikas - that really pissed me off as well. I didn’t like that idea at all.