CycleChat Investigates - Glam Rock

[ianrauk]

Never heard of it until you mentioned it here, I had it on this morning but as we've only got the basic Amazon music it had some Wizzard and Mud shuffled in with it, brilliant.

So very underrated, Rock in its pure form.

 

[Oldhippy]

It's still better than the dross churned out today with few exceptions.

 

[FrankCrank]

Saw he who can't be mentioned at the Reading Uni late eighties. A lot of the audience had made the effort, and were dressed in spangly style.
He who can't be mentioned was looking somewhat subdued by comparison, in a black leather outfit.
This was all well before we were to find that he could not be mentioned.
Saw Suzi Quatro that same summer at the same venue, both excellent concerts.

 

[gbb]

Thet were 50's Revival not Glam

Neverbthought about it like that actually. As we're a few bands then, I guess Alvin Stardust would fall into that genre too

 

[craigwend]

Mock Rock...


View: https://youtu.be/Cbd-BcuPvLA?si=5Ah668nR_tRaoqLa

 

[craigwend]

He who can't be mentioned continues to rot, but sadly not in Hell...

https://news.sky.com/story/disgrace...o-stay-in-jail-as-parole-bid-refused-13384989

 

[Drago]

He who can't be mentioned continues to rot, but sadly not in Hell...

https://news.sky.com/story/disgrace...o-stay-in-jail-as-parole-bid-refused-13384989

Hes the leader of a different gang now!

 

[Oldhippy]

New York Dolls were a sort of punk proto Mötley Crue I always thought. Touted as the American Sex Pistols by some journalists.

 

[Shortfall]

New York Dolls were a sort of punk proto Mötley Crue I always thought. Touted as the American Sex Pistols by some journalists.

I think it's the other way around. The NYD's were formed before the Pistols who were probably the English version of them.

 

[Oldhippy]

Quite possibly.

 

[Drago]

The Sex Pistols were a bunch of talentless opportunists, blatantly milking the very commercial establishment they pretended to decry.

 

[Webbo2]

New York Dolls were a sort of punk proto Mötley Crue I always thought. Touted as the American Sex Pistols by some journalists.

My cousin was Jonny Thunders manager post the New York Dolls.

 

[Shortfall]

The Sex Pistols were a bunch of talentless opportunists, blatantly milking the very commercial establishment they pretended to decry.

I dunno so much. I don't think there's much debate about Sid Vicious being talentless, but the others could actually play a bit and Johnny Rotten wrote some fantastic lyrics and was the perfect front man for a punk band.

Edit: The Pistols reunion concerts, Johnny Rotten's turn on I'm a Celeb and the Butter adverts were definitely not very punk however!

 

[Glyno]

What? No Bowie?

I think Bowie deserves a category/genre of his own

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The Sex Pistols were a bunch of talentless opportunists, blatantly milking the very commercial establishment they pretended to decry.

I remember seeing a programme saying the "Created Punk Rock" and thinking that those very punk like bands I saw in pubs in Liverpool before SP every bothered to sign a contract must have been something else
funny that they sounded like punk
exactly like punk

there were certainly better punk bands out there