Holy Grail

[thebarguest]

Stuart Maconie said recently in his "Radio Times" collumn that
there really wasn't much musical difference between the 
Pistols "Never Mind The B*" album, and Judas Priest's offerings from 
the same period. Lyrically, of course, they were very different -
nihilistic social realism/negativism versus goblins and medieval
wars !

A lot of people in the late 70's had mixed taste. Among my own 
friends,AC/DC and Motorhead were enjoyed alongside Pistols, Ultravox, 
Magazine, Buzzcocks... A huge Yes fan got into Killing Joke and Joy 
Division.
The different genres were not mutually exclusive but there was blind 
prejudice from a minority of extremists on both sides.

Actually, very early Def Leppard (1979/80), when they were nwobhm and
not USA-FM-candy-rock, was exciting, fast, hard rock.

Just been listening to the famous NME C81 tape in the kitchen - it was
weird, I kept expecting Peely's voice between the songs !


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "dunelm61" <dunelm@...> wrote:
>
> Def Leppard? Iron Maiden? Samson? Witchfynde?
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thebarguest" <thebarguest@> wrote:
> >
> > It's strange to hear Pink Floyd juxtaposed next to punky songs !
> > 1979 was the last year that happened, maybe because the BBC bosses
> > decided to implement a policy of musical "apartheid"/segregation.
> > From then on (actually from 77-78), Peel would be JUST new-wave 
and 
NO
> > trad rock, and the "rock" shows eg Vance, would have NO new-wave 
even
> > if it sounded like trad rock !
>