Word: punks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure what music is today," Eric von Schmidt says. "The word is applied to punk rockers and discos and everything down to bubble gum... I wonder when they're going to get to the pablum audience...
Close your books, it's a pop quiz. Only one question, but tricky. Multiple choice. Graham Parker's music is 1) new wave, 2) old wave, 3) no wave, 4) punk rock, 5) pub rock, 6) none of these, 7) all of these...
Parker tried almost everything else, from rat breeding to gas pumping to tomato picking, finally scraped together enough money for a London grubstake. He got to town just in time to get caught up in the first seismic shudders of punk and to join forces with the Rumour, a band that sounds like a five-man scorched-earth policy. Parker and the Rumour recorded their first album in 1976, got tagged both as punk's precursor and then, just months later, as the movement's first sellout. Soon after that Parker's career stalled over a hasty...
Boston rock and roll is reeling. Critics call it "new wave" but the musicians and their devotees uniformly say it's "punk." Whatever you prefer to call it, it's Boston's genuine sound, some of the most exciting music around, branded by a particular rancor, commenting on everything from politics to love to disco...
Cantone's (15 Broad St. in Boston) is another interesting place: it is a family-style Italian restaurant by day, a punk rock stage by night. The Space is worth mentioning only because of the talent it occasionally features, but it used to be a gay disco, and the floor isn't particularly useful for anything else...