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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...
...Punk seems very self-indulgent to me, at least in this country. I think it draws a lot of upper-middle class audience....Folk music is musically valid because it relates the reality of experience as opposed to analytical considerations; it encompasses humanity in a way tht no popular music does...
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...
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...