"After strutting around the stage and openly mocking the New York crowd, suddenly, without warning or even a count in, they launched, catapulted, tore, into "I Feel Alright" by The Stooges. It wasn't the beginning of a song, it was Detonation! Their power, energy, and volume was all simply breathtaking. They slammed into the main riff (sort of a sped up version of "Spoonful") with a frantic and almost desperate ferocity. I can vividly remember sensing the whole of CBGB sort of just collectively gasping, 'Holy Shit!'" Step back in time to April 8, 1977 with Binky Philips as he attends a Damned show at CBGB. Not just any Damned show, this was the debut performance for any UK punk band in the United States. Binky was there for the first of two sets the Damned played that night (bands used to do those sort of things). Read the whole thing here. Photo courtesy of Ebet Roberts.
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I love reading Binky's stuff - he always tells a great story and always makes me wish I'd been there to witness it as well.
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