Punk Turns 30

Finding Sounds To Translate Images is not my title! It's Bruce Bennett 's title for his piece in the NY Sun, published on October 2, 2007, URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/63769 That's Bruce on the left, with Billy Miller, his band-mate in The A Bones. I've seen Bruce standing on his amp and doing other crazy rock n roll things on stage... but his dirty little secret is that when he's not going crazy playing a mean guitar for the A Bones, he's quite the scribe... Since I couldn't have possibly said anything better than Bruce... I'm lifting from him in huge chunks from that NY Sun article, where Bruce tells us that ....In 1999, the custodians of Rohauer's archival legacy, the Douris Corporation, and Ohio's Wexner Center for the Arts commissioned guitarists Tom Verlaine and Jimmy Rip to compose and perform new musical scores for a program of Rohauer's experimental gems. Mr. Verlaine had gained moderate fame as the front man of New York...

That would be Mary Weiss lead singer of the legendary girl group, The Shangri Las who turned my, and most girl's worlds inside out with their true-to-life interpretations of true-to-life scenarios. If you don't remember "Walkin in the Sand," or "Leader of the Pack," tune in to oldies radio. But you needn't go back 40 years to enjoy Mary Weiss. In the photo above, she's in a recording session with co-producers Billy Miller and Greg Cartwright. That record is out now! Dangerous Game, on the Norton Records label. The former teen queen has always kept her keen eye on the music scene, and who knows what she thought when punk bands like Blondie started having success, no doubt inspired by the girl group phenomena led by the Shangri Las. Then there's this whole other amazing slew of punk girl groups who took their cue from the girls of the 60s: The Runaways who were the leader of the punk pack, all the way to the current crop of girl groups...