I'm reading a book right now that is so chock-a-block full of classic little quotes that I've decided to offer up the choicest nuggets on a semi-regular unscheduled basis. I'm talking about Please Kill Me, The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. This is the book that finds the germination point for all that came after.
I'm only in the earliest of years, but suffice to say that, while the Velvet Underground was doing their thing in New York City in the mid-1960s, the match that lit the flame of punk rock was struck in Detroit, Michigan, circa 1968, by fourlads rowdy hooligans who went by the name MC5.
Iggy Pop, also from Detroit, was their protege. The MC5 called the Stooges their "little brother band." If you wanna know more, buy the book. But here's Iggy recounting his first visit to London in about 1970:
I'm only in the earliest of years, but suffice to say that, while the Velvet Underground was doing their thing in New York City in the mid-1960s, the match that lit the flame of punk rock was struck in Detroit, Michigan, circa 1968, by four
Iggy Pop, also from Detroit, was their protege. The MC5 called the Stooges their "little brother band." If you wanna know more, buy the book. But here's Iggy recounting his first visit to London in about 1970:
"All I liked to do was walk around the streets with a heart full of napalm. I always thought 'Heart Full of Soul' was a good song so I thought, What's my heart full of?
I decided it was basically full of napalm."
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