[kj] Clip of US punk documentary/riots

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I guess by that point they'd broken up, reformed briefly as The Doomed, 
then came back as The Damned in '79 without Brian James, which, yeah, I 
guess from a certain perspective maybe folks like that would see as 
selling out. Of course, I forst got into The Damned in 1988 whe I was 
14, so I'm one to talk. It was still hard to find punk-type albums here 
(this is Texas, after all) so I grabbed what I could. I remember 
listening to Phantasmagoria and then Damned, Damned, Damned, which I 
bought both at the same time, and being like, huh, what the hell is 
going on here? Is this the same band?

-Oliver





Neil Perry wrote:

> Well that always confused me to about the Damned -  I think

> the 'real' punks gave them the benefit of the doubt over the

> second album, but Machine Gun Etiquette was considered a

> major sell out by the hardcore - it was the album that

> all the younger kids like myself really got into, which was the

> kiss of death for any self-respecting original fan.