Kid Calamity wrote: IanB wrote: I've actually completely forgotten why we weren't supposed to like them back then. Was it the lack of overt politics that did for them or was it the strippers and the hells angel security types?
I suspect it was because the NME deemed them 'old'.
Ha! I know Jet Black is in his 70s now but I'd lay good money that many of the key people in the US punk scene (not to mention Nick Kent and CSM) were as old or older than JJB and Hugh Cornwell. Pretty selective age-ism if that's what it was!
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