Punk haiku 12- Sex PISTOLS, THE CLASH, and PUNQUE for the well-heeled.
AUGUST 1977 TORONTO
FACE IT AGAIN
A couple of songs from our show in the basement of upper-class Toronto, Aug 1977.
First, a song musically inspired by the Sex Pistols. This version is still pretty new. A few stumbles but builds up a head o' steam.
Lyrics? "When daylight comes and you feel frustration/coming down again like that same blank stare/and you feel that any end to your pain/would leave you burned out hopeless numb again./ Tomorrow the sun will be shining/ Tomorrow the sun will be hot./ Muscles fuck in frustration/ No I couldn't face it again"
punk haiku 11 the garys
Unheard stories and sounds from the proto-punk years featuring Toronto's The Scenics
This video is the Scenics playing What Goes On in 2009, in London, Ontario. What Goes On is also featured below, played in 1977.
August 1977, toronto
WHAT GOES ON
A couple of songs performed at a very liquid and smoky session at our "basement under the toy shop" with our new friends - "the Garys" and a bunch of their friends. This is, of course, a Velvet Underground song. A year or so later we recorded a version, also in our basement, that ended up on the How Does it Feel to Be Loved CD.
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ONE COMES CLOSER
This song of Ken's doesn't remind me of anything, really, except for a movie or a story... The character, the narrator, is really clear, but musically, it's uniquely Ken. He has the ability to write so strongly from from a place that is just him. This song is just a week or two old at this point. About three months later, we recorded it in the studio. 30 years later, it ended up on Sunshine World.
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Punk haiku 10 cfny the demo show
Here's a video of How Ken's song O BOY ended up sounding in the studio. From Sunshine World
JUne 1977, TORONTO
O BOY
This time, a couple of raw, 'instant' songs.
The first day Ken brought in O Boy, he played the opening riff, Brad and I looked at each other and instantly jumped in with our parts, the same parts we ended up using in the recording studio four months later. (As heard in the above video from the Sunshine World CD.) This version is the earliest recorded version we have, from June 15, 1977, about a week after Ken wrote it.
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE
Punk haiku 9 DEVO, THE RESIDENTS, THE DEAD BOYS, AND BRADLEY COOPER on Drums
June 1977, Toronto.
CHILLS
Two songs from our first couple of weeks playing with Brad Cooper on drums, June 1977. Chills is one of my favourite Ken Badger songs that has NOT been recorded in the studio. We almost got to it in 2008, our most recent time multi-tracking.
At the beginning of the track, Brad's comment gives you a glimpse of the life of unbridled hedonism that we were living in the summer of '77.
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I HAVE YOU
A number of Andy's with a pounding style that fit Brad like a glove. It later kicked off side 2 on our 1980 LP Underneath the Door.
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punk haiku 8- leaside found, first demo
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I'M HURT
These two songs, one written by Andy (Hurt), and one written by Ken (Caves), are the last two songs on Sunshine World, and have the highest improv quotient on that CD.
Hurt has pools of sound that head off in various directions, in between verses and choruses. Caves has quiet sections at the beginning and between the verses, and then a rave-out at the end.
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punk haiku 7 THE STONES, THE ELOI, WE FIND A CAVE
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rEAL GOOD TIME TOGETHER/DIRTY WATER
Four songs from the "Scenic Caves" first public gig. First- the first songs we did that night- a medley hitting the Velvets and the Standells.
Set list at the bottom of this page. We DID do a lot of originals that night, but recorded sound was iffy, and a lot of the originals we did do have been posted on Punk Haiku recently, so here are a few rarely visited friends.
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punk haiku 6 Finding the songs/ iggy and patti.
NEW PART IN TOWN
written by Andy with a 104? fever after he got home from seeing Iggy on The Idiot tour .
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THIS DAY (NOT DEAD YET)
A very early version of the song of Ken's that appears of the Sunshine World CD as "Not Dead Yet". I guess you could say this is "not Not Dead Yet yet"
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Punk haiku 5 a drummer stays/talking heads
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TOKYO
These first two are early '77 with Mike Cusheon, the Scenics first drummer. One day I dragged Carol's reel to reel tape deck down to Neil Wycik. We got these first two songs (and others, including Do the Wait and In the Summer from Punk Haiku 3). This rave-out rocker of Ken Badger's we played in '77 and then brought back in 1980.
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Punk haiku 4 "1 2 3 4/ drummer for a day"
SEE ME SMILE
An out-take from the SUNSHINE WORLD cd. Recorded during the Scenics' first studio sessions, summer of 77. I always thought the first two lines of this song were a manifesto of a sorts: "Turn your eyes around in your head/what you see is just what you get"...
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Femme Fatale/Too Much of Nothing
These next three songs are from the first time the proto-Scenics played with a drummer- October 17, 1976, the enigmatic Mike Brown.
punk haiku 3 "FANZINES, THAI STICKS, & D TO G"
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DO THE WAIT
First version of this that we have on tape- within a month of Andy's writing it on a train to his sister Janet's house on February 19, 1977.
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IN THE SUMMER
Ken's song recorded the same day as Do the Wait. Versions of all three of these songs (from the recordings studio, later in 1977 and in 78) would make it onto the Sunshine World CD.
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SCENIC CAVES
From the first tape the "Scenic Caves" ever recorded. October 15, 1976. No drums, but Andy's high-school buddy Dave Moore on second guitar.
"In the Summer needs to supplant "Seasons in the Sun" as the finest Canadian summer anthem ever" Cameron Gordon, Chart attack review of Sunshine World
"Do the Wait" from Sunshine World- #9 on the Toronto Star anti-hit list, and featured on "Five Songs you Gotta Hear Today" on the syndicated "Explore Music" radio show.
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