Paul Weller - Into tomorrow 

Joan Jett is so amazing here. Such a powerful influence, and she really knows what she's talking about. I love it so much :)

Japan has been cutting edge and had more foresight than the US for a long time..Queen's early success was also in Japan.

hi kim,I remember the night this aired.nobody has ever understood the mind of the fan like you.allan wesaquate

This is quite a piece of footage... wow, Kim Fowley with Joan Jett & Paul Weller! So young & having a serious debate on TV with Bill Graham! I don't think Fowley looks ridiculous & Weller is incorrect in saying that Punk as a term was created by the UK press. We all know about Lenny Kaye's Nuggets liner notes (1972) Suicide calling themselves Punk in the early 70s, Punk magazine in New York in 1975, the New York scene (Ramones, Television, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders, etc.) Thanks for the post

"Punk rock" had been used informally by music critics in the US rock press to describe bands of young, unpolished musicians who wrote songs with snotty "teen-age" attitudes. (The NYC band SUICIDE billed themselves as "punk" as early as 1971.) The term became widely used to describe a particular music scene--not so much a style, at first--because of John Holmstrom's NYC magazine PUNK, which he and compatriots published to amuse themselves and to write about things they liked. It was intentionally a humorous magazine, a sort of MAD magazine for the rock scene. As Holmstrom was in NYC and he liked the bands starting to appear at CBGBs, that scene and those bands were featured predominantly in the mag. These bands had previously been referred to, when referred to at all, as part of the "NY Underground Rock" scene. After Holmstrom's magazine, they started to be called "punk rock." It grew organically from there. The NY punk scene was heterogeneous, the bands all having their own sounds and styles. "Punk" as a musical style did not become formalized and homogenous in look and sound until the explosion of the British scene--which came a bit later and was influenced hugely by the NYC scene. Much of the American "punk" scene that came later was influenced as much or more by the Brits than by the original NYC bands, (although many of the Brit bands were stylistic derivations of the Ramones).

I recently read that the first use of the term "Punk Rock" was in 1970 by Ed Sanders of the Fugs when he was describing his solo album. So the media may have appropriated it but they did not invent the term.

@MrJamesrnolan Yeah, Ive read that, that journalists used it as a descriptive term years before it became known as a genre.

Well, Joan probably didn't know it then, but some folks called a lot of the Nuggets-era garage stuff punk rock, and a couple years before this in the L.A. Times, Robert Hilburn's review of the Sweet's Desolation Boulevard had a headline describing the album as a shining example of punk rock (not the exact wordage, but they did use the punk rock term)...so it did exist pre-Pistols/Ramones etc.

more proof that musicians should do their communicating through MUSIC.

RIP KIM FOWLEY

AMAZING didn't know this existed BUT where is the Tom Snyder interview including ZOLAR X and RODNEY BINGENHEIMER? Still M.I.A......

well it's true what you say but wasn't important to the scene. Kim Fowley would have made that point clear as he produced many Garage Punk tracks going back to 1960! Just listen to the Rangers - Mogul Monster from like '61 - that is like gritty as hell! :D Like was the term Garage even used before Elektra put out Nuggets? It was more emphasis on Rock and Roll by the artists themselves, just like Joan Jett made clear - peace !

Fowley showing his silly Bowie infatuation by impersonating Bowie's "Thin White Duke" phase.... Joan comes over rather level headed ,no matter how shitty the 'Runaways' were; surprisingly she's the only one of Fowley's past associates ,who (despite her association with him) managed to create a profitable career for herself well into 2016....

Youth. Joan Jett looks hungover from ludes.

Graham wanted to make a profit. If you were more popular than Journey he'd book you too.