Don Tommasino what console do you have? I started playing it again after going on a Call of Duty binge. All I do is run my businesses, resupply them, and sell my products. I have a PS4, so if you have one too, we can add each other and make some money together.
except the cops kicking the shit out of you randomly, and no one giving you a job or a place to live. even in the 80's and 90's life was tough to be a punker in LA, and especially outside of LA or Frisco, we were considered a freak and criminal.
@@EquestrianSport yeah, good you mentioned it, people only see the "good" side of things, same with the 80s lovers, they don't know the fear of living in the cold war era, it wasn't only neon and crazy hairs
@@EquestrianSport Why kid yourself? Like Boon, Watt and Hurley, I came up in mid 70's Pedro - ground zero for the South Bay LA punk scene. Even there - It's not as if that old school Italian Catholic longshoreman's backwater was especially hospitable to our crowd, either. And if you were trying to hack out a living from it? Unless you landed a coveted spot on the bill at the Dancing Waters (RIP) - the Fleetwood in Redondo or maybe the Bear down in Huntington, it was still mostly a pay to play gig. Forget about what the road map will tell you - it was a LONNNG journey from there to Madame Wong's or the Starwood. Never mind the hallowed ground of the Whisky.
I was confused by this at first, thinking it might actually be the US, but then on the street see it's my own country (UK), it also looking more and more like the 70's (cars mainly). Clearly a seaside resort. Turns out it's Great Yarmouth, a place I went a couple of times at least in my childhood and youth. The last time I was there was maybe 1982, not long after this was made, so it looks very familiar, particularly the fairground at about a minute and a half, where some girls came up behind me and pinched my arse, so kind of a reverse of this situation. The original film is called 'Knights Electric', a 24-minute short film from 1980. If you search for 'Knights Electric (1980) restored and digitally remastered' you can watch it online.
@@whochangedmyscreenname Nonsense - there simply WAS no DIY blueprint circa 1975. The few and far between - like the Stooges - were gutted like fish by the major label players. There's a reason why Television's self produced EP 'Little Johnny Jewel' is still regarded as such a landmark of this era. (RIP Tom V.)
@@chriscoughlin9289 How does that translate to punk not meaning anything anymore today. It's easier than ever to be DIY and bands still carry that torch.
@@feathersmcgraw4090 I never said it means nothing - merely that it no longer holds the SAME meaning. Whatever arises in its place won't come from the same imperatives. NYC and LA circa 1975-77 are just ineffable vapors now - even to a guy like me who lived it the first time 'round. Today, there's no need for a Richard Hell - the persona or the scene he helped invent. There's a need for something else, no doubt - but the point is that Richard himself has no nostalgia and no formula to offer anybody else. In fact, he's often said that Bowery and Bleecker is just another corner to him today. How silly it would be for some 16 year old to let it have more power over him/her than it has for the guy who first put it on the cultural map in the first place. I'm old enough to remember the roots of the hardcore scene in Orange County during those years. Suddenly everything became about enforcing a code - the green mohawk, the safety pins, the Doc Martens... It morphed into everything the nonconformist Hell, Verlaine and Patti Smith (and on the West Coast, The Weirdos and X and The Minutemen) despised. As Van would say -No method, no guru, no teacher.
Lyrics: I don't wanna play aroun' no more I see that black cross painted on your door We was good friends for a long, long time But baby you got hungry for a life of crime Get the message now? The car you drive is painted red and grey But if you ask me to get in Well I'll jst run away We was good friends for a long, long time But baby you got hungry for a life of crime Get the message now?
Where is this clip from? It's not the weirdos. It seems to be taken from some old Austrailian movie. I'm guessing this because they drive on the left side of the road and it looks like they're at a beach resort town. It could also be the UK. Anyhow it looks like its from the early 80's and something I'm surprised I've missed.
Kevin Croughn I wish I knew as well. Would love to know. The weirdos were an LA band. This looks like Brighton or Hastings England to me. I sure miss those days. Wish they lasted longer then they did. I’d go back in a flash. Getting old sucks.
Pretty sure it’s Daniel Peacock in the sheepskin coat. He played Mental Mickey in Rodney Trotter’s band in Only Fools And Horses, so this is an old clip. The bike number plates are British.
the good old days when you had a wacky style, and we really didn't give a shit about looking wacky because that's how we are, instead the "punks" of today...
