Punk/New Wave-1976-1982-What it Was All About

by Pete Holly

The bands that emerged around 1976-1982 and usually are classified as
Punk or New Wave or Both-Like my Band-"Pete Holly and the Look's" all shared a
simular background in that when the music that influened most-The Beatle's-The
Beach Boy's-Paul Revere and the Raiders-and The Who etc. first came out we were
all just very young kids-below the age of ten.By the time we were old enough to
start our own Bands-The music that had originally inspired us was gone.It wasn't
played on the radio or anywhere else.Most of the time the only way we could still
hear it was by playing the records we had bought when we were just young kids.
I still had many of the first records i had bought{or got my Mom to buy for me,
she was pretty understanding about that}and so did other people my age."Meet
the Beatle's","Please Please Me","The Beach Boy's Today","Summer Day's{And
Summer Nights}"-Plus we started to collect records we wished we had like "The
Kinks Greatest Hit's{a Must Have},and "The Who Sell Out".Obscure singles like
"Sorrow" by the Merseybeats were also very inspirational.In "The Look's" it
was undoubtably the one cover song we played the most times-especially in the
early day's.
For some reason,after the singer-songwriters,,Progressive Rock,and Disco
All of us Musicians starting our first Bands-were drawn back to the first Rock 'n Roll
we had heard and fell in love with.

Written by Pete Holly-2010-Copyright-All Rights Reserved