1970s Pop In Practice Punk

Punk Rock or Punk for short is a Rock Genre that developed around the mid 1970s mainly in the U.K and U.S.A.  Punk was more of a rebellion against the music that was happening at the time like the big difficult complex Prog Rock songs and the Glam Rock fashion scene. Punk decided to strip it all down by taking the complexity out with 3 or 4 chords with out of tune aggresive vocals and they would play short songs about what was happening at the time like democracy and the working man loosing his job. This was the very first time people who have no musical training could use music to get there message out wich some people class as the D.I.Y approach. The typical instruments you could tend to expect in Punk are
Voice
Electric Guitars with Heavy Overdrive
Bass Guitar
Drums

Where did punk come from?
Well there are many arguments where Punk first progressed from and wich country it first started in, some people say America and others say England. The reason why some people may favour America is because thats where the very short period of Garage Rock or Protopunk came from. This Genre was being formed around the late 60s early 70s with bands like MC5, The Stooges and The Velvet Underground, these bands also had to D.I.Y approach but werent as 'raw' as Punk. Punk has alot of similarities as Garage Rock or Protopunk and this is why people believe it started in America. The ones who favour England is because of the British Punk movement with bands like The Sex Pistols, The Clash and 999 and the fact that this is where the orginal label of Punk came from.

This clip is of The Stooges with there 1969 song I wanna be your dog.






and this is The Sex Pistols with there 1976 revolutionary Punk song God Save the Queen






As you can see from the Sex Pistols video the imagine of Punk was very make-shift and out there and this includes shaving and cutting each others hair. Before Johnny Rotten helped form the Sex Pistols he was seen walking round with a Pink Floyd T-Shirt with hole put through the eyes of the members on the front with 'I HATE' above the words Pink Floyd wich also shows proof of my earlier statement about it being the opposite and a movment against Prog Rock. Below I have some pictures of the Punk look.

Vivienne Westwood was a fashion designer who used to make Punk clothing and sell it to the public based upon what bands at the time where wearing on stage.


What has Punk gone onto?
I'd say the Punk attitude has influenced a lot of musical genres like in the 1980s Glam Metal that had that 'I do what I want' attitude and obviously the 1990s Grunge was heavily influenced from Punk which took it back to anyone being able to put there feelings into music. In the 2000s Pop Punk became more main stream and only musically is it still rooted to Punk while lyrically being catchy to sell records.
Here is 1990s Grunge band Nirvana with Smells like Teen Spitit






and here is 2000 Pop Punk band Green Day with there song Redundant