Originally Posted by Electrophonic Tonic

I think between The Sonics, The Stooges, MC5 and VU, you can't really go wrong between them as who is the "first" punk band.

I think it gets more interesting if you go back to the early 60's and guys like Link Wray. Stuff like this sounds totally like punk. But, is Link Wray playing punk/proto punk, or is he just hanging on to the original sound from the 50's that he came from and we associate that sound with punk?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.