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Originally Posted by Electrophonic Tonic
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?
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Could call it proto-punk but really it's just Link Wray playing a typical surf rock 12-bar harder, faster, and with more distortion.
Bands like The Stooges and MC5 broke into new territory by disassembling the traditional 12 bars and boogies and just playing chunks of them over and over again while going ballistic on their instruments. Without a major change to the music you don't have a new genre, you just have the same genre played harder. In the case of punk it wasn't so much a "change", it was more like a removal of certain elements, simplifying it, telling everybody to go **** themselves, and then setting the music on fire.