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Originally Posted by Moon Pix
The biggest influence on punk rock was the fact that most of them could barely play their instruments. The lack of chops was more influencial than any band.
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True...but of course, The Ramones were the first to go ahead and play with a total disregard for their utter lack of skill and experience. They kind of showed others you didn't need chops...just the will to pick up and play. The commonly accepted year that punk really broke through as a widespread genre was '77, yet they had their first record out in '76. Johnny Ramone has said that when they started they set out to be a bubblegum band...but then they became essentially the flagship band of Legs McNeil and the other founders of
Punk magazine, the publication which brought the term into widespread use, and was possibly the first place the word punk was used to describe a style of music.