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Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement.
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Proto-punk, or pre-punk, laid the foundations of punk rock, yet it has not always been obvious which artists contributed as forerunners of the 1970s genre and many important bands have been forgotten. The genre now known as proto-punk is intimately linked with 1960s garage rock.
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Death is an American band formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1971 by brothers Bobby (bass, vocals), David (March 19, 1952-October 9, 2000) (guitar), and Dannis Hackney (drums, percussion). The trio initially started as a funk group but quickly switched their style to rock after seeing concerts by the Who and Alice Cooper.
Aug 31, 2016 · Proto-punk: 10 records that paved the way for ’76. Written by. Anton Spice. Published on. August 31, 2016. Category. Features. Share. Punk may have seen ‘no future’, but it was not year zero. Four decades since it exploded onto the scene, Nick Soulsby traces the records that laid the foundations for a movement that tore the whole house down.
BAD ASS BITCHES FROM THE DISTANT PAST !!! Before there was Punk Rock, there was PROTO-PUNK, a largely retrospective term for a genre that blossomed between 1963 and 1976: a raw, energetic, frenetic relative of Garage Rock where Three Chords and the Truth were the ammo and rebellion was the spirit.
Proto-punk refers to a small group of groundbreaking, largely uncategorizable bands who began to emerge in the late '60s, up to the point when punk itself became a phenomenon (around 1975-76).
