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Dancers that Made the 70’s British Club Scene
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W H A T T H E F * C K I S A “ K O S H E R T A T T O O ” ? : The Link between Judaism and Counterculturalism
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N A R C O C O R R I D O : Ballads from a Kingpin Forgotten Female Dada Artists
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Remembering the New York Underground
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I went to our friendly neighbourhood record store the other day and found an interesting vinyl. It was used, abused and just casually thrown with the other dusty, old records. This record was from a band called the Viletones. Funny thing, when I saw it I immediately recognized a song that another punk band had sung. The song on this record was called “Screamin Fist” and I know the Bad Brains sang this song in their early days as a band. Wanting to hear The Viletones’ version of the song, I bought the album. This happy accident got me curious about the band, so I looked into it even more. As it turns out, “Screamin Fist” was actually an original by The Viletones and Bad Brains were the ones who had covered that song [and was very much influenced by them]. This made me think of why The Bad Brains became one of the poster child of the 70’s punk movement, lumped with other well-known bands like The Sex Pistols, Black Flag and Dead Kennedys, while The Viletones faded into obscurity. It seemed unfair. It’s like the proverbial tree in the woods, but no one is there to listen, then is it a one forget? How does one get heard? The Bad the Viletones, but no one did, or worst, no
if a good band is playing good band at all? How does Brains saw something in one remembered.
Maybe the timing was just wrong and the end of the day it’s something that none of us can control. My little adventure was the inspiration for our February issue. In this issue we are celebrating counterculturalism and how countercultures live and breathe as an organism. It will explore how counterculture forms, adapt to survive and is eventually forgotten. I hope this issue continues to inspire you to be curious, ask questions and learn about how the world works.
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YOU MAY NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT, BUT TORONTO WAS HOME TO A PUNK SCENE IN THE LATE 70S. THESE PUNKS, WEARING LEATHER AND STUDS, CRAWLED ON TO THE INDUSTRIAL QUEEN WEST STRIP FROM THE SUBURBS AND THE HALLS OF OCA.
Over the past six years, Toronto filmmakers Colin Brunton and Kire Paputts have been putting together The Last Pogo Jumps Again, an epic three and a half hour documentary on Toronto’s early punk scene. We sat down with filmmakers Colin and Kire to discuss some of their favourite tunes from the era.
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DEE DEE RAMONE THREW A SYRINGE AT HIM AT A SET AT CBGB, WHICH LECKIE THEN PROMPTLY USED TO INJECT HIMSELF ON STAGE.
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KIRE: Growing up, I knew about The Viletones, but I didn’t really know what that meant until I was a little bit older. Like, I would hear my dad telling stories about being in a band and I was like “OK, he was in a band, whatever.” But then as I got older, people started to be like “Oh, that’s actually a really cool band.” COLIN: [The Scenics] used to rehearse four or five nights a week, for like three years, in this basement of a toy shop, and that’s when I used to drive a cab.
If I was in the area, I would drop by and smoke tons of dope with them and listen to them work out songs.
THE LAST POGO JUMPS AGAIN
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THE VILETONES NEW YORK DOLLS - 1971
DEATH- 1971
THE RAMONES- 1974
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For whatever reason, punk has a problematic history of incorporating Nazi iconography into its aesthetic, probably because most punks are 20-yearold white kids trying to shock people. In Toronto, Viletones frontman Steven Leckie called himself the “Nazi Dog of the Wild” and wrote a song called “Auschwitz Junkie.” Leckie had a reputation as the loose cannon of Toronto’s punk community. Like Iggy Pop, he would often cut himself
beer bottle and often invoked fights between audience members he disliked (particularly people with beards). In one possibly apocryphal story, Dee Dee Ramone threw a syringe at him at a set at CBGB, which Leckie then promptly used to inject himself on stage.
“SHOESHINE BOYS” In 1977, Emmanuel Jacques, an 11-year-old shoeshiner, was kidnapped, raped repeatedly, and murdered. It was an event that shocked the city, highlighting the plight of recent immigrants in the mostly white protestant T oronto and bringing to light the underworld of vice that had accrued along Yonge Street. One of the few all-female punk groups, The Curse, stoked further controversy in the city with “Shoeshine Boys.”
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NEXT ISSUE I hope this issue has been eye opening and inspires you to grow even more. Nevertheless, we shall close this chapter and move onwards to the next exciting issue of Nameless. Recently I was reconnected with a part of my travel to New York. Since this month was especially hard and stressful for me, I decided to go to the beach to relax. Whenever I go to the beach, I always think about the time I was watching the sunset at Coney Island. Coney Island has a certain kind of magic that is hard to describe. It’s a mix of the blue skies, sincere carnival performers and lazy fishermen that makes it so charming. It is wrought with hidden subcultures that we will be exploring next. So, stay tuned for another issue of Nameless!
-Vania Putri [Editor]
Celebrating the Mavericks, the Rebels and the Forgotten