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(not inclusive of every band, but...)
-In 1941, Library of Congress workers searching the Mississippi Delta for Robert Johnson (who is already dead from poisoning by a jealous tavern owner) discover instead a fieldhand who plays Robert Johnson songs who goes by the name of "Muddy" Waters.
-After a fight with the plantation owner a couple of years later in 1943, Muddy Waters moves out of Mississippi & brings the electric blues to Chicago (instrumental to both rock & punk)
-Link Wray gets fuzzy on his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble"
-With their 1963 hit, The Kingsmen do "Louie, Louie" and sing Richard Berry's song so unintelligibly that it gets banned by paranoid censors
-The Sonics, from way up in Tacoma, bust out with songs like "Strychnine", "Psycho" & "The Witch" and along with Paul Revere & the Raiders, establish the first Seattle "scene"
-At nearly the same time over in England, Davie Davies of The Kinks slices his amp with a razor blade to get the fuzztone for "You Really Got Me"; they go on to produce the first popular classic compositions centered around moveable barre "power" chords
-The Beatles mock the "Taxman"
-The Yardbirds & The Who start abusing equpment whilst exhibiting snotty, bad attitudes in general
-The VU bring a new dynamic and help to galvanize Max's Kansas City as a landmark venue
-Hendrix sets his guitar ablaze in erotic sacrifice at The Monterrey Pop Festival
-MLK & RFK assassinated
-The Beatles go "Helter Skelter"
-The "Manson family" go "Helter Skelter"
-UK PM Margaret Thatcher (together with the French government) decides to build Concorde SST which causes the British ecomony to go into recession & later into depression
-Jim Morrison is arrested for obscenity, public exposure & attempting to incite a riot during The Doors' 1969 show at Miami's Dinner Key auditorium
-The Rolling Stones at Altamont top-off the anti-Woodstock chemistry
-the Detroit scene follows with MC5, The Stooges & Alice Cooper; Iggy rolls around in broken glass
-Dave Marsh describes the music of ? and the Mysterians as "punk" in the May 1971 issue of Creem magazine
-then comes the CBGB/Max's "genesis" with
The New York Dolls & Suicide as "proper" punk starts to take form
-Over in England, The Pop Group is doing the diy
-then comes the "new wave" of "the scene" who perform on the Bowery in NYC and usually at CBGB:
Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Ramones, Patti Smith Group, Talking Heads, Television, Blondie, & all the bands fronted by the irrepressible little freak known as James Chance
-the "Punk" fanzine is founded in NYC by Greg Dunn & Legs McNeil
-at the same time over in Ohio (all those trips the VU took out there & the Detroit, MI influence no doubt)
you got another scene with Devo, & Rocket from the Tombs splitting into Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys
-Over in Boston, The Modern Lovers do their new wave & in Brisbane, Australia, The Saints are doing their thing
-In England, the infamous Svengali known as Malcolm McLaren starts an S&M clothing shop called Sex, meets an actual street gutter punk named John "Sex" Lydon, proclaims him "Rotten," and dresses him & assorted local ruffians, thus forming Sex Pistols.
-bassist Sid Vicious kills his girlfriend, an American named Nancy Spungeon, in NYC...he later kills himself by OD'ing while awaiting trial
-Their fans go on to become bands like Siouxsie & the Banshees, X-ray Spex, The Clash and Generation X that like to wear the clothes to offput the passerby & establish an instantly recognizable image & it goes from there as people see Sex Pistols shows & movies & later the whole look gets co-opted by Judas Priest & (Jello brings it to America (thanks) ...The Damned too) then the rest of the Hardcore & Heavy Metal crowds that come after the Punk scene...
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