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Well I was there and it totally wasn't shit... The Jam weren't punks they were more revisionist Mod's and The Undertones were New Wave... What you have to realise is that the musical climate was completely different then... people tend to judge punk by today's fast food commodoty standards, and this is wrong... it's a little naive to write off the impact that Punk made at the time. For me it was just as much about the attitude and the politics of identity and rebellion as it was about the actual music per se... and yes a lot of the music was shit but that was made by people who didn't understand the ideals of the original bands... it was all over by the time the Pistols played their final gig in San Francisco in January 1978 anyway.
Looking back on it all now I think that musically Post Punk was far more interesting.
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