Installment Vol.6 Page 5
1977 was a crazy year. It was the year when PUNK came into its own. We were over the hump, CBGBs was in the black, and I didn’t have to support the club by moving pianos and refrigerators up and down stairs or moving art works to and from art shows. The first band in 1977 that was very special was a group from Atlanta, Georgia called “The Fans”. John Cale, while touring through the south heard them and brought me a tape of the band. On a trip to Atlanta I stopped off to hear them live in a local club and was duly impressed. So at the end of January I brought them to New York City and booked them into CBGBs with the “Feelies” another great new band. They comprised of keyboard synth, guitar, bass, and drums, but projected their music in a hard punk manner that , I would say, mixed elements of punk with what people later on called new wave. I booked them several times at CBGBs and continued to encourage them but as so often happens, their internal disagreements as to their musical direction, resulted in their breaking up.TOO BAD!!
John Cale & Nico
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