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Adios, Pete. The Buzzcocks were easily one of my favorite first-generation punk bands growing up, capable of combining melodic sensibilities and chainsaw guitars to produce memorable songs by the truckload. And as he would've wanted it, I'll remember the music above all else.
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Damn it, it's almost as if someone is trying to destroy the soundtrack of my formative years piece by piece.

Luckily, they won't succeed.
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I knew his time was going to be up due to his early-onset dementia, but I wasn't prepared for his passing a few days ago.


His rhythm guitar was exactly the sort of concrete you need to build a metaphorical expressway of a rock song on, and it's shown nowhere better than this example from 1977.
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I still have a hard time believing this.

I'm having an even harder one accepting it.

Sunshower
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Pretty much what the subject line says.

Triptykon, "Tree of Suffocating Souls"

The Cramps, "TV Set"

Valediction, "Above the Horizon"

Samhain, "Descent"

Skinny Puppy, "Convulsion"

Carcass, "Unfit for Human Consumption"

Type O Negative, "I Don't Wanna Be Me"

Metallica, "All Nightmare Long"

Dead Kennedys, "Halloween"

The Witch Trials, "Humanoids from the Deep"

Motorhead, "In The Year of the Wolf"

Vader, "The Eye of the Abyss"

And last, but not least...a fairly obvious one.

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Truly. But I'll let the music speak for itself:



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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and whatever other holiday wishes you can think of, peeps. Appropriate (?) musical accomplishment follows shortly, so feel free to vote for your favorite after the worst (best?) effects of the egg nog kicks in:

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Time to call out the locals, regardless of genre:










(Okay, so the following is a bit of a cheat, since they were actually from Lansing, Michigan. Craig Calvert does live and play professionally here these days, though [primarily with Jan James], so it's all good.)

(Whereas the following isn't a "cheat" at all.)

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The 'Mats are back - except for Bob, of course (RIP). So why not?

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"I can't hear you!"

"What?"

I said I can't hear you!"

"What?"

"I SAID I CAN"T HEAR YOU, ALREADY!"

"GOOD! I WAS HOPING THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY HAPPEN!"





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A couple of very wrong ones from Mr. Thirwell:



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Because it's just one of those songs that sticks in your head and may hurt you a lot to get it back out.

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Newk.

(Don't really need anything more descriptive than that, do you?)


I'm not sure if the (probably bootlegged) performance from above is complete, but this version runs longer and has the infamous fall off the stage that resulted in what the video description already points out.

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