Ever heard the one where your favorite punk band says it was people like Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Freddie Mercury and Slade that inspired them to pick up a guitar?
The years between the death of the hippie dream and the explosion of punk were a rocky transition. Music was a scattered landscape, as it always has been, and musicians were splintering into every direction.
As they explored where to go after the blissed out Summer of Love had proven to be a fleeting distraction some artists chose to turn up the amps and vamp it up in some audacious outfits. Ultimately, this would lead to punk but for now, Sweet, T. Rex, Jobriath, Mud and all the others just wanted to rock n' roll and have a good time.
