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Title: Another Great Early History Of Punk
Review: Clinton Heylin's FROM THE VELVETS TO THE VOIDOIDS is another of the essential oral histories of punk. Unlike Legs McNeil's PLEASE KILL ME, this work is a bit more scholarly and opinionated. It doesn't offer the vicarious lurid glitter of PKM, but it does fill in a number of the blanks in the story, and the two works together present an authoritative portrait of the birthplaces - New York, Cleveland and Detroit - of punk.The primary value here is the extensive digging into the otherwise skipped-over Cleveland scene - home to key groups like the Electric Eels, Mirrors and Rocket From The Tombs - an amalgamation of musicians some of whom later morphed into The Dead Boys and the incomparable Pere Ubu. The Detroit sections are similarly valuable.Highly recommended.-David Alston
