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Title: Punk /Hippie Jam Collision: With Great Results
Review: This album, an originally double vinyl set but here on one disc, is a wonderful example of instrumental only punk experimentalism. That is, primarily punk musicians pushing the boundaries of what their music could be, without the constraints of words, into multifarious styles or jams of impressive execution. One could say that this album is treading the line between the aesthetics of hippies & punkers.From Greg Ginn's inside-out Deep Purple riffs with Black Flag/Gone to the scenic Cali-jams of Pell Mell, Paper Bag, Lawndale, & the Alter-natives to the NYC art-damage scene via Renaldo, Sharp, & Kaiser to the free jazz crescendos of Universal Congress Of--this album blew my mind when it first came out, & still does.With modern instrumental bands like Mogwai & godspeed you! black emperor still holding to the spirit of punk, no matter where they stylistically go with their music, makes me realize that such an attitude, perhaps, started here. . . .
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