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In article <49nr3v$fa2@acmex.gatech.edu>,
Mike Marler <marler@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>gt8118a@prism.gatech.edu ([Dr. Retro) writes:

>}Wasn't aware of that.  Some interesting trivia I did just learn though.
>}Her first drummer was Sid Vicious (this according to a friend of mine
>}who is an even bigger Siouxsie fan than I).  There was also an album
>}that Robert Smith played guitar on.  BTW, the Cure started out punk as

Sid played drums as bad as he "played" bass with his next band.

>bands.  Best Siouxsie line up was with Robert IMHO.  Although most of us
>would call early Cure punk, I consider them a "little lighter" (for lack
>of a better term) compared to say to other punk bands of that time
>period (ie Pistols or Damned).  Robert Smith can definitely play.

What made the Cure light was Robert's fragile vocals, Tolhurst's weak
drumming, and rotating bass players.  When they got Simon Gallup at bass
and Boris Williams at drums, they became a much more powerful group.

>}well.  Even Joy Division, the first band labeled Gothic, started as a 
>}punk band called Warswaw.
>...and before that, had the name Stiff Kittens.

Not to mention the surviving members became New Order, an extremely
successful group.

>}They've got a Warsaw cd at HMV that i'm thinking about getting.
>Prepare thy ears for raw enjoyment. :-)

Will, buy it!  It's an illegal bootleg with much unreleased stuff.  Unlike
later albums, it's hard-edge punk.  Get it while you can, it's great.

-- 
George E. Nichols
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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