SD is more rockabilly-ish, early rock&roll-ish than punk anymore - unless they took a turn. It's like Burning Spear - once they got their thing down, they never changed it.
I saw them in 81 or 82 at the Mabuhay Garden, before their first album came out and before that club closed. They were great then, playing raw old school rock, with a great cover of Bad Moon Rising. I saw them again a few years later at the Varsity in Palo Alto (before that closed) and they were terrible - Mike Ness was a total junkie at that point. The rest of the band was okay, but he couldn't remember the words, or sing so you could understand them, or even play very well. I thought it was interesting that all the punks I talked to thought it was a great show; they apparently saw what they wanted to see, not what I saw.
I saw them in 81 or 82 at the Mabuhay Garden, before their first album came out and before that club closed. They were great then, playing raw old school rock, with a great cover of Bad Moon Rising. I saw them again a few years later at the Varsity in Palo Alto (before that closed) and they were terrible - Mike Ness was a total junkie at that point. The rest of the band was okay, but he couldn't remember the words, or sing so you could understand them, or even play very well. I thought it was interesting that all the punks I talked to thought it was a great show; they apparently saw what they wanted to see, not what I saw.
the hands that guide me are invisible