Never a fan of punk as I grew up with The Beatles, Who, Kinks, Animals, Small Faces etc but did like The Stranglers. Read the other day how punks disliked them because they used keyboards and synths which was definitely uncool in 1977. Dave Greenfield gave them a very distinctive sound but you weren’t supposed to be able to play your instruments well if you wanted to be taken seriously which seems odd as the bands/band members that could play generally seemed to last after the initial punk/new wave era moved on. Punk and New Wave seems to get lumped together, but there was a big difference between the likes of the Sex Pistols and The Stranglers and The Jam. | |