Some More Punk, New Wave & Alt Rock Figures

David Thomas ~ 71 ~ Singer with Ohio bands Pere Ubu and Rocket From The Tombs

ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS ~ "I SELL SOUL";


PERE UBU ~ "HEART OF DARKNESS";


PERE UBU ~ "UBUDANCE";


PERE UBU ~ "WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOY";



Clem Burke ~ 70 ~ Drummer with Blondie and later Iggy Pop, the Ramones, Romantics, Eurythmics, Pete Townshend, Joan Jett, Wanda Jackson, Nancy Sinatra, L.A.M.F, International Swingers, Chequered Past

BLONDIE ~ "HEART OF GLASS";


BLONDIE ~ "HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE";


BLONDIE ~ "DREAMING";


BLONDIE ~ "CALL ME";


CHEQUERED PAST ~ "HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH";



Brian James ~ 70 ~ UK guitarist with Punk and Post Punk bands The Damned and the Lords Of The New hurch

THE DAMNED ~ "NEW ROSE";


THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH ~ "OPEN YOUR EYES";


THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH ~ "RUSSIAN ROULETTE";


THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH ~ "DANCE WITH ME";


Dave Allen ~ 69 ~ Bassist with UK Post Punk band Gang Of Four and New Wave band Shriekback

GANG OF FOUR ~ "DAMAGED GOODS";


GANG OF FOUR ~ "TO HELL WITH POVERTY";


SHRIEKBACK ~ "MY SPINE IS MY BASSLINE";


Perry Bamonte ~ 65 ~ Guitarist with the Cure and Love

THE CURE ~ "FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE";


THE CURE ~ "A LETTER TO ELISE";


THE CURE ~ "HIGH";


Dave Ball ~ 68 ~ Keyboard player with 1980's Techno Pop band Soft Cell ("Tainted Love") and producer for the Virgin Prunes, David Bowie, Erasure, Psychic TV

SOFT CELL ~ "TAINTED LOVE";


SOFT CELL ~ "BED SITTER";


STEPHEN LUSCOMBE ~ 70 ~ Keyboard player with 1980's UK Technopop band Blancmange

BLANCMANGE ~ "LIVING ON THE CEILING";


BLANCMANGE ~ "LOSE YOUR LOVE";


Richard Darbyshire ~ 65 ~ Singer with 1980's English Techno Pop band Living in a Box

LIVING IN A BOX ~ "LIVING IN A BOX";


Hilly Michaels - 77 - Drummer with 1970's Art Rock band Sparks and Ellen Foley, Marianne Faithfull, John Cougar Mellencamp, Ron Wood, Ronson/Hunter Band, Dan Hartman, Cherry Vanilla

SPARKS ~ "I WANT TO BE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE";


CHERRY VANILLA ~ "LIVERPOOL";


ELLEN FOLEY ~ "WE BELONG TO THE NIGHT";


Honest John Plain ~ 73 ~ Guitarist with 1970's Australian Punk band the Boys

THE BOYS ~ "TERMINAL LOVE";


THE BOYS ~ "BRICKFIELD NIGHTS";


THE BOYS ~ "WHEN YOU'RE LONELY";


Bob Andrews ~ 75 ~ Keyboard player with UK 1970's bands Brinsley Schwartz (w/Nick Lowe) and Graham Parker & the Rumour, producer w/Carlene Carter, Tenpole Tudor, Jona Lewie, the Bluebells, the Las

BRINSLEY SCHWARTZ ~ "SURRENDER TO THE RHYTHM";


BRINSLEY SCHWARTZ ~ "WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT PEACE LOVE & UNDERSTANDING";


GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR ~ "NEW YORK SHUFFLE";


GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR ~ "LOCAL GIRLS";


Gilson Lewis ~ 74 ~ Drummer w/UK band Squeeze and Jools Holland

SQUEEZE ~ "COOL FOR CATS";


SQUEEZE ~ "ANOTHER NAIL IN MY HEART";


SQUEEZE ~ "TAKE ME I'M YOURS";


Robert Taylor ~ 74 ~ Guitarist & composer with New Zealand New Wave band Dragon

DRAGON ~ "RAIN";


DRAGON ~ "THIS TIME";


Tom Ward ~ 60's ~ California bassist with Cowpunk/Garage band the Nashville Ramblers, Saturn V, Elotes Trio, Penny Royales

THE NASHVILLE RAMBLERS ~ "NO OTHER GIRL";


THE NASHILLE RAMBLERS ~ "THE TRAINS":


Max Eider ~ 70's ~ Guitarist with UK New Wave band The Jazz Butcher and David J

THE JAZZ BUTCHER ~ "THE JAZZ BUTCHER MEETS COUNT DRACULA";


THE JAZZ BUTCHER ~ "SPOOKY";


Mike Peters ~ 66 ~ Singer guitarist with Welsh Post Punk band the Alarm ("68 Guns", "Rain In The Summertime")

THE ALARM ~ "68 GUNS";


THE ALARM ~ "THE STAND";


THE ALARM ~ "WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE";



Tommy Price ~ 68 ~ American drummer w/Joan Jett, Scandal, Billy Idol, BLue Oyster Cult, Mink Deville, The Psychedelic Furs, Peter Wolf, Ron Wood, Steve Stevens, Kasim Sultan

JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS ~ "I HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU";


JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS ~ "LIGHT OF DAY";


SCANDAL ~ "THE WARRIOR";

Chris Mayhew ~ 60 ~ Drummer with 1980's UK New Wave band Sigue Sigue Sputnik

SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK ~ "21st CENTURY BOY";


SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK ~ "LOVE MISSLE F1-11";


SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK ~ "ATARI BABY";


SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK ~ "SUCCESS";


Silu Seppälä ~ 71 ~ Finnish bassist with the Leningrad Cowboys

THE LENINGRAD COWBOYS ~ "BORN TO BE WILD";


THE LENINGRAD CROWBOYS ~ "MACHINE GUN BLUES";


Bruce Loose Calderwood ~ 60's ~ Singer/bassist with LA Noise Punk band Flipper

FLIPPER ~ "HA HA HA";


FLIPPER ~ "LOVE CANAL";


FLIPPER ~ "SACRIFICE";


Pierre Kezdy ~ Bassist for Naked Raygun & Pegboy

NAKED RAYGUN ~ "RAT PATROL";


NAKED RAYGUN ~ "PEACEMAKER";


PEGBOY ~ "STRONG REACTION";


Jim Kimball ~ 59 ~ Drummer w/American Post Punk bands the Laughing Hyenas, Mule, The Jesus Lizard

THE LAUGHING HYENAS ~ "EVERYTHING I WANT";


THE LAUGHING HYENAS ~ "LULLABYE & GOODNIGHT" & "STAIN";


Colin Jerwood ~ 63 ~ Singer with English Hardcore band Conflict

CONFLICT;


CONFLICT ~ "TOUGH SHIT MIKEY";


Al Barile - 63 - Guitarist with 80's Boston Straight Edge Hardcore band SS Decontrol

SS DECONTROL ~ "HEADED STRAIGHT";


SS DECONTROL ~ "BOILING POINT";


Rogério Meanda - 60's - Guitarist with Brazilian 1980's band Blitz

BLITZ ~ "VOCE NAO SOUBE ME AMAR";


Dany Lademacher ~ 75 ~ Belgian guitarist (Herman Brood and his Wild Romance, Vitesse, The Radios)

HERMAN BROOD & HIS WILD ROMANCE ~ "ROCK & ROLL JUNKIE";


HERMAN BROOD & NINA HAGEN ~ "GIMMIE YOUR LOVE";


Tony Romeo ~ 50's ~ Bassist with Detroit Glam Punk band the Trash Brats and Easy Action

THE TRASH BRATS ~ "DON'T WANT TO DANCE";


THE TRASH BRATS ~ "PERSONALITY CRISIS";


Duane Bodenheimer ~ 50's ~ Singer with Seattle Punk band the Derelicts

THE DERELICTS ~ "FINAL FALL";


Mike Herrell ~ 50's ~ Bassist with Nashille Post Thrash band Today Is The Day

TODAY IS THE DAY ~ "6 DEMENTIA SATYR";


Russ Conver ~ 60's ~ Drummer for Arizona Punk band Bitter Allegiance, Jeff Dahl Group, Gilby Clarke Band

JEFF DAHL GROUP ~ "GOING UNDERGROUND";


BITTER ALLEGIANCE ~ "ABSOLUTE INSANITY";


Patrick Walden ~ 46 ~ Guitarist with UK band Babyshambles

BABYSHAMBLES ~ "FUCK FOREVER";


BABYSHAMBLES ~ "KILLAMANJARO";


Ian Lees ~ 72 ~ Bassist with Australian 80's band Moving Pictures

MOVING PICTURES ~ "WHAT ABOUT ME";


Scott Sorry ~ 47 ~ Singer/guitarist/songwriter with American Pop Punk bands The Wildhearts, Sorry and the Sinatras, Amen

THE WILDHEARTS ~ "I WANNA GO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE";


THE WILDHEART ~ "SICK OF DRUGS";


SORRY & THE SINATRAS ~ "HATED HEART";


Brent McLachlan - Drummer with New Zealand 1990's Noise Rock band Bailter Space

BAILTER SPACE ~ "E.I.P";


Douglas McCarthy ~ 58 ~ Singer with UK Electro band Nitzer Ebb

NITZER EBB ~ "MURDEROUS";


NITZER EBB ~ "JOIN IN THE CHANT";

RIP to New Wave producer Martin Rushent

PETE SHELLEY ~ HOMOSAPIEN;



UK record producer Martin Rushent died June 4 aged 62. Producer for the classic New Wave hit albums of the 1980's by The Buzzcocks, Stranglers, Human League and Soft Cell.
The Buzzcocks and Stranglers albums made his name but he really hit the big time with the classic and massively successful series of hit albums with The Human League and Soft Cell. Besides selling tons of copies these records (that's right kids, actual records!) were also hugely influential to a new generation of electro music artist and dj's for better or worse. This is in spite of the fact that the technology then used will probably never be used again and would be considered by today's electronic musicians as being as hopelessly out of date as the player piano.

THE HUMAN LEAGUE ~ DON'T YOU WANT ME;



Today's electro musicians do can do everything from a single computer program using premade samples, drum tacks and auto-tuning which removes any actual human fingerprints. Rushent's records with The Human League and Soft Cell were done with analog technology (ask your parents) and required not only that each sample clip be separately edited in but also that the entire mix be programed in step by step lest it go out of time. Then you add in flourishes like a horn section which also had to be programed in step by laborious step and you have days and days of work for something that could be dashed off in a day now.

SOFT CELL ~ TAINTED LOVE;



At the time many music writers and musicians didn't see these records as being legitimate in the way that guitar oriented New Wavers like say, The Pretenders, Blondie, Police, Talking Heads or even avowedly keyboard heavy bands like Ultravox. Now, in retrospect we can see them as much a part of pop (if not exactly Rock and Roll) as the heavily orchestrated girl groups of the 1960's.

THE STRANGLERS ~ NO MORE HEROES;



And if that weren't enough remember Rushent also produced the classic albums by The Buzzcocks Generation X, 999, Dr. Feelgood, the dB's and the Stranglers, and nobody could deny those. He had actually been around since the early 1970's and had worked with T Rex, Fleetwood Mac, Gentle Giant and even Shirley Bassey.

999 ~ HOMICIDE;



Partial Martin Rushent discography;

1971;
T-Rex ~ Electric Warrior
Gentle Giant ~ Acquiring the Taste
Fleetwood Mac ~ Future Games
1972;
Gentle Giant ~ Three Friends
Gentle Giant ~ Octopus
Shirley Bassey ~ I Capricorn
1975;
Shirley Bassey ~ Good, Bad but Beautiful
1977;
The Stranglers ~ Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers ~ No More Heroes
1978;
The Stranglers ~ Black and White
The Buzzcocks ~ Another Music in a Different Kitchen
Generation X ~ Generation X
The Buzzcocks ~ Love Bites
999 ~ Separates
Dr Feelgood ~ Private Practice
1979;
The Stranglers ~ Live (X Cert)
The Buzzcocks ~ A Different Kind of Tension
J-J Burnel ~ Euroman Cometh
1981;
The Human League ~ Dare
Pete Shelley ~ Homosapien
The Raybeats ~ Guitar Beat
Altered Images ~ Happy Birthday
The dB's ~ Stands for Decibels
1982;
The Human League ~ Love and Dancing
Altered Images ~ Pinky Blue
1983;
The Human League ~ Fascination!
Pete Shelley ~ XL1
1984;
The Human League ~ Hysteria
The Go-Go's ~ Talk show


GENERATION X ~ KISS ME DEADLY;