Scene: London Pub Rock and Post-Pub New Wave, 1970s
By Chuck Eddy, eMusic Contributor
For three decades plus now, '70s London pub rock has as often as not been vaguely defined — especially by Americans, who were oblivious to it at the time — as a "precursor of punk," ostensibly because it rejected the high-fallutin' prog bombast popular in Me Decade arenas. Yet when the scene first hatched in the early '70s, the British bands involved were way less inspired by, say, the Stooges' destructive din than by mellow-minded… more »