Correction: #7 is called "Drug Related Incident" I know, I sang it and co-wrote it...Hello, Thanks to everybody for the kind words, a lot of blood and guts went into this album, thanks again guys, Frantic
Hell ya! I'm now going to give you and your boys the honor of being the first punk band. I think a lot of other "famous" bands may have seen you and lifted everything that you were doing. Sad to say. like David Bowie said "never the originator , always the imitator ". and Your band is rockin as fuck!!
I remember them crawling around on the stage floor banging the mic on the floor-probably freaked a bunch of people out at Richardson's. But they were loved none the less.
Good original sound...I like it and it has a underground quality...I grew up in the punk scene late 70s early 80s...How is it I never heard these guys...I'm enlightened...thank u u-tube.
I remember this band - The Punks from when i was 16. I really loved it back then & still do. Here in Australia we used to have some good bands as well. Garage bands paved the way through that crappy Disco scene then to every genre of music. Heavy Metal/ Thrash. History will repeat itself, now & in the future. From an Original Punk.
Wow this is PUNK ROCK before PUNK and I love it.... I've been a PUNK ROCKER SINCE 1978 -- 9 and I'm gutted to say that I have never heard anything about this band...are they from the USA 🇺🇸 or the UK🇬🇧 anyways I have heard this UPLOAD and I'm hooked..!!! And I want more ...!!!! 🍺😊👍
We are from Detroit and formed right after the brake-up of The Stooges, and MC5 (our house bands). Wrote and recorded our first song in 1973 as 'The Punks'.
Thanks Ian Jackson for bringing this band back in the foreground, I see by the reaction that many of us hard core punk rockers are kind of sad that we never heard about them before, awesome group and deserved better! Great album! Sad that Alan's brother Craig the original drummer of The Punks died in 2011.
Then, what you saying is, the Punks rode a time machine into the future and while they were there they thought let's steal a CJ riff, no one will notice, cos were from the past. Interesting.
How have I never heard of this band before? Great stuff, I have never heard anything that even rivals The Stooges but these guys are like the first 3 Stooges albums combined. And from Waterford. I'm from Fenton. Weird.
If you need an old punk from Flint at anytime, I'm your man. I used to roadie/tour and have a few albums under my belt. You guys are most def in my wheelhouse. Can't wait!
Alan Webber, one of the guitarists/singer is my DAD! :D Craig Webber was a great drummer and awesome uncle, died a number of years ago. Go Punks! Go Dad! 🤘 😎❤️
# 2 sounds like a riff on Courageous Cat, that dolls did also, and I can attest that channel 7 played Courageous Cat early week day mornings in early 70's, I watched it then. Channel 7 is a Detroit area ABC station, that also played cool WWWW commercials, before Howard Stern worked there.
Was this the band that was promoted by Jack Tann and had some sort of connection to Don "Was" Fagenson? Promoted along with the Pigs and a third band whose name I'll leave out ?
Hi! I’m one of the directors of the documentary, our “producer” is currently suing my partner and I and trying to commandeer the project. You can read about it here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-bennett-and-lisa-with-legal-fees? We are trying to fight him and get our movie back. We have the support of the entire Punks band behind us. There’s more great unreleased material too!
Hi I’m one of the directors of the film about these guys. We are currently being sued by our “producer” for more than $200,000. We are fighting him to get our movie back. We started this project without him and most of the footage was shot before he even cake along. You can read about our tale of woe here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-bennett-and-lisa-with-legal-fees? We have the complete support of the entire Punks band. They are awesome dudes, they’re still playing, they still kick ass and they’re still LOUD as FUCK We love them and we just want our movie to come out so these guys can get their dues. They deserve it. They were almost lost to history, but now their music is available again and people have a chance to hear one of the heaviest bands on earth. -Lisa Pereira Co-director of My Time’s Coming: The Punks You can email me at femaletreble@gmail.com
1973? Let’s see... what was popular that year? The radio was filled with soft rock garbage like “Killing Me Softly” and “Tie a Yellow Ribbon”. The heaviest it got (on the radio) was “We’re an American Band” by another Michigan band - Grand Funk Railroad. This must have blown a few eardrums at the time.
At first, this sounded like a Stooges ripoff, but when those dirty guitars kick in at 1:27 and don’t let up for the duration of the song, you know you’re in for something different.
The moment you hear legit Discharge hooks in the middle of the first track, I mean... What the fuck man, is this a hoax? This record is fucking brain shattering
That's because this is an attempt to retcon some fake 70's group as some kind of "original punk" outfit. Joke's on them because anybody with google can see there are is zero evidence they existed in the 70's and even if they did, Suicide was using the term "punk" as early as 1970 in NYC.
@@quietobsolescence7773 I gotta say I appreciate the research but going to every single comment to prove a point is really over the top. If you want to listen to "new and better bands" then search them out. If you want to listen to the punks and think it's all a big scam somehow then...go ahead.
Rocks Funeral would have fit in with the other LA Death Rock songs of the early 80's. Vocals sound like a mix of Rozz and maybe even HR? Did Ministry every admit they stole from Drop Dead? They had to have right? I doubt Greg Ginn or Discharge guys listen to this band but who knows. Lets get Rollins to investigate. I wish there was 100 more Stooges clones/inspired by pre 76.
They sound much like the Stooges and came after the Stooges were about broken up. Some good stuff here. Funny how nobody talks about these guys. Quick One might be considered hardcore punk much like Stooges "I Got a Right."
Hey here is the post I just posted on a Facebook page called "Punk Stories, History, Flyers and music"" .. all you OG punkers out there may want to friend that page, it's my fav page on the internet.. here is what I put,... Well, this settles it. This is the original band. All the others ripped them off. I hear some DK, some Flag, some Ramones in all this, or this in them. The fucking rip off Rolling shit stone always gives the credit the bands making the big music mafia money , when there are endless bands doing it before them (and I love the Ramones). It's obvious these Kats played to some younger dudes, who took it and ran , including stealing the term "punk". This is my new fav band, all the rest can bow down. I'm only on track two, and it's my fav band. And too drunk to fuck sure sounds ALOT like track 2...
@@InFamousProductions Thanks, it's being done by a Toronto Film Co. It's hung up in Canadian Court, a lawsuit with one producer. Fucked Up because the Trailer is Killer, the film is complete, but can't move yet. Been waiting a couple of years, fuck it!
@@Megahitbank Hi Megahit it's the guy who co=wrote ALL these songs Frantic, quick history lesson we 'The Punks' formed in summer of 73 (as we have always said) after the breakup of The Stooges. MC5, Alice Cooper (left town) Bob Seger (left town) the list goes on and on. "What the fuck should we do, we Grew Up on these bands, sooooooo we quit our jobs went into the Basement for a year and wrote,recorded(scratch tracks) and learned how to form a secret brotherhood. I have had visions and dreams (real ones) over this band. My Brother, skepticism is healthy, utter-skepticism (the sky is blue. No it's not it's brown) comes from lack of knowledge. As Iggy himself moaned " Well now ya know, well now..... ya know!
@@davesexgang6186 I don't know if this is why the band chose this name, but I was a teenager back in the late 1960s, early 1970s, "punk" was an insult adults would use for teenager delinquents or even just one's who would not conform to that adult's rules, an "insolent" or "disobedient" teen kid was "punk". This is also why Lenny Kaye (in 1972 when he produced the first Nuggets anthology) decided to use the term "punk rock" for a certain sort of raw-edged rock from the 1960s that is now considered "proto-punk".
Check out the song "Drop Dead". I believe it's at 16:48. I think this band is a bridge between protopunk and punk itself. Maybe they were post-proto? 😂
Alan Webber, a MEMBER, of the Punks, is my dad lol he’s been a guitar player and singer
how is he?
Handam he’s doing well! Still riding his motorcycle too haha thank you for asking :)
Anna, I am a fan and I write for an online magazine. I'd love to connect and conduct a brief interview with your Dad via email if possible
Tell your dad that we are still enjoying his music.
Awesome! How can I get a copy of this in Digital?
Correction: #7 is called "Drug Related Incident" I know, I sang it and co-wrote it...Hello, Thanks to everybody for the kind words, a lot of blood and guts went into this album, thanks again guys, Frantic
Hell ya! I'm now going to give you and your boys the honor of being the first punk band. I think a lot of other "famous" bands may have seen you and lifted everything that you were doing. Sad to say. like David Bowie said "never the originator , always the imitator ". and Your band is rockin as fuck!!
You Bloody Legend mate!!!! Love 💘 from Liverpool England 😎
What an honor! Thanks for the comment. What are you doing now?
Love your music. Any chance of ever making some T shirts? Would love to help!
@@centerrightpunk We have sold, T-shirts throughout the years, just look at the name on the Album and make them look like that. I don't mind. Frantic
Sounds like a cross between the stooges and the saints
I remember them crawling around on the stage floor banging the mic on the floor-probably freaked a bunch of people out at Richardson's. But they were loved none the less.
This band is KILLER!
Way ahead of their time!
Good original sound...I like it and it has a underground quality...I grew up in the punk scene late 70s early 80s...How is it I never heard these guys...I'm enlightened...thank u u-tube.
I discovered it and uploaded some years ago because I felt it necessary to share. You're welcome!
I remember this band - The Punks from when i was 16. I really loved it back then & still do. Here in Australia we used to have some good bands as well. Garage bands paved the way through that crappy Disco scene then to every genre of music. Heavy Metal/ Thrash. History will repeat itself, now & in the future. From an Original Punk.
So lucky to have seen these guys at an out of the way venue that was they only place we had access to in 1973-4
Richardson's Pavilion in WIsconsin
I wonder if Lovelock from The Celibate Rifles was a big fan?,fantastic TY.
Wow this is PUNK ROCK before PUNK and I love it.... I've been a PUNK ROCKER SINCE 1978 -- 9 and I'm gutted to say that I have never heard anything about this band...are they from the USA 🇺🇸 or the UK🇬🇧 anyways I have heard this UPLOAD and I'm hooked..!!! And I want more ...!!!! 🍺😊👍
We are from Detroit and formed right after the brake-up of The Stooges, and MC5 (our house bands). Wrote and recorded our first song in 1973 as 'The Punks'.
Thanks Ian Jackson for bringing this band back in the foreground, I see by the reaction that many of us hard core punk rockers are kind of sad that we never heard about them before, awesome group and deserved better! Great album! Sad that Alan's brother Craig the original drummer of The Punks died in 2011.
Thanks bro. Frantic (Singer of The Punks). Kind words and yes, Thanks to Ian.
Just fucking wow, this is gold, play it everywhere you go people, really good.
The riff at 1:26 honestly sounds like it was ripped straight from a Circle Jerks record. Crazy that these guys are so unheard of
Then, what you saying is, the Punks rode a time machine into the future and while they were there they thought let's steal a CJ riff, no one will notice, cos were from the past. Interesting.
@@davesexgang6186 Nah kid I was saying they were ahead of their time chill
Sure, DB, got it.
Zombie definitely the riff in I Just Want Some Skank!!
@@davesexgang6186 How did you find us out? Frantic
this is fantastic! way ahead of its time
Послушай Химеру из русского Петербурга, сравни
@@ЮрийКонстантинов-ь9д А толку сравнивать, разница в 20 лет.
this fucking killzzz everything , never heard of them before !!!
Aws some sound ,can't get enough of the stuff , this is more like heavy psych surf punk rock , love it
First new (to me) interesting music I have heard in a long time.
Excelente.
desde Medellín. Colombia..
Thank you, Punks & Ian Jackson! 👋
Excellent!!!
Thanks for uploading this, I remember hearing these tracks in the early 2000's when that Rave Up Record came out.
Sounds cool !!! Thanks for sharing !!
hey, lovely vid
You were on this album. Wow.
Best Rock & Roll of ‘74
💓Top shelf!
Cool sounding band.
No mercy is untrue ,a master piece
How have I never heard of this band before? Great stuff, I have never heard anything that even rivals The Stooges but these guys are like the first 3 Stooges albums combined. And from Waterford. I'm from Fenton. Weird.
Hello Kenneth guess what...we still live, Frantic (you'll hear more in 2018)
If you need an old punk from Flint at anytime, I'm your man. I used to roadie/tour and have a few albums under my belt. You guys are most def in my wheelhouse.
Can't wait!
Love them.... Should have been as big and influential as the stooges
I'm from Ann Arbor and I've never heard of these dudes. I'm actually blown away . Can only find their records in Europe...
Alan Webber, one of the guitarists/singer is my DAD! :D Craig Webber was a great drummer and awesome uncle, died a number of years ago.
Go Punks! Go Dad! 🤘 😎❤️
Way before your time boys.
I like it. From one Punk to another.
EXCELLENT
# 2 sounds like a riff on Courageous Cat, that dolls did also, and I can attest that channel 7 played Courageous Cat early week day mornings in early 70's, I watched it then. Channel 7 is a Detroit area ABC station, that also played cool WWWW commercials, before Howard Stern worked there.
Reelin!! Great rocknroll band!!
Ke carajo!!! punk hc rock n roll, estos tíos si eran la cagada, saludos de Lima Perú.
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally, in good quality!
This album is 🔥!
The 'lost' Stooges recordings - Pretty Damn Fkin Good !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great band...
'My Times Comm'n riffage alone could easily be the blueprint for a Black Flag song
Hermoso disco. ❤
Sweet!
SO FRANTIC / URGENT /AND DAMN VISCERAL ...
Was this the band that was promoted by Jack Tann and had some sort of connection to Don "Was" Fagenson? Promoted along with the Pigs and a third band whose name I'll leave out ?
Sounds so much like Stooges.
WOW!
Lite långsamma. Mer tjack!
super
Track 4 reminds me bomber riff...
Love it.
It's like angry Samoans before they were a thing and the stooges in and big Lil rompin ass hug.
Does anyone know if the movie ever come out?
What ever happened to the documentary The Story of The Punks. This needs some exposure.
You know that trailer has floated around for awhile but I don't know of anything besides that.
Hi! I’m one of the directors of the documentary, our “producer” is currently suing my partner and I and trying to commandeer the project.
You can read about it here:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bennett-and-lisa-with-legal-fees?
We are trying to fight him and get our movie back. We have the support of the entire Punks band behind us.
There’s more great unreleased material too!
Hi I’m one of the directors of the film about these guys. We are currently being sued by our “producer” for more than $200,000. We are fighting him to get our movie back. We started this project without him and most of the footage was shot before he even cake along. You can read about our tale of woe here:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bennett-and-lisa-with-legal-fees?
We have the complete support of the entire Punks band. They are awesome dudes, they’re still playing, they still kick ass and they’re still LOUD as FUCK
We love them and we just want our movie to come out so these guys can get their dues. They deserve it. They were almost lost to history, but now their music is available again and people have a chance to hear one of the heaviest bands on earth.
-Lisa Pereira
Co-director of My Time’s Coming: The Punks
You can email me at
femaletreble@gmail.com
@@busterkatkrap2006 Good luck! Really solid music.
CHAINS OF MADNESS!
1973? Let’s see... what was popular that year? The radio was filled with soft rock garbage like “Killing Me Softly” and “Tie a Yellow Ribbon”. The heaviest it got (on the radio) was “We’re an American Band” by another Michigan band - Grand Funk Railroad. This must have blown a few eardrums at the time.
I've got news for you.. “Killing Me Softly” is not garbage.
@@m00nracer It is garbage.
they recorded 2 stooges songs later
At first, this sounded like a Stooges ripoff, but when those dirty guitars kick in at 1:27 and don’t let up for the duration of the song, you know you’re in for something different.
00:45 - 00:55 is addictive
The moment you hear legit Discharge hooks in the middle of the first track, I mean... What the fuck man, is this a hoax? This record is fucking brain shattering
Thanks, Ivan, Not a Hoax, Frantic {lead singer}.
I never heard of this band. I read the description it said as early as "73". I must be a lame.
Where I can buy it bro! I Can`t find nothing but a couple mentions on the web! The link to the website it`s random! :(
I would try discogs!
That's because this is an attempt to retcon some fake 70's group as some kind of "original punk" outfit. Joke's on them because anybody with google can see there are is zero evidence they existed in the 70's and even if they did, Suicide was using the term "punk" as early as 1970 in NYC.
@@quietobsolescence7773 I gotta say I appreciate the research but going to every single comment to prove a point is really over the top. If you want to listen to "new and better bands" then search them out. If you want to listen to the punks and think it's all a big scam somehow then...go ahead.
@@ianjackson7916 i like bands that actually existed.
@@quietobsolescence7773 Darfuq is wrong with you? You callin them fake? Who are money pushing, turd?
😮
That shit is sick (on speed)
Rocks Funeral would have fit in with the other LA Death Rock songs of the early 80's. Vocals sound like a mix of Rozz and maybe even HR?
Did Ministry every admit they stole from Drop Dead? They had to have right?
I doubt Greg Ginn or Discharge guys listen to this band but who knows. Lets get Rollins to investigate.
I wish there was 100 more Stooges clones/inspired by pre 76.
Sounds more Discharge than MC5,I fucking love it.
Sounds nothing like Discharge...
They sound much like the Stooges and came after the Stooges were about broken up. Some good stuff here. Funny how nobody talks about these guys. Quick One might be considered hardcore punk much like Stooges "I Got a Right."
Hey here is the post I just posted on a Facebook page called "Punk Stories, History, Flyers and music"" .. all you OG punkers out there may want to friend that page, it's my fav page on the internet.. here is what I put,... Well, this settles it. This is the original band. All the others ripped them off. I hear some DK, some Flag, some Ramones in all this, or this in them. The fucking rip off Rolling shit stone always gives the credit the bands making the big music mafia money , when there are endless bands doing it before them (and I love the Ramones). It's obvious these Kats played to some younger dudes, who took it and ran , including stealing the term "punk". This is my new fav band, all the rest can bow down. I'm only on track two, and it's my fav band. And too drunk to fuck sure sounds ALOT like track 2...
Dude, I'm honored you get it. Stay Cool, Yours, Frantic {singer of The Punks}. Yeah, I'm still alive.
@@franticproductions Fuck Ya bro. I'm thinking a documentary is needed. I make vids for a living.. maybe we should talk about it.
@@InFamousProductions Thanks, it's being done by a Toronto Film Co. It's hung up in Canadian Court, a lawsuit with one producer. Fucked Up because the Trailer is Killer, the film is complete, but can't move yet. Been waiting a couple of years, fuck it!
@@franticproductions Fuck! nothing kills art worse than a Canadian kangaroo court .
well, I'm dying to see it.
They sound like Stoggies, Iggy Pop
En 1973 c'était du hippie rock à cheveux lond ???
Love the sound, but I think this was recorded recently - Nice try!
What makes you say that?
@@ianjackson7916 They are posed just like the first Stooges album - I may be wrong!
@@Megahitbank they were featured in Creem magazine by Lester Bangs in the early 70s, the Wikipedia page for the band is in the video description.
@@ianjackson7916 I saw the Wikipedia page, but I don't see a link to the article (I don't see any references older than 2015)
@@Megahitbank Hi Megahit it's the guy who co=wrote ALL these songs Frantic, quick history lesson we 'The Punks' formed in summer of 73 (as we have always said) after the breakup of The Stooges. MC5, Alice Cooper (left town) Bob Seger (left town) the list goes on and on. "What the fuck should we do, we Grew Up on these bands, sooooooo we quit our jobs went into the Basement for a year and wrote,recorded(scratch tracks) and learned how to form a secret brotherhood. I have had visions and dreams (real ones) over this band. My Brother, skepticism is healthy, utter-skepticism (the sky is blue. No it's not it's brown) comes from lack of knowledge. As Iggy himself moaned " Well now ya know, well now..... ya know!
Very inspired by The Stooges but better
Roots of 77
Pretty sure this ain’t real. Neither is Michigan. Not a state. Punk didn’t start in the “Midwest”*.
*Not real either. Mid west? Commit to a side.
It’s real lol..My dad, Alan Webber, is one of the MEMBERS. Hes been a guitar player and singer
That's pretty cool, Anna,! I have never heard of them, it's a pity they never broke big. Know how they got the name?
I was about to say if another fucking person is here to say this is a fake band from a fake decade playing fake music I'm gonna lose my shit.
@@davesexgang6186 I’ll have to find out I can’t recall!
@@davesexgang6186 I don't know if this is why the band chose this name, but I was a teenager back in the late 1960s, early 1970s, "punk" was an insult adults would use for teenager delinquents or even just one's who would not conform to that adult's rules, an "insolent" or "disobedient" teen kid was "punk". This is also why Lenny Kaye (in 1972 when he produced the first Nuggets anthology) decided to use the term "punk rock" for a certain sort of raw-edged rock from the 1960s that is now considered "proto-punk".
Ironically enough they werent a punk band
PUNK defines itself!
Yes they were?
Check out the song "Drop Dead". I believe it's at 16:48. I think this band is a bridge between protopunk and punk itself. Maybe they were post-proto? 😂
They sound like negative aproach or the meatmen
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
Not really.