How in hell did I forget the Ramones? Widely cited as the first punk band, nothing could be further from the truth. Formed in 1974.
Now there's MC5 (formed in 1964) and the Stooges (formed in 1967). Get that up ya Ramones, the band who sounds the same every song.
And you wonder why Iggy Pop is the Godfather of Punk.
Even before the 5, there were The Sonics, The Seeds, and Los Saicos from Peru.
All of them real proto types for the 70's punk theme. Really check them out, they're all over Youtube.
I did see The Ramones a few times, I wasn't a big fan but my mates were. They were pretty good fun live. I still didnt buy anything though.
I saw Iggy a couple of times at the Big Day Out. You could tell he’s had a fun life despite singing about no fun. Still got a Stooges t-shirt.
Saw the Igg-man in the 80's as well as those Stooges shows.
I've still got an original Raw f**king Power t-shirt in good condition. Just checked it out, its worth $400.
As far as the worst band in history goes, well thats all just subjective to ones own taste.
I've played i na lot of bands, still do, in one band we all changed instruments for the sake of nothing and actually promoted ourselves as "The Worst Band in the World". We played a gig at Newtown RSL, the fella promoting the show was a mate of ours and actually put that moniker on the poster about us, plus that we were from the US.......
So we started off in our terrible yank accents then half way through the gig just went f**k it and started talking normal. Mates of ours watched as this couple in front of them exclaimed loudly "they arent from America!" amd stormed out. Chalk one up for the little guy with some cheap shitty promo.
So we were the worst band in history. End of story. The Chinaskis.