Bit of a merchant banker actually, didn't come as a great surprise really!
Heard Steve Ignorant was more grounded, but
I never really liked Crass. I saw the UK Subs in '81, and most recently, in Holland, 20 years ago. I think Matt saw them quite recently (I think he might even be still in a band)!
I preferred the older Punk bands though,
1977 was a good year to be 16 
Great pic Will
Thanks for sharing, Jack. I can see it. I think one of the most frequent questions I've asked myself about Crass's contribution to punk is "Is one supposed to
like it?" I've often considered whether or not their music may have been intended, contrived or accidentally, to have the opposite effect of the music of the preceding psychedelic rock era. Where psychedelia could lull the listener into a detached state of cosmic awareness, Crass certainly has a way of snapping the listener back to a wide-eyed, attentive focus on the gritty underbelly of political maneuvering, religious indoctrination, and how it intersects with and impacts the lives of the working class. While the hippies may have been content to protest peacefully, I think Crass saw their experience as a failed experiment and instead came to view radical action as a more effective path to effect social change. I've often come away from the question thinking that Crass's music might have been designed to "angry up the blood" rather than calm it. Some might even call it "jarring!" My parents being some of the foremost proponents of this idea!
In my buddy John's garage nigh on 30 years ago, I and a few fellows would host long Crass (and other UK punk) listening sessions, following which we'd try our hands at playing (and shouting
) their tunes. Once, a friend of ours and an honest-to-God musician came over - after about 20 minutes of listening he inquired "How do they get it to sound so bad??!!" He was legitimately impressed. When the rest of us had stopped cackling - knowing we had recreated their authentic sound many times with nothing more than a lack of skill, out-of-tune instruments, and cheap amplification equipment pushed to its absolute limit - we informed our musician friend that he was simply overthinking it and that Crass was more about the energy and message than musical nuance. We told him to go back to playing Zeppelin covers with his fancy Gibson Les Paul guitar and top-of-the-line, tube-driven Marshall stack and sent him on his way!!
He went on to win a local "Jimi Hendrix Sound-Alike" contest which we all found uproariously comic as well.
We were idiots, but good on him - I believe he is now residing in Diehl, his mother's hometown, helping to take care of his aging and infirmed father.
As for 1977, I can only imagine - I wouldn't be born until October of the following year! Please share any memories through which I might live vicariously!!
"Banned from the Roxy, okay. Never liked much playing there, anyway!" - Gotta love the defiance!! (as least, it quite appealed to me as a youth!)
I think such a long-winded memoir demands a lamb photo, no? We'll keep to a punk theme for now!
And another!
It always amazes me nobody has done a Ritchie, "It's all about the attitude!" gif/meme
Thanks, Jack.
That purty thing probably struts around like a model, too.
Tilly is hopelessly spoiled by the limelight, Bob. She does whatever she wants, whenever she wants, and I just kinda follow around with a camera hoping to capture a sliver of the magic!
Enjoy your Sunday Guardians
How is the action on yours?
out this morning. Pretty chilly atm around here at the moment. Suppose to hit 60°later this afternoon. Looks like lolligaggin is in order 
