In message , Peter Ward 
 writes

>the
>whole ethos of punk, as I understand it, is anathema to me.  The Sex
>Pistols, in particular, were fucking awful, which put me off the whole
>business from the start.  Also, there's so much other stuff to listen
>to which is so much better, I really can't find the time to pay much
>attention to punk.
>
>Maybe the excesses of a small part of the prog and glam rock genres
>needed curtailing in some way.  Punk was not that way.
>

Tsk


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