Gop Ist Minee

"We were scared. We were scared that all we held dear, all we had fought for, everything we'd established would be washed away by the indifference of a generation. To put it straight, rock was dead. There was nothing on the horizon but the feeble embers of anguish and despair. Where were the trailblazers, where were the firebrands? Then just as we had our revolvers cocked and pointed to our temples, here come the young men. From nowhere, not only to reignite our hopes and dreams, but reinvent our whole pattern of existence. As if the past 40 years had been the dress rehearsal, and here came the main event. A band, who, in their live form, have normal men crying and running for the exit as if being chased by the bulls of Pamploma. A band that makes the MC5 look like a Catholic girls school field hockey team. A band that would have had the Stooges saying, "Geez, what the fuck is wrong with these guys?" Dissecting the obvious norms of rock and roll and doing things with guitars Mac