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22nd August 2022

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 34 notes

kontextmaschine:

Also a really perfect little story about the ‘70s is that there was this peripheral music industry dirtbag who’d go out to Sunset Strip rock clubs and be like “hey, there sure are a lot of unsupervised eighth grade rocker girls here you can fuck, that’s great, people’ll love that, but how can I monetize this”

And he made novelty records so he formed a novelty band, and that was the theme, like a professional wrestling tag team, “unsupervised eighth grade rocker girls you can fuck”. Like they were called “The Runaways”, and their big hit “Cherry Bomb” was literally “fuck you mom & dad, time to run off to party and lose my virginity with everyone”

(Also he took them under his supervision and fucked them)

And that was just straight up a thing, kind of a big thing, there had been plenty of (dirtbag-assembled tbf) girl groups in Motown but an all-female rock band had never really taken off until the “unsupervised eighth grade rocker girls you can fuck” band

(taking the context a bit further back, remember that one of the earlier battles of the culture/counterculture wars were, depending on your view, riots or civil rights protests when The Man tried to keep the Sunset Strip nightclubs from being a late-night teenage scene)

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  1. redantsunderneath said: I don’t know the months of the individual recruitments, but I think they were 10th-11th graders. Possibly Currie was 9th but I don’t think so (she was a later addition, probably after Aug 1975, but dunno).
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    @discoursedrome : “the 70s sure did cause the 80s huh”If you haven’t read The Invisible Bridge, go do so. It’s not a...
  6. discoursedrome said: the 70s sure did cause the 80s huh
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    When I was in high school there was a club that high school students were permitted into (and was presumably therefore...
  8. swampgallows said: i always THOUGHT thats what that song was about ffs
  9. tototavros said: @poipoipoi-2016​ I assume it’s the same thing as an all ages club? There was one in my hometown, but closed down after the police paid too much attention to it due to rumored heroin sales (off the top of my head, yay upper middle class suburbia)
  10. youzicha said: and Wikipedia notes that they were particularly popular in Japan…
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