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Early Days - Being Punk Before
Punk Was Even Invented!
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Well, Cherry Vanilla and I had been performing on the NYC stage
for some time. I started performing in Atlanta in 1966 and then
performed in NYC. in underground plays and anti AmeriKan be ins.
My first performance in a staged production, was in 1969 in
Warhol superstar*s Jackie Curtis*s play called *Femme Fatale*,
named after the Velvet Underground song. The play also stared
Patti Smith. I met Cherry when she came to audition in my
own play that I wrote called, *World, The Birth Of A Nation*
(The Castration of Man) She got the part of a necrophiliac, and
carried around a shoe box containing a dead puppy. She would dry
hump the dead puppy and say* OOhhhh please don*t die little
puppy, please don*t die!* Then when anyone else in the play
would die, she would crawl over to them and dry hump their
dead body, moaning, *Please don*t die little Spot, please don*t
die!!!* She was also a nurse and the play took place in a
hospital. Lots of dead people for her to fuck!!! She played
either Tilly Tons, Bertha Blimp, I think it was Tilly Tons. |
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Anyway, Cherry and I were both in to Rock and Roll, or Rock
music as they say now! Usually the most rough and ready, dingy,
wilder music like the Velvet Underground, MC5 and The Doors. By
the time we were doing Andy Warhol*s *Pork* we were good
friends. We had a super wild time when they brought *Pork* to
London*s Roundhouse. We were the toast of the town, although the
British press ripped us apart! How dare we run around the stage
naked, simulating perverted sex, and talking about different
forms of animal shit and how each one smelled different! And how
dare the women in the play curse and use foul language and
squirt lemon juice out of their pussies!!!!!!! And how
dare the cute guys paint their finger nails, put glitter on
their eyes and pubic hair and wear women*s hi heels and ribbons
tied around their cocks! It was *alternative* theatre at
its worse or BEST!!! |
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AND no wonder David and Angie Bowie, came along almost every
night studying us like a text book!!! David ripped off all
of our ideas! Most of the guys also had SHAVED EYEBROWS and
David immediately took that for his future production of Ziggy
Stardust!!! And this was YEARS before David*s fave play,
*Hedwig!* Oh well, birds of a feather flock together!!! Then of
course David*s manager hired all of us to work for David and
make him appear as freaky as us, cause David was so straight
laced and withdrawn. The Ziggy Stardust *character* was all an
act stolen from Wayne County and the cast of Warhol*s *Pork!!!*
So, anyway, Cherry and I eventually formed our own bands and
started using our own ideas ourselves instead giving them all to
David Fucking Blowie! |
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There was already a flourishing underground music scene going on in NYC
way before Legs MC Neal and John Holmstrom came to NYC and formed *Punk*
magazine. Wayne County had been performing for years before all of this
began to take place. Punk magazine just came upon an already existing
scene and tagged it *Punk!!!* And it stuck much to EVERYONE'S HORROR!
The Ramones, Blondie, etc, everyone hated being called Punks. But to no
avail the term started making the news and we were stuck with it! Dee
Dee Ramone once complained, *We are not a Punk band we are a Rock and
Roll band.* The term Rock and Roll in AmeriKa had a different meaning
than what the English used for it.
Wayne with the Dolls |
In England it was a term for old 50*s bands or singers, like Jerry Lee
Lewis, Chuck Berry or early Elvis. So the Ramones were actually
playing as early as 1974. Wayne County had been playing in 1972 with his
band Queen Elizabeth. Not named after the Queen of England but after a
queen in Atlanta who was modelling women*s clothes at one of Atlanta*s
biggest department stores. One day Queen Elizabeth was changing her
clothes and the manager walked in on her and screamed, cause Queen
Elizabeth had a great big cock!!! So I just had to name my band after
her!!! So what I am basically saying is that NYC had this big music
scene going forever and Punk magazine came along and called it
PUNK!!! And my band (Wayne*s!) was doing the same outrageous things,
singing the same outrageous songs and wearing the same outrageous
clothes in 1972 as I was in 1977 and on! |
So to the ASSHOLES that say Wayne County/Jayne County was not Punk, I
say+++ FUCK YOU IGNORANT HOMO AND TRANS PHOBE SCUMBAGS!!! And idiot arty farty bands like
Television were NEVER Punks and never will be!!!. Except to a few un
informed, uptight, journalists who don*t know their shitty anal canals
from their canary turd brains!!! (I hope you are not going to censor
this)
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