Rebel children everywhere always eat their parents. Which, when you think about it, is what Black Flag did to the Ramones and the rest of punk rock as it revved up in 1977. Elvis and Chuck Berry amped up blues and country basics, then the British Invasion did it to Elvis and Chuck Berry, while the American garage bands acting in reaction to the British Invasion took their sonic reductions and made ’em louder, nastier and distorted as fuck. The rock ‘n’ roll process has always been an intensification of whatever came before it.
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