i remember when Dr. Demento , on Sundays at 10:00pm, was the only place to hear Punk , or stranger stuff like The Flying Lizards.....But , it was sporadic at best.
I did'nt actually hear The Pistols' LP until my Brother bought it in 1980.
It was still rare that I'd meet anybody who went to The Pistols/Nervebreakers show at The Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas in Jan. 1978 , though , later , I'd meet several people who were there. They either hated it , but had a good time, anyway , or it turned their heads around , got them starting bands , or giving their already - formed bands an identity. Somehow , previous gigs by The Ramones and Dr. Feelgood did'nt seem to succeed at doing this.
Glenn Peart said:
I was listening to the Dr. Demento show on KMET, Los Angeles back in 1977. He was doing a 'Tribute to England' show playing comedy songs, but the last song he played was the Sex Pistols doing 'God Save the Queen'. I went out immediately and bought the import album on Virgin, since it had not been released in the U.S. on Warner Bros. yet. Right after that, I found the 'Rodney on the Roq' radio show on KROQ and starting listening every Sunday night at 9:00. I was lucky to have lived in LA at the time, since the scene there was an important one in the history of punk rock.
