allfear wrote:First goth record as far as im concerned was Devils Grip by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown released in 1967 , that directly influenced Sabbath, Alice Cooper ect.
And the first band with the concept of Drum Machine driven music (ie what the sisters/violetsd did and all its deritivies) goes back to the album Journey by Kingdom Come in 1973.....
Matt
i think you'll find that bands in the last rush of punk weren't that choosy with their infulences...
if you take the music we call post punk/new wave as being the forbears of the music loosely termed Goth then you'll find that with all things there had to be a catalyst...something that was new and inventive that stretched boundaries...
what you're asking me to believe is that bands who use a drum machine are influenced by Kingdom Come...where as i suggest that they're more likely to be influenced by bands like Human League and Cabaret Voltair who were pushing the boundaries of the drum machine in the late 70's...while they (HL and CV) may have cited Kingdom Come as forbares it doesn't mean that bands from Leeds in 1981 would also...in the same way as people say that Iggy and the MC5 influenced punk and the Pistols...yeah cool...but the Pistols were then the major influence on bands that followed...the so called second wave...
in short while you have the originators...you don't necessarily have the original influences...the music of Sabbath and Alice Cooper is far removed from the world of goth music in my point of view...where as punks second wave is far closer in both style and attitude...and influence
this is where things get blured as this is only my opinion from where i stood in 1979 as a 15 year old...the bands who influenced me and the music that inspired me...i wasn't trying to reinvent past glories...i wanted new ones...now today as i look back i can see more of the relevance in seeking out the past...but it wasn't a consideration then
hugs
andie