LOCK DOWN THEATER NIGHT 14

Well, shit, when Marc Bolan stuff appears a bunch of times in the matter of a couple weeks it's time for a link dump. Here's all that I ran across, and it's plenty, particularly for any of you that don't know T Rex or Mark Bolan. The video below is a short documentary that aired in 1997 on the twentieth anniversary of his death. That gets me out of doing a thumbnail bio. There's a handful of songs down there and if there's one thing to take away from them, it's the guitar tone. Man, it's a light crunch, like Mick Ronson Lite. That might account for half of the T Rex fans, the other fans likely thought of him as a heartthrob. Those would be the female fans, for the most part anyways. But one thing I kind of like about Bolan was that he was one of the few that bridged the gap between glam and punk rock. If you've read any old punk bios, be it the Clash, Sex Pistols or other, you'll know that a good percentage of them cite T Rex as a pre-punk favorite. Bolan had a short lived TV show in the months before his death (links below). Some of the bands that appeared on the show were borderline punk bands. Generation X (Billy Idol's band before going solo), the Jam, the Boomtown Rats, and Eddie and the Hot Rods, along with a bunch of other bands that were big in England at the time but I've never heard of. Oh, and Bowie was on the last show, the famous guitar face incident.

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Listen:
T Rex - Solid Gold Easy Action mp3 at Get The Curse (?)
Marc Bolan - Children of the Revolution mp3 at Passion at the Weiss
T Rex - Bang A Gong mp3 at Tumblr
T Rex - Lean Woman Blues mp3 at Tumblr
T Rex - Girl mp3 at Tumblr
T Rex - Rip Off mp3 at Tumblr
T Rex - 20th Century Boy mp3 at Tumblr
Video:
Marc Show, Nos 1-6 at YouTube
Marc Show, No 1 at YouTube with the Jam and Showaddywaddy
Marc Show, No 3 at YouTube with the Boomtown Rats, Hawkwind
Marc Show, No 4 at YouTube with the Steve Gibbons Band, Roger Taylor (Queen)
Marc Show, No 6 at YouTube with Generation X, Eddie and the Hot Rods, David Bowie