“... An invaluable document of a long-lost era, The Blank Generation sets the style for the Punk Documentary—raw, sloppily spliced, unsynched footage of bands, with sound recorded by cassette. The effect is total disorientation and CBGBs performances by Talking Heads (’Psycho Killer’), Blondie (’He left Me’), Ramones (’Shock Treatment’, ‘1-2-3-4, Let's Go’) Tuff Darts and many of the other New York bands fill up this frantic, crowd-pleasing film. CBGB, the small Bowery Avenue club that spawned and nurtured American punk and New Wave music in the mid-70s, closed earlier this fall after a three-decade run.....”
Patti Smith
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