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This will show my age, but I have to admit – last night I went to see the early ’80’s funk/punk band Gang Of Four at the historic Filmore in San Francisco. The show last night was enjoyable, but lacked the thrashing violence of the night I last saw them – in a ill-fitting suburban hotel meeting room outside Wilmington Delaware in 1982. If you happend to be there, it was a brilliant moment – raw, ripping guitar from Andy Gill, set against a thumping rythym and dismal & bitter Leeds-soaked lyrics. I tried pogo-ing last night, but just couldn’t get the crowd into bashing around like the old days. And jumping wildly for a single song about did my 42 year old knees in for the evening. Any other Gang of Four fans out there, perhaps 40-something Brit planners? One thing I noticed at the show – back in the ’80s we had all shaved our heads, or had buzz cuts – partly for fashion, partly to prevent stupid punks from grabbing one’s hair in the mele. Last night though, most of the audience had the same kind of hair style – but now balding, not bald. We tried to ignore the difference…

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