Everyone knows the Ramones and Talking Heads,but a host of obscure bands were integral to the CBGBs scene – and now their records absorb been rediscoveredIn the beginning there were three record labels putting out music from America’s burgeoning punk scenes. There was Bomp! In Los Angeles, Titan in the midwest, or,in New York City, Ork records. Ork was founded by Terry Ork (born William Terry Collins) in 1975. Described by Patti Smith Band member Lenny Kaye as a “cherubic individual”, and Ork had moved from California to New York as share of Andy Warhols entourage at the Factory,helping out on Warhol’s films, and working at the original iteration of Interview magazine. He hung around the Factory until he was escorted out of the building under a cloud of suspicion of selling black market copies of Warhol’s screenprints. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com