Death Or Glory #7: Derwood Andrews & Casey Chaos

[@derin111]

As a 15 year old in 1978, Derwood’s guitar playing in Generation X was what lead me to take up the guitar. I’m 61 now and still play……and I’m still shit!

[@MoBatchelor]

Derwood's an awesome guitarist

[@stewartlud5965]

All my friends were big Generation X fans, I got to see most all the first wave original punks bands live. The interviewer is right, its the first two albums that made their legend not the packaging of billy Idol later. Having said that I met Billy many times over the years and he worked hard and got what he wanted so I was happy for him.. People seem to forget now how small punk was when it started and in the big cities there was maybe a hundred or so into it and we all new each others faces. Very few people were cool enough to choose their own music back then or god forbid stand out. It took guts to do it. We got threatened and into fights every day and it was quite chaotic really. People today have no idea as society is the opposite now but back then being your own individual or being different was not acceptable at all, unlike today where this is now accepted or celebrated. I think it was the punk attitude and DIY ethic that helped this happen but it took decades for the seeds to spread and the nexus is not easily seen. Derwood was amazing on guitar on those records and his style was far ahead of his time. The top bands back then definitely were the Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Generation X and the Damned. Of course hundreds of bands followed weeks months and years later but those are the ones that musically caused the biggest ripples.

[@littlehoss]

I love Derwood, he's awesome, but he's also wrong. I grew up in nowhere Pennsylvania and I was listening to Generation-X and a fan a good 2-3 years before Idol hit the U.S. as a solo artist. I will say this, UK punk music was friggin' HARD to find in the U.S. during that time. Most record shops only carried a very small selection of UK Punk albums. In the entire shop you were lucky to find 20-30 punk albums by various bands. I scoured record shops for YEARS trying to locate rare and exciting punk material. When I attended college in Philadelphia I finally located some record shops that carried a decent selection of UK punk, even then the selection was lacking. The fans were there, we just didn't have access to the music.

[@CurationRecords]

Did Casey skate for Flite skateboards??

[@bellyspecial9152]

How long ago was this? Anyone know if Casey is okay these days?

[@AdamnSonn]

Yeah where's Casey gone!