Cranked Up Really High: Genre Theory and Punk Rock

First edition. Paperback original. Photo-illustrated soft covers. Front cover photo shows the author watching Slaughter and the Dogs at the Marquee club in 1978; on the back cover photo he is on stage playing guitar with Le Pissoir in 1988. *** Cranked Up Really High is part diatribe against other books written about Punk Rock and part rescue mission, championing “the super-dumb sleazebag thud of the Damned” and other bands often ignored by “arty-farty trendies who want to make the music intellectually respectable”.