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ОглавлениеKim Salmon. Art School dropout, seminal punk rocker, and living legend. Born into the isolation of the semi-industrial wastelands of 1950s outer suburban Perth, Kim Salmon clawed his way out of the swamp and onto the world stage in his bands the Scientists, the Surrealists, and the Beasts of Bourbon.
Conjuring the nascent snarls of antipodean punk rock in the late 70s, Salmon formed the Cheap Nasties, simultaneously making seminal punk music in far flung Perth as the Saints were in Brisbane, Radio Birdman in Sydney and Nick Cave with the Boys Next Door in Melbourne.
As the 80s dawned, Salmon rematerialised with the Scientists and a new sound was born. Dark, primitive, swampy, demented — this was punk, rock ‘n’ roll, psychobilly and blues all at once — but it was something new too. In the early 90s, Seattle based Grunge would sell millions of records worldwide. In Australia, a decade earlier, Grunge was simply the noise of the Scientists.
Internationally acclaimed and pronounced a ‘national treasure’, Kim Salmon has earned his reputation as an authentic artist incapable of choosing the safe road. For over forty years, he has performed on the world’s biggest stages and with the most remote punk bands, marauding the most subversive corners of music and art. Kim Salmon’s journey is a triumph of the persistent search for substance — in everything he does, Salmon is endlessly creative, restlessly intelligent and uncompromisingly original.
Kim Salmon’s artistic legacy is assured and his story begs the telling.