World inferno friendship society paul robeson biography
World inferno friendship society paul robeson biography
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RIP Jack Terricloth () of the World/Inferno Friendship Society
On May 13, Peter Ventantonio, better known as Jack Terricloth, front man of the World/Inferno Friendship Society, passed away at the age of His sister told the New York Times that the cause of death was “hypertensive cardiovascular disease.” Few others in the history of the genre so seamlessly and sincerely combined the poetry, aesthetics, innovation and politics beating in the amphetamine-fueled heart of punk rock.
The World/Inferno Friendship Society was notorious throughout the s, especially among suburban misfits like me, for their drunken, chaotic and other-worldly spectacles.
Jack resembled Cabaret’s Master of Ceremonies, welcoming the crowd into a vital urban terrain where youth was permitted to be fast and dangerous. Songs decrying capitalism and romanticizing drugs, booze, petty crime, running from cops and intense short-lived romances are common in punk.
What set World/Inferno apart wa