From Ramones to Iggy Pop, photographer Michael Grecco met them all. An exhibition of his work recreates the movement’s glory days
Michael Grecco had low expectations the night he walked into a Boston dive bar known as The Rat. A local punk band was on stage called La Peste – appropriately enough – but Grecco was more into jazz. It was 1978.
He’d turned up on a whim, he recalls, figuring a band named after an Albert Camus novel might possibly be interesting. Then the guitar and drums kicked in, and the lead singer launched into a deafening number called Better Off Dead.