And for poets who could also sing, such as John Doe, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, and Tom Verlaine, punk offered a much needed intellectual refuge from the excesses of '70s pop music.Where New York's '70s punk scene was full of bands with pop-art names that conjured cartoons and camp (e.g., Blondie, the Ramones, the New York Dolls), Los Angeles was rife with bands whose names reeked of alienation fr