THE EYES, early LA circus punks who featured David Brown (Dangerhouse founder) and, for part of their life, Charlotte Caffey (later to shuffle over to the Go-Gos and achieve much fame).
This scan is taken from the Dangerhouse 2xCD of all the label’s 45s, which is available on Munster Records.
How minimal can you get?
FLESH EATERS ad for debut LP “No Questions Asked”, SLASH magazine, 1980.
THE DILS’ final record (the one that was the now-obvious precursor to Rank & File), reviewed in SLASH magazine by The Flesh Eaters’ Chris D., 1980.
I’ve recently been bidding in a couple of auctions online for old back issues of SLASH, and I’ve lost every time because I’m not willing to pay $40+ for a magazine. My loss, I’m sure, because unless someone comps all of those magazines into a book, the way Search & Destroy did over 20 years ago, I (sniff) may never get to read the whole set. #firstworldproblems
Here’s another SoCal punk mag you and I might never get to stain our hands with, courtesy of Ryan Richardson’s Fanzine Faves. It features the luminous DeDe Troit on the cover, plus a bunch of other heroes, circa 1981 – just pre-hardcore, just post-Masque/Hong Kong/“Decline”.
UPSETTER fanzine #1, 1978. This was put together in Los Angeles by Chris D. (Flesh Eaters), Judith Bell (pictured; an artist and Chris’s then-girlfriend who designed the sleeve and labels for the Flesh Eaters’ first EP) and Exene Cervenka.
You can read all about it in Dynamite Hemorrhage print fanzine #1.
(By the way, this image and many other fanzine stunners can be found at Ryan Richardson’s excellent Fanzine Faves – check it out).
THE FLESH EATERS, live at Larchmont Hall in Los Angeles, 1978. That’s Chris D. on vocals, Tito Larriva on guitar and John Richey on bass. And some dude’s Levi’s-clad ass in the lower left.
The photo’s an outtake from our lengthy interview with Mr. D. in Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #1, which you can learn more about here.
I’m a little late sharing this gem from Waitakere Walks with the people, but check out this photo of the harmonizing 1977 LA punk rock barbershop quartet, “The Four Perps”. (I just made that up, riffing on JB’s write-up on The Four Preps).
Left to right, we have Kristian Hoffman from THE MUMPS; John Denny from THE WEIRDOS; Bobby Pyn from THE GERMS, and Tomata Du Plenty from THE SCREAMERS. Apparently they’re backing up Black Randy & The Metrosquad at The Masque. Maybe you were there?
RED CROSS, circa 1981 or ‘82, with the Jeff/Steve/Tracy/Janet “Born Innocent” lineup doing “Standing in Front of Poseur” and “Linda Blair”.
AGONY SHORTHAND 