Sep 12, 2025
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Alice Bag
Shannon Wilhelm (Castration Squad), Trixie Treat, and Alice Bag (The Bags) in front of Revenge (a punk clothing store in the East Village of New York City) -July 1978
When drummer Don Bolles was sacked from LA punk band the Germs he was already a member of Vox Pop, girlfriend Mary was quickly becoming 'Dinah Cancer' and their horror-punk band 45 Grave was in its infant stages.
Around the same time bands like the A-Sexuals, the Decadent and Speed Queens would soon become Christian Death and Super Heroines. Add to this the early incarnations of Kommunity FK, Nervous Gender and Voodoo Church, plus Castration Squad, Aphotic Culture and Die Schlaflosen, along with Radio Werewolf, Ex VoTo, Screams for Tina and a host of others...
The roots of the Los Angeles deathrock scene, an integral part of the later goth movement were starting to take shape.
Phantoms relays this previously unheard story, told in the oral history style through extensive interviews band members, scenesters, photographers and club-/label-owners.
Scan of a photo by Frank Gargani from NoMag.
TIL about Castration Squad, an all-women Los Angeles punk band featuring Phranc of Nervous Gender, Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave, Elissa Bello of The Go-Go's, Alice Bag of the Bags, Tracy Lea of Redd Kross, and Shannon Wilhelm. https://dangerousminds.net/comments/castration_squad_alice_bag_and_dinah_cancers_early_deathrock_band
Shannon Wilhelm e Mary Bat-thing(Dinah Cancer) Castration Squad - 1981
shannon wilhelm of castration squad
Castration Squad - No Mercy For The Dead
Halloween Season - Punk/Goth/Deathrock