Jeff Raphael and Alejandro Escovedo as captured by James Stark backstage at Mabuhay Gardens, SF, in 1977 and the writing is literally on the wall for the dying hippie dream of love, peace and flower power.
By the mid/late-’70s, a burgeoning punk scene was rising from the ruins of the sixties counterculture and the hippy movement that had become the status quo they had initially started out to change. To quote Jeff Raphael, a lot of people involved in punk were rejects anyway and were dissatisfied with things and the anachronistic rock scene. “Punk was about people expressing themselves, being in control of their lives and not having some corporation deciding what they needed” and “If you were in a band in 1975 or 1976 you had to be in what the ‘local scene’ was at the time or there was nowhere to play. We had to create our own place to hang out, so that’s what we did”, Jeff Raphael would tell James Stark in his book Punk ‘77.
"When [the Nuns] started out [in 1977], the punk rock ethic was to do it yourself, so the first thing we did was get in a van and go play for people. We would just travel," Escovedo recalls.
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