#la punk

[hagenlastkiss]

X, 1980

📷 UCLA Library

[legendarytragedynacho]

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

[maineventomega]

zero pressure to do this btw

[nobrashfestivity]

‘Pass The Dust, I Think I’m Bowie!’: True tales of Black Randy, first wave Los Angeles punk icon

The many roads that led to the happening that was to be referred to as "punk" are varied and often way more interesting than punk itself. It

[prettypersuasion]

Izzy is…a punk rocker

He was part of the LA punk scene around Orange County. He says he lived for skateboarding and punk back then. He was still going by his real name, Jeff Isbell.

He drummed for Naughty Women, The Atoms and possibly The Babysitters. He didn’t stay in any of these bands very long.

Found a very lo fi recording of The Atoms, which he’s supposed to be drumming on. Enjoy!

Back in ‘81, Izzy the punk drummer looked like this (so damn fine)

[andrewindragg]

*The match has just started*

LA Knight: Alright, let’s put Punk in position!

[hollywoodreaper]

Johnny Volatile (R.I.P.) on the roof of 1825 N. Ivar / Hollywood, CA 2004

[bitter69uk]

“In retrospect, it’s easy to dismiss the Germs as the epitome of LA’s early identipunk scene. Singer Darby Crash was a barking spiky-haired brat, an alarming adolescent combination of Johnny Rotten’s snarling vocal ferocity and Sid Vicious’ self-destructive cool. Three years after the band’s first live performance (at the Whisky in 1977), Crash died of a drug overdose, reportedly self-inflicted in morbid tribute to Vicious’ own fatal OD in 1979.”

/ From The Trouser Press Record Guide, 1985 /

Died 45 years ago today: feral frontman of Los Angeles punk band the Germs, Darby Crash (aka Bobby Pyn, real name: Jan Paul Beahm, 26 September 1958 - 7 December 1980). “He was Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious rolled into one, a befuddled punk prophet with a brilliant mind,” Chris Campion writes in “Darby Crash: Saint Anger” in the October 2014 edition of Dazed Digital. “Darby Crash presided over the birth of the LA punk scene in 1977 and signaled its demise with his own self-inflicted death three years later. His was a vision of chaos that would never come to pass but left in its wake a legacy of destruction and one fiery punk classic, the Germs' 1979 Joan Jett-produced album, G.I.” Swallow a fistful of ‘ludes, give yourself a Mohawk, smear yourself in peanut butter and blast “Forming”, “Lexicon Devil” or “Media Blitz” LOUD today in Crash’s memory!