Apr 8, 2020
Don Vinyl of The Offs and Rico in the days of the early West Coast punk scene back in 1978, as captured by Jim Jocoy and included in his book “We’re Desperate”.
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Don Vinyl of The Offs and Rico in the days of the early West Coast punk scene back in 1978, as captured by Jim Jocoy and included in his book “We’re Desperate”.
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A moment in punk history:
The Offs (Don Vinil - vocals, Billy Hawk - guitars, Rob Strange - bass, Chris Olson - drums) putting their set list together over a pool table for a ‘79 gig at the Cowell College Dining Hall in Santa Cruz, as captured by Christeen Alcino.
“...The Offs were unique among the first wave of West Coast punk bands in maintaining a home base on both coasts. In San Francisco, their manager discovered the Deaf Club as a live venue, & the Offs released records on the labels CD Presents and 415 Records. In New York City, they hung out with Basquiat (who scrawled their album cover), & released a single on Max's Kansas City Records.
The greatest thing was their inability to be pigeon-holed. Were they punk? New wave? Avant-garde? Art rock? No New York noise? A new strain of art jazz? Some odd form of mutant ska gone wrong with bleating sax & screeching vocals? They were sort of all these things, & still others with names that haven't been invented.
But what tied them to the punk community was the basic blazing energy to everything they did. These weren't a bunch of art school posers, they were smash-it-up party skanksters who wanted to do something fresh within an absolutely remarkably creative late-'70s Bay Area scene -- in cahoots with Crime, Nuns, Avengers, Negative Trend, Flipper, Pink Section, Tuxedomoon, Vktms, Mutants, Lewd, Dils, Zeros, & more...”
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The Offs advertisement for "You Fascinate Me b/w My World" in Damage, No. 8 (1980)
