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Jenny Lens Bio 2004

Jenny Lens Bio 2004

Alice Bag, Bands, Bands Misc, Belinda, Belinda Carlisle, Blondie, Bomp Records Store, Clash, Club 88, Damned, Darby Crash, Devo, Elvis Costello, England June 1980, Fiorucci's, Germs, Go-Gos, Hollywood Palladium, Iggy, Jenny Lens Bio + History, Joan Jett, Lorna Doom, Masque, Parties, Pat Smear, Patti Smith, Punk Fashions and Parties, Punk History and Interviews from Jenny Lens, Ramones, Runaways, Screamers, Screamers Parties, Sex Pistols, Stardust Ballroom, Starwood, Whisky, X, X Home | 0 comments

I wrote this in 2004. My attitude is far better, thanks to SO many great Facebook comments, messages, emails and IRL (in real life) encounters. Enjoy! I was born and raised in LA. I was a shy, introverted adolescent in the wild sixties of Vietnam protests, free love and sex due to the pill and no STDs, no AIDs, women’s liberation and civil rights. But the hippie generation were as messed up as any, far … Read...
Jenny Lens Punk Stories and Photos, LA Library

Jenny Lens Punk Stories and Photos, LA Library

2015, Bands, Jenny Lens, LA Library Photos and Stories Jan 10, Videos | 0 comments

See tons of pix and hear untold stories about the birth of LA punk, interacting with New York and British bands, parties and good times. Lots here, so sit back and enjoy!! LA Library, January 10, 2015. 1 hr, 47 minutes of cool pix and stories. Buy photos at my Photostore. Please tell folks. Thanks!Please Donate to Legal Fund to retrieve stolen negs and slides.My archive cannot survive without your … Read...
April 1977 When Punk Broke Big in LA with Jenny Lens Punk Photos

April 1977 When Punk Broke Big in LA with Jenny Lens Punk Photos

Bands, Bomp Records Store, Damned, Darby Crash, Germs, Iggy, Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Gun Club, Lorna Doom, Misc, Parties, Punk Fashions and Parties, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Screamers, Starwood, Venues, Videos, Whisky | 0 comments

 April 1977 was THE month LA punks came out in force, indicating something was happening which would change world music and culture. Along with New York and England, LA was happening! We gathered for the Cheap Trick opening for Runaways, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (April 1), opening of Bomp Records Store (April 9), Television (April 14), Blondie opening for Iggy, with the Sales Brothers and David Bowie (April 15), Bomp again with the … Read...
Obey Interview Exhibit Jenny Lens ONLY Woman Too Fast To Live, Too Young to Die Video

Obey Interview Exhibit Jenny Lens ONLY Woman Too Fast To Live, Too Young to Die Video

Bands, Jenny Lens, Shep Fairey Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die Exhibit, Videos | 0 comments

Talking about my photos at Shepard Fairey’s Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die, Subliminal Projects. I was ONLY woman and earliest punk photographer in the exhibit. 2/25-3/26/2010. 2:46. Buy photos at my Photostore. Please tell folks. Thanks!Please Donate to Legal Fund to retrieve stolen negs and slides.My archive cannot survive without your support. Thanks! … Read...
Go-Go’s 1977-1980 We Got The Beat!

Go-Go’s 1977-1980 We Got The Beat!

Bands, Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Darby Crash, England June 1980, Germs, Go-Gos, Jane Draino Wiedlin, Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Gun Club, Lorna Doom, Masque, Masque Benefit Feb 24-25 1978, Parties, Punk Fashions and Parties, Screamers, Sex Pistols, Slash Mag Benefit, Starwood, Whisky, X, X Home | 2 comments

Go-Gos, 1977-1980. I loved photographing Belinda Carlisle, Jane Draino Wiedlin, and the totes adorbs Margot. A few shots of Charlotte Caffey with then-boyfriend, Leonard Phillips, singer of the Dickies, first LA punk band to get signed. Plus Jane with her then-boyfriend, Terry Graham, drummer for the Bags and Gun Club. And more, so let's get started with some IDs and stories behind my photos. Plus so many of our friends. Good times.

Creem Magazine and Photographer Jenny Lens

Bands, Blondie, Clash, Damned, Darby Crash, England June 1980, Germs, Iggy, Jam, Joan Jett, Joe Strummer, Lita Ford, Masque, Queen, Ramones, Runaways, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Screamers, Starwood, Whisky, Writers | 0 comments

Creem Magazine was THE ROCK magazine. The best of the best was, without a doubt, Creem. Forget Rolling Stone. Corporate and usually dismissive of Punk. Yes, Creem magazine was the BEST ROCK MAG. Ever. Read on to see they didn’t treat me that well, lost slides, but hey, THEY WERE IT. And Creem, of all the mags, deserves to be honored, remembered and most of all, CELEBRATED. Contribute to … Read...

Riot on Sunset and Punk at Whisky

Blog, Fashion, Germs, Punk Fashions and Parties, Punk History and Interviews from Jenny Lens, Whisky | 0 comments

My rebuttal to article claiming Punk saved the Whisky but then talked more about non-punk bands. Minimal about LA Punk bands. I could write a book. Read what I wrote (below or use link) after reading his long article. Why the fashion photo above? Author included photos of English punks with swastikas on their faces. Not in LA! Plus most everyone in the above photo played a VITAL part in bringing punk to life. At … Read...

Screamers, Whisky 1977

Blog, Fashion, Screamers, Whisky | 0 comments

Screamers, Whisky, 1977. NEVER SEEN!! Have YOU ever seen Screamers negs like these? LIKE BEING AT THE SHOW. Imagine these LARGE! Tommy Gear is lit so dramatically. Singing. You don’t see that often!! I also have color slides. Tommy is in my first LA Punk Mini-Print, Maxi-Collection set.  YOU wanna SEE MORE? Pledge to our Fund Raiser and/or Buy Prints and/or Mini-Print, Maxi-Collections. TODAY. My LAST Hurrah. Moving on, unless you … Read...

Jenny Lens: Ramones Numero Uno Fan, Street Life

Blog, Fashion, Jenny Lens, Press, Punk Fashions and Parties, Ramones, Screamers, Screamers Parties, Whisky | 0 comments

by Richard Schaefer in Lisa Fancher’s “Street Life” fanzine. Proof I was the Ramones “numero uno fan and famous paparazzi in her own right.” In EARLY 1977!! Tantalizing sounds of the skirmishes of desire, of lips surrendering cheap kissed in the other room, brought torture to anyone who listened. We stood between the jungle and the stars, both of us trying to keep our balance as we fought. DEE DEE was a madman … Read...

Ghosts of My Town

Blog, Club 88, Fashion, Joan Jett, Masque, Punk Fashions and Parties, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Starwood, Venues, Whisky | 1 comment

Claude “Kick Boy” Bessy, in “Decline of the Western Civilization,” Part 1, directed by Penelope Spheeris, reads a letter to the editor of Slash Magazine, his role at that pioneering punk fanzine. He relates the tale wherein the writer is complaining about people who threw themselves onto the back bumper of the car and held on as the car drove away. The irony is Claude was one of the people hanging onto … Read...

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