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Wattles Park Birthday Party, Tomata du Plenty, Liara May 28, 1979

Blog, Fashion, Parties, Screamers | 1 comment

Wattles Park Birthday Party for Screamer Tomata du Plenty, and Liara, w/her sister, Chase Holiday, May 28, 1979. RARE daytime event for LA Punks! Great, colorful fashions, predicting 1980s colors, prom dresses, chiffons, layers, etc. Pre-dating Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. Top photo is a fuzzy scan. Pre-dates MTV and the 1980s! WE SET TRENDS in LA. But the media always paid more attention to New York. We did it first and better. Said as … 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...

X, 1977-1980

Blog, Club 88, Decline of Western Civil 1, Fashion, Hollywood Palladium, Slash Mag Benefit, Slash Mag Rooftop, Stardust Ballroom, Whisky, X, X Home | 0 comments

Words cannot express how I feel looking at this collage of my X photos. SO many memories, such great music, being present when songs forming, debuts, evolving, parties, people (too many departed this realm), the dreams, the fullness of living. X were and remain my fave band of all time. Unlike other bands, a woman’s POV is strong in X. Plus the noir side of city of electric lights, my birth city, the … Read...

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