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John Colle Rogers

John Colle Rogers

Back in 1984 I was a metalhead in North Dakota, a musical wasteland in many ways where we were tasked with finding alternatives on our own if we wanted to stray from the clutches of…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on June 15, 2022June 15, 2022
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Lawson Desrochers (aka Lawson Jealous)

Lawson Desrochers (aka Lawson Jealous)

Like everyone, I had heard about the Sex Pistols and the Clash, even dug some of their tunes early on, but punk truly came to my world in 1981 via the older kids in Santa…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on May 18, 2022
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Going to the Cathay

Going to the Cathay

Photo by Gary Leonard.…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on April 20, 2022April 20, 2022
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Joe Mendelson

Joe Mendelson

My overwhelming passion for rock music began in 3rd grade, although I have a very distinct memory of being completely mesmerized by The Who’s I can see for miles that I heard on my sister’s…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on March 22, 2022March 30, 2022
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Tim Tracy

Tim Tracy

My PUNK STORY: My Punk story starts way, way before PUNK.  My dad (or DA, as we say with our family voice in Ireland) introduced me to “HardCore” Dixieland via record albums when I was…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
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Jennifer Schwartz

Jennifer Schwartz

This first time I heard the two words, “punk rock,” was around 1977. My mom, brother and I had just moved to Beverly Hills. That place sucks. Anyway, one day, a girl from my 8th…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on December 7, 2021
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Robert Hecker

Robert Hecker

I grew up in Hermosa Beach, California, and there was definitely a something-in-the-water thing going on in our sleepy little beach town. There was a decommissioned church that I knew as the arts & crafts…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021
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ChrisO’

ChrisO’

My story began when I came back from living on Oahu the summer of 1979. On the North Shore where I had lived since 1976, I was sheltered from all the music that was happening…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on October 30, 2021
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The origins of Larktavia

The origins of Larktavia

Wax lips sink ships!
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  • by ssilk
  • Posted on October 28, 2021October 28, 2021
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Deathany

Deathany

I guess it’s all Jeremy Freeze’s fault. He was my little brother’s best friend who lived down the street. He came over after school one day with a mixed tape of Dead Kennedys, Black Flag,…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on October 14, 2021October 14, 2021
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Kip-Xool

Kip-Xool

“TURN THAT BLOODY RACKET DOWN!! HOW CAN YOU CALL THAT MUSIC??!” Perhaps not the best psychological approach to curb a teenager’s new-found calling, but it also signalled a sense that I was in the right…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on October 12, 2021October 12, 2021
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Stephanie Silk

Stephanie Silk

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. I went to Catholic school for 14 years. I had a pretty standard but boring start to things. I loved going…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on August 1, 2020August 26, 2021
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Peter Landau

Peter Landau

My childhood was idyllic until my family was part of the middle-class exodus from New York City in the early 1970s. I was eight years old and would have been able to walk across the…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on May 22, 2022May 22, 2022
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The Discontent of Girls

The Discontent of Girls

As a woman “of a certain age” (as I refer to myself,) one might view me as simply a woman in nondescript clothing with a nondescript haircut leading a normal life. However inside my head…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
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Billy Lorance

Billy Lorance

Full-blown hippie life was before me as a child. Our house had waterbeds, water pillows, water couches, and water pipes. Psychedelic colored bean bag chairs adorned the living room floor and coffee colored beads hung…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
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Johnny Stingray

Johnny Stingray

I guess it was ‘75 or so, I was working at an appliance store in Burbank, CA and living in Santa Monica with Kidd Spike (then known as Jeff Austin) and his sister, Gaye. Gaye…

  • by ssilk
  • Posted on December 24, 2021February 20, 2022
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