[andrea517]

Beaudry I agree with your 80's assessment of L.A. I remember going to see the Subhumans in '84 at the Olympic with friends but my parents only let me go if I agreed to them picking me up!

Originally Posted by Beaudry

Alas, 1982 was a bit early for me. As a Northener, in '82 I was frequenting shows at the Goleta Valley Community Center, I got my drivers license in '83 and started prowling LA for gigs 'round then. I have a scar on my chin from an Olympic Circle Jerks show, for what it's worth.

As this is noirish Los Angeles, I have to say, I have never experienced more true noir than LA in the early-mid 80s. There was something about it that reeked constant and unrepentant cesspool. Punk Rock was its true and virtuous outlet. Any and all of my time spent in LA in the 80s was sick, ugly, complacent, violent, stuporous and cheap. I have scars to show for it, but no memory thereof. The pleasures I attained from its disease-addled brain are the only reason I moved to its fetid terrain. Huzzah!

X sum it up --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGhgdxoPQbE



Check out Wall of Voodoo. The area was a mid-20s open-air boxing arena on El Centro between Hollywood and Selma before the Hollywood Legion Stadium was built in '38. It became a bowling alley in 1959.







http://www.newwavephotos.com/WallofVoodoo.htm

The Starwood --

http://punkturns30.blogspot.com/2008...ck-n-roll.html

http://thelareport.blogspot.com/2007...ns-photos.html