RE/Search Publications - Local Business - San Francisco, CA. A HAVEN FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK. Carole Lennon, the irrepressibly upbeat owner of San Francisco's oldest active rehearsal space, Lennon Studios in SoMa, watches a winter rain patter on her building's front porch. It's two days after Christmas, and she is fresh off a two-week vacation in Hawaii. "It rained for five days and five nights when I got there - torrential rain," she says in her lilting British accent. "They said they had never seen weather like that. But there it was lovely and warm, and people were running around in it. Nothing like this. " Lennon turns back to the studio's main office, where two of her longtime managers, Jimmy Crucifix, an underground punk rocker from the '80s, and Alfie Kulzick, former owner of the rock 'n' roll club Chatterbox (now Amnesia), are busy at work.
Beyond them runs a long, narrow, warehouse-style hallway with 10 studios leading off it, each equipped with a stage, PA system and speakers. The hall buzzes with half-muted music as Lennon walks along to check on the bands. Just shut up. F**K-YOU BRILLIANCE The Avengers on Blurt Online. From 1977-79 the San Francisco band The Avengers were the West Coasts answer to New York bands trying to claim the East Coast as the capitol of the punk movement. Through frenetic there-minute bursts of fuck-you brilliance on singles like "Teenage Rebel" and "We Are the One," the band cemented its reputation through live shows that drew kindred punks from across the state. The Avengers were tapped by the Sex Pistols to open the final show for the British punks and so impressed Pistols' Steve Jones that he produced a recording session for them. The band eventually broke up in 1979 with a three-song EP to their name and a bunch of unreleased tracks.
With the band ostensibly dead, Penelope Houston started a solo career that veered away from punk toward a quieter singer/songwriter folk sound. Meanwhile another EP and a full length self-titled release (often referred to as ) surfaced from The Avengers. What we were trying to do was present every song that The Avengers had written. Exactly. SFPunk2012. SFPunk2012. Jim Kettner & Eric Weiss - Back In The Day. Shut The Fuck Up 2012. Sex Pistols: Recording of ‘God Save the Queen’ goes on sale for $16,000. According to editors at Record Collector magazine a rare recording of The Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” has gone on sale for $16,000 (£10,000). It is said the A&M recording of the song is the most valuable piece of vinyl in the world, because the band was dropped by the label before the track’s release, and the bulk of copies were destroyed.
The disc is on sale at 9991.com, where it is described as: “SEX PISTOLS God Save The Queen (Well, this certainly shouldn’t need any introduction. Quite simply, a MINT unplayed copy of the legendary withdrawn 1977 UK original A&M 7” b/w No Feelings, in the A&M company sleeve. Obtained from an ex-industry source with impeccable credentials, this is not only one of the rarest records in existence but is certainly the most sought after and no serious record collection is complete without it, regardless of your thoughts on the band or indeed the music itself.
Check here for more details. Really? Never mind the bollocks, here’s Motörhead. M.D.C. AND THE VATS - FoundSF. From FoundSF Listen to an audio description of The Vats that once haunted the Hamms' Brewery, part of the "Bending Over Backwards" walking tour: mp3 voices: Patrick Simms and Jesse Drew Next Stop on "Bending Over Backwards" tour Historical Essay by Jeff Goldthorpe The old Hamms Brewery, for a brief time rehearsal space and crash pad to the local punk scene when it was known as "The Vats.
" Photo: Carla Leshne The Vats at night. Punks rock out in brief super-8mm clip shot in front of the Vats, c. 1983. Film: Glenn Bachmann By early 1982, Millions of Dead Cops (usually referred to as MDC), a rising star on the thrash circuit, decided to leave its homey but confining base of Austin, Texas and move to the big city. Like any other fledgling band, MDC was looking for cheap living and practicing accommodations. "We had to find one [beer vat] where the back had been busted in, because we couldn't get our equipment through the hole--the holes are so people could crawl in and scrub the tanks. Prev. Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps.
Sf punk reunion 2012. Ruby Ray's PUNK PASSAGE 1977-81. Northern california early punk – Search Results – The Punk Vault.