L-R: Dave Casillas, Robin Cartwright, Kyle Toucher, Joey Pina, Ismael Hernandez. Ismael brought in Joey Pina on vocals, and we could practice at his punk rock party house in Ventura. Know bass player) via a high school friendship, and he and his brothers were already deep in that first-gen punk rock scene. He was friends with Ismael Hernandez (Dr. I may have already had my Sunn Beta Lead 410 by then. He had a ramshackle drum kit, I had a cheap Korean Les Paul copy. Robin Cartwright, my best friend as a kid and still today, were ready to roll. It was very inspiring.Īfter the Black Flag show I mentioned above, the die was cast. I saw the Ramones and Runaways in 1978, and again, in a large venue (Santa Monica Civic) and it still seemed too big to attain.īlack Flag at the Starwood in Hollywood changed all that.
At 14, something of that scale intimidates your hopes as a guitar player, musician, whatever. The first concert I ever saw was Pink Floyd on the Animals tour.
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I understand why people loved them, and I did see their first reunion full make up tour and it was fun as hell, but their music and image―to me at least―harbored an enormous incongruence.
When I finally heard the album and it was uninteresting kegger rock, I felt like I'd been cheated, as they talked the talk.but they couldn't come near to what Sabbath had already done. I remember the cover art in the store the candles, the smoke, the crazy make up―and I wanted to love them. I was disappointed by KISS Alive! I'd already heard Vol. 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by the time this record was a blip on my scope. I still listen to these albums at sixty years old. Music was a new experience then, of course, nothing but discovery. But these were guitar players in their prime, absolute monsters on the instrument, right before the Van Halen revolution. Back then, these acts would toss out a studio record every year, tour the piss out of them, then fling out a live record. These records made it roil in me like the chest-burster in Alien: Later on we toured with The Exploited, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, played shows with everyone everywhere: DRI, Corrosion of Conformity, Agnostic Front, UK Subs, Discharge, Testament, Megadeth, D.O.A., Scream, you name it. We played shitty clubs, made records, hit the road, played shittier clubs, and eventually nice venues. The first-gen Los Angeles hardcore scene taught me one thing that giant stadium shows did not: I could be in a band, it was attainable. By 1981, I could think of little else, and Dr. The 1977 punk rock revolution followed, exposing me to the Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Germs, D.O.A., and Black Flag. My old man was all-in with Dixieland and Benny Goodman, my mother a fan of Elvis, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday. My sister was fully into Jesus Christ Superstar and Joni Mitchell, even Streisand. Johnny “Guitar” Watson.check that cat out. My brother hipped me to Parliament and Stevie Wonder, Elton John and an endless stream of slamming seventies funk. I was all in after that, man―if I didn't at least try to play guitar, I'd never be satisfied. Those guys were the perfect meld of what led me to powerful music and the gloomy images of the films I loved. The final the nail in my coffin was undoubtedly Black Sabbath. Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Ritchie Blackmore, Johnny Winter―all those bad ass guitar slingers grabbed my attention very early on. I'd already been very aware of it, but in those days I was inundated with Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, T.Rex, and the Stones. When I was about twelve, Late 1974 or early 1975 this would be, I swooned deeply for rock and roll. How did you get into music and how did you discover metal and punk? Honestly, I never dug the buzz cut, so I put an end to that pretty quickly.then took shit from other punk rock folks who didn't think I was punk enough. As for the locals, punk rock was something you shouldn't have been doing in those days, so you opened yourself up to a little grief. You could hitch-hike to the beach without ending up wrapped in a shower curtain, weed didn't make you hallucinate, muscle cars ruled, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were active, it was a huge event when the Stones toured and played five nights in LA, The Exorcist scared the hell out of everyone.īy the time a friend of mine and I discovered the Sex Pistols, Damned, and Ramones, they were considered so far underground you needed a shovel. In the seventies when I was coming of age, the place was great. I was born in the early '60s, so society was completely different than it is now. What was it like growing up there and how did the locals react to punk rockers?
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