Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[Larry Roberts <larrybob AT io.com>]

The links and photos won't come through in this email but you get the idea...

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BRENDAN MULLEN, THE ECHO & SWINDLE MAGAZINE PRESENT

HEY, MORTALITY! Dead or Alive in '07?
PUNK VETERAN'S DAY, 2007

Celebrate the release of .Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley., a 
300+ page book painstakingly compiled and edited by Brendan Mullen and 
Roger Gastman.

Date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
Where: Echoplex + Echo
Enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd., between Scott & Park avenues in Echo Park, 
CA 90026
Time: 3 p.m. onwards
All ages

Who:
THE PLUGZ
THE EYES
THE DEADBEATS
SKULLS
CONTROLLERS
and a hell of a lot more...
About the book

The book includes previously unpublished photos, posters and flyers for 
bands that got their start there. X, Go Go.s, Dickies, Bags, Eyes, Black 
Randy & the Metro Squad, Plugz, Skulls, Controllers and the Deadbeats leap 
out of every page, many of them in full color. Also included are 
pre-Masque bands that played there to ever-expanding audiences, namely the 
Alleycats, Zeros, Dils, Screamers, Germs, Weirdos, Avengers, Mau Mau.s, 
and many more pioneers of early West Coast punk/hardcore.

Photography by Alain Saint-Alix, Jill Ash, Jules Bates, Michelle Bell, 
Gabi Berlin, Eric Blum, Jim Carberry, Kerry Colonna, Chris D., Al 
Flipside, Frank Gargani, Dave Goldberg, Bonnie Gordon, Diane Grove, Bibbe 
Hansen, Jenny Lens, Scott Lindgren, Ladd McPartland, Tony Montesion, 
Melanie Nissen, Donna Santisi, Jules Shobert, Robert Steinberg, Ann Summa, 
Carol Torres, Jimmy Towns, Jill Von Hoffman, Philomena Winstanley, Dawn 
Wirth, Herb Wrede and Michael Yampolsky.

Poster and flyer design by David Allen, Judith Bell, Bob Biggs, David 
Brown, Exene Cervenka, Chris D., Margaret Guzman, Larry .Dammit. Hammett, 
Havoc, Lux Interior, Tony Kinman, Paul Lesperance, Brendan Mullen, Paul 
Picasso, Tom Recchion and Cliff Roman.

Foreword by curator and historian Kristine McKenna.
Introduction by Brendan Mullen.

Amazon link to Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley
More about the line-up:

        PLUGZ

Tito Larriva, Barry McBride & Charlie Quintana will reunite for the first 
time since 1982 to perform the Electrify Me album in its entirety. This 
classic recording was the first full-length studio album to be 
self-produced and self-released by any band from the local .77 punk scene.

photo by Jenny Lens     THE EYES

The Eyes (with Charlotte Caffey of the Go Go.s, DJ Bonebrake of X and The 
Knitters, and Joe Ramirez of Black Randy & the Metro Squad) are one of the 
original pop-punkers to play the Masque. The Eyes were an awesome .power 
trio. who beautifully belied the myth that punks down there didn.t know 
how to play their instruments.

photo by Michael Yampolsky      SKULLS

Billy Bones and his new band of young 'uns convene an open jam for all 
living alumni from the beginning of the band [Fall of 1977] to the 
present. Expect all the early hits and a few deranged covers: Victims, 
Incomplete Suicide, Kill Me, Kill Me, Building Models, On Target, etc.

photo by Michael Yampolsky      THE DEADBEATS

Scott Guerin founder of the Deadbeats, probably the world's first 
.jazz-punk. group and a Masque regular reforms the band for the first time 
since the early 80s. Known for elaborate stage outfits and theatrical 
props as much as dark, murderous lyrics, the Deadbeats boasted real 
musicians; cool guys with serious chops who never overplayed, the 
Deadbeats will pay tribute to Scott's late brother Shawn Guerin, the 
band's original astounding drummer. Best known for Kill the Hippies, Final 
Ride and Maria Maria (I Just Shot a Girl Named Maria). Hopefully, Geza X 
will also join in on guitar.

photo by Alain Saint-Alix       CONTROLLERS

Along with the Skulls, the Michigan-transplanted Controllers played the 
Masque the most where they attracted the attention of NY-transplanted 
Fluxus artist Al Hansen who managed them from late '77 into 79. Stingray 
will hopefully throw in a few numbers by his other band Kaos. I begged him 
for Iron Dream, at least.