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WE GOT POWER!: HARDCORE PUNK SCENES FROM 1980S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FREE DOWNLOAD David Markey | 306 pages | 10 Jan 2013 | Bazillion Points | 9781935950073 | English | Brooklyn, United States We Got Power! Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California (David Markey) He photographed, edited, cowrote, and directed "Lovedolls Superstar" in For the younger generation in today's Punk scene, this is one of the more definitive books you can get your hands on to teach you about your history as you turn each page. InJordan began working and living at SST Records Global Network Agency booking gigs and tours for various high-profile bands on and off of the label during the pioneering years of the U. Inpunk was over… but byhardcore was born. We were into the character of the people, and what we felt was the quality of their music. Reviews There are no reviews yet. It accurately reflected and documented a local underground music scene, one fertile and diverse enough to spawn such groups as the Henry Rollins-era Black Flag and its contrarian mirror-image White Flag, led by Pat Fearthe Minutemen, Saccharine Trust, Redd Kross, the Descendents, the Last, Gun Club, Suicidal Tendencies and more besides. Clearly, the concerns one has as an year-old are not going to be the same at Description Inpunk was over. And, really, it had everything to do with me taking the bull by the horns, and wrangling an entirely new project from the work. It helped that I had many. Send your comments to the editor HERE. DM: I hope that the reader can enter this We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California and immerse him or herself in it, and feel what it was like to be a participant in this particular place and time, and maybe come away with a larger cultural experience, or at least something a little deeper than what one would get from a more casual overview. Yes, that was definitely going on. Boon from the Minutemen at a house party, But I know now that my youth was not wasted, and I can look at all that stuff now and realize I was pretty much on the ball, even as it rolled and We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California to a different ball, thankfully the ball never rolled over me. This book is a lot more than just another "Punk Scene" book, this is as real We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California it gets by two guys, Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz, the proprietors of We Got Power fanzine based in Los Angeles who were at ground zero in the early 80's. But I have found a sort of happy place with the past, and I realize from a very early age I have had a certain vision that has remain consistent, but has definitely matured throughout time. Big Wheel poll question for this week. RCN: I recently read a conversation between John Cale and the actor Willem Dafoe, where at one point they talk about how when they first started in their creative pursuits, they were the youngest in any crowd of people so involved, but that nowadays the people around them involved or interested in such things keep getting younger. By the time he was ready to release it, though, Ecstatic Peace! Mood of Defiance at The Barn. Any thoughts? As teenagers inDavid Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded "We Got Power" a fanzine dedicated to the first-generation hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Essential reading. JS: For the people that wrote for the book, I hope it inspires them to keep writing. But actually those episodes were laughably bad, even back at that time! Your cart 0. Big Wheel poll question for this week How many times have you seen your favorite band play? Search for:. The book is laced with very candid and sometimes self effacing essays by some of the Punk scenes most noted luminaries that include, Henry Rollins, Pat Fear, Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Mike Watt, Tony Adolescents, Louiche Mayorga, Steve Human and more to give you a special insight into the Punk scene from their point of view. It had me thinking differently, to be both the guy in front of and behind the camera. I suppose it eventually happens, if you are lucky enough to be able to produce work and continue to make new work. For the people in the book, I hope it brought back some good memories and that they can deal with the heavy or sad ones. How important to the scene, as We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California covered it, were those on the second line? When you and Jordan decided to go for doing the book, how much of an archive of photos etc. Inhe became involved in the local underground music scene. Jordan Schwartz met David Markey while skateboarding in a flooded Santa Monica parking garage in Of course there were quite a few from the South Bay, including Black Flag, which helped define the genre, then started tearing it down starting with the My War album, and bands like the Minutemen, which were referred to as Weird Hardcore. Obviously you have a few plates spinning at the moment, between the book and the new Circle Jerks documentary. One might think that maybe, when TYPB came out that might have been the perfect time to capitalize on your previous work. Some pretty stark graphics and unique ideas and work within those pages. Essential reading Site sponsor. DM: Starting out in this scene as both a musician and documentarian gave me an interesting perspective. Thankfully authors Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz open up their archives of photos t hat successfully document these moments in time which were common place for Punks of that era, while readers outside of the scene would find beyond belief. RSS News Feed. Granted we were big fans of Black Flag, the Circle Jerks and Dead Kennedys, so if we could get an interview or print a full-page photo [with them], we would. Never before seen, except in crude fanzine form, these detailed and richly narrative photos are now collected to present an intimate document a uniquely fertile creative moments. JS: Thurston was interested in doing the project, but released a bunch of other titles before he was ready to start working on ours. We Got Power! I think one of the advantages to waiting was the advances made in software for home We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California, which is where this project started, with a negative scanner and film cleaner towards the end of How many times have you seen your favorite band play? In addition to the fanzine, most of us were involved with various bands, record projects, and also I was making [my] Super-8 films at the time, too. JS: Kim Pilkington, Dave, and I used to make jokes about being punk rock historians when we were driving out to gigs and now Dave and I are kind of in that role. Some of it is hilarious! A document of bands and people who would go on to be legends in one way or another. Get We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California if you have any interest in Californian punk and hardcore! September-October Volume 11, Issue This is a modern website which will require Javascript to work. What inspired you, then, to finally get this into book form? I know how crucial it was for me as a kid to have artists to look up to and aspire to, and be influenced by..