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WE'RE ALL DEVO Video LP on Betamax video cassette c. 1983.

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Found photo. Pink bunny rabbit? Check. 10 leis? Check. Shelley Duvall cigarette in The Shining? Check. Bottle of Smirnoff? Check. Metal serving bowl on head? Check. I think that checks all the swingin' party boxes.

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Simple but powerful flyer for Dickheads, The Job and Red Asphalt at Valencia Tool & Die in San Francisco, September 25, 1981.

"Shortly after Allen Ginsberg's appearance at Valencia Tool & Die, this short piece appeared in Herb Caen's column in the San Francisco Chrionicle "I have a punk pen pal who signs herself Pheno Barbidol and tries to keep me clued in to what's happening on the new wave scene around here. I assume Pheno is a she since the letters, generally chiding in tone, include a red lipstick imprint under the signature. Of course, in San Francisco, one never knows, but in my mind, Pheno is all girl and also literate. Her latest screed begins: "Well you did it again, you culturally disoriented old reprobate. You really missed the boat with your weekend activities. What did you do … go to some incredibly boring cocktail party? Or maybe you hobnobbed at another one of your mindless middle class galas? Ugh. What you could have been doing instead — if you'd pay attention to the fliers you see splashed like pimples on S.F.'s fragile face — is see history in the making on Friday night at the Tool & Die on Valencia. That's right, bucko. History! … Allen Ginsberg was there singing his own new wave song, 'Capitol Air,' with new wave band extraordinaire, The Job."

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X, Subhumans (Vancouver, BC) and Gun Club at the Russian Center in San Francisco, October 24, 1981. Most excellent radio station KPOO is still going strong (though no punk shows these days), as is the Russian Center (ditto).

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Back to my natural habitat this Saturday at The Homestead in San Francisco. Lots of new records to share!

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Depeche Mode with B Team, Kabuki Night Club San Francisco, 1982.

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Ad for Suburban Lawns 7" in Splash magazine, 1979.

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20 years for Raub, Rio and Austin's Homestead, 8 years for So It Goes! All vinyl, all night- your favorite punk, post-punk, power pop, new wave, paisley underground and more.

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The Champs residency at dj's in North Beach, San Francisco c. 1964- would later morph into Mother's which was considered the first psychedelic nightclub. Boss deejays Tom Donahue and Bobby Mitchell from KYA radio opened Mother’s in the summer of 1965.

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VKTMS, Breakouts, Red Rockers at Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco August 1981.

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"The People's Cologne" Ad in the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival program. This is what they were making in Palo Alto before it became Silicon Valley...

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Just a few little bands you could catch at Berkeley Square in December 1982.

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Swell Maps Stomped

"The three were hit with their own instruments..."

NME, 17th November, 1979.

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Get yer rock 'n roll fix tomorrow night at The Homestead in SF- 9 to close.

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Saturday night in SF- punk, rock 'n roll, power pop and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers. All vinyl, natch.