OK, I know nobody cares but me, but still I gotta speak up for Electrify Me, the great lost L.A. punk album. I play it more often than Los Angeles, Wild Gift and The Record combined. (And don't even start talking to me about the fucking Germs.)
THE MASQUE 30th ANNIVERSARY PARTY & BOOK RELEASE
Venue: Echoplex + Echo
Date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
Time: 3pm onwards
Where: Enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd in Echo Park, CA
Who: THE PLUGZ (Tito Larriva, Barry McBride & Charlie Quintana), THE EYES (Charlotte Caffey of the Go Go’s; DJ Bonebrake of X; Knitters and Joe Ramirez of Black Randy & the Metro Squad), SKULLS and a hell of a lot more TBA. All Ages
Celebrate the release of Live at the Masque 77-79 (R77/Gingko Press) a 300+ page photo artbook painstakingly compiled and edited by Brendan Mullen (Masque founder-author) and street art digital archivist Roger Gastman (founder of R77 Books) featuring several different locations for the Masque and Masque Presents shows, including the original basement space of Cecil B. de Mille’s building
in downtown Hollywood.
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 self-produced, self-released on their own label by any band from the ’77 punk scene.
The Eyes (with Charlotte Caffey of the Go Go’s), DJ Bonebrake (X, Knitters) and Joe Ramirez (Black Randy & the Metro Squad)…one of the original pop-punkers to play the Masque, the Eyes beautifully belied the myth that punk rock bands didn’t know how to play their instruments. Along with the Avengers, the Eyes were Masque regulars and an unacknowledged early influence on X, still getting their sound down during 1977.
This original version of the Eyes broke up during 1978 when X raided DJ and the Go Go’s bagged Charlotte. Joe Ramirez who played punk rock on a Telecaster and performed and recorded with Black Randy’s band, will fly in specially from his current home in Casper, Wyoming.
THE SKULLS.
The Billy Bones Band convenes an open invitation to living Skulls alumni from the beginning of the band (Fall of 1977 to the present] to come and join in. Expect all the early hits: Victims, Incomplete Suicide, Kill Me, Kill Me, Building Models, On Target, etc. and whatever surprises… Many more bands TBA next week…
― unperson, Thursday, 25 October 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)
who played keyboards in the Eyes?
David Brown. (Found my singles!)
This show does look very good.
― nickn, Friday, 26 October 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)
Nope. Electrify Me and Better Luck were out on cassette and probably CD on Restless/Enigma in the 80s, but died when the label did. I once tried to talk Rollins into reissuing Electrify Me on Infinite Zero, but that label went under, too.
― unperson, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)