Punk Rock Saved My Life: RAW POWER HC WEEK of FUN + 20 years ago !

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RAW POWER PICS
FROM 20 YEARS AGO
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WE JAM ECONO

hi folks, the minutemen doc is out,
it has some of my original
footage I took those many
punk years ago (click pic - all info ).

- RAW POWER HARD CORE
20 YEARS AGO PICS see below

our innerview live pics!
our filming pics, even more....

-TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
& NO SGT PEPPER
(THANK YOU)

20 years later we record and interview RAW POWER ... AGAIN !
I head out to Torrance from the Valley to pick-up Kiki and we go...
well, WE ARE NOT SURE WHERE?
All week we had been trying to meld with RAW POWER as we
did twenty years ago at Oskar's Corn Husker in Whittier.
They supposedly were going to play at zen sushi in Silverlake,
as you see in these pics I took with my phone cam, it was CLOSED.

Then at the end of the week we called the Alpine skate park in Ventura
to ask if the band played, no one knows a thing, finally calling Corona
where we told they did play. OK, but now the only place left that
we read they were playing was the Warehouse in Long Beach
with no address. A SEARCH provided the address but no phone.

Saturday at 11:15 pm I called Kiki who was almost asleep
and said LET'S GO! I drove to the South Bay, picked her up
and proceeded to unknown territory. Would they let us in
especially with cameras, would the band remember us?
Here we were in the industrial part of LB, where was it?
Losing directions... but There it was, a small building,
we walked in and the band was playing, others had cameras
so THERE WE WERE!
I taped the really dark visually set, people were excited and
greatly appreciated RAW POWER'S MUSIC, as did we.
Right after the set we met MAURO and the other
new members and Kiki proceeded to interview in ITALIAN
& ENGLISH as we did twenty years ago.
IT WAS VERY SAD finding out the always happy
brother guitarist Giuseppe had passed in 2003.

When I told MAURO about the zen sushi he said THEY TOLD
him 2 weeks ago that they had 'overbooked' and had another
band billed for the same date.
LIES,,, zen sushi LIED I have the photos above
showing nothing was there that nite,
DAMN PUNKERS.
-Louis. SEE KIKIs ASSESSMENT below >

I must THANK anyone who took still FLASH pics
because that is how I got these still shots from the
video which sounded great but it being very DARK
the real filming looks like the pic above left.

20
YEARS
AGO
pics
below...

-KIKI XPOSER RELATES AND TRANSLATES

RAW: being in or nearly in the natural state: not processed nor purified,
not diluted nor blended POWER: ability to act or produce an effect, having
influence : POWERFUL- achieving or bringing about a particular result,
rich in a characteristic constituent>able to copulate -usually used of the male
RAW POWER – Italy’s best kept secret!
With the passing of a beloved brother and founding band member and with
absolutely NO airplay both here and in Europe, over the course of a decade
most bands would drop into the Once Upon a Long Time Ago category
- But not Raw Power!

RAW POWER IN
LONG BEACH, CA.

After the death of guitarist brother Giuseppe in 2003, the remaining
band members went their separate ways. Although his brother was gone,
his spirit and enthusiastic love of life and fun continued to live on among
the bands many outsourced fans. It was this very undying devotion
combined with a genuine heavy heart which led Mauro to dream the
impossible- keeping Raw Power and his bro’s essence alive and gigin’.
It just so happened that way about 10 years ago. Through friends and
fans alike, auditions were held and the right band members were found.
Members devoted to one thing only – keeping Giuseppe and Raw Power

Giuseppe & 20 YEARS AGO

also 20 years plus ago...( enlarge:click )

alive. So how did it feel to have crossed over into the new millennium?
A pure labor of love –the saddest happiest moment of life. Will
Raw Power ever release new product? A CD from the bands original
recording was released, but that will be the extent of it. The band is
dedicated to remaining a kind of live and in your face musical memorial
to Giuseppe’s spirit. No one will ever match his songwriting abilities,
and no one wants to try. To do so would undermine the reason for the bands
existence today, and completely change the style and sound. There can only
be one Raw Power- and so they tour playing all of Giuseppe’s songs and favorites.
And they always will.
But how can this be? Being that Italy’s radio stations only play mainstream
pop and American nutra sweet junk music-how does the band remaine so hot?
Yes- and you thought your band had it rough-how bout it peeps? The Italian
government controls all radio and media, and they don’t give anyone else
a shot at stardom!
Yes, there are a few Italian indie and major record labels signing bands and
putting out product – so how do you sell records without airplay or media hype?
Well, you really don’t. How about gigs, I asked. What gigs? Oh, you mean in
the Discotecs? Disco??? Yes, it seems the only clubs in Italy
are disco! As far as gigin’ goes- you have to have a following, know
underground house party producers, be willing to take a cut or play for free,
and wait until the producers find a place and start advertising the gig.

Yep-it seems we all have to pay to play in one sense or another!
Surely were they on Indie 103, or are they at least charting on the
American radio- NO! NO? Absolutely no LA county airplay at all!
Ask yourself- so how do they do it-how can they still pack the house
every time they play? Mauro has no answer for me- he believes the
foundations laid down alongside his bro years ago has kept Raw Power
alive and in the spotlight. He loved the fans and the fans loved back
and continue to do so, so much so they come to the hotel rooms and
hang-out, even treating the band members to dinner. We met three
Mexico punkers who had hung out and taken the band to a restarant
for tacos al carbone! Now that’s dedicated fanship peoples- we could
all use a fan base like that! Shoots, they were even rooting for Italy
to win the cup! Amazing what a little fan kindeness given years ago
will do for a band 20 odd years later!
Will Raw Power be back soon? You know they will-they adore us
Southern Cali LA county peeps. Will the band ever change?
You know they won’t and for whomever thinks they should
– “Tutti Culi” that’s what you are- just a bunch a “Tutti Culi”
Now go find an old country Italian Mam’a to splain’ it to you
and while you’re at it- have another heaping of mam’a’s
mostaccoli and thank your lucky Hollywood stars you can blow
your money at any club you like!
Ciao for now peeps- be good or be Guido!

-La signorina Kiki.

-HERE ARE SHOTS OF KIKI & MAURO
and SHOTS FROM OUR FILMING

-RAW POWER IN ACTION PICS more this week...
yes even more... MORE! yes mo' mo'.
above pics from 20 YEARS AGO.

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-SPECIAL CONFLICT FULFILLMENT BY KIKI...

Sat & Sun: THE ANSWER...WHO, WHEN & WHERE
(why, well itz punk)
another ANCIENT PUNK ARCHIVE PIC
from My and Kiki's own filming productions
over 20 years ago. With this one we
had "SUM SPLAININ TO DO - lucy," ...

KIKI XPOSER MORETTI -'spainin' it to you- lucy'

HAVING A CONFLICT WITH CONFLICT!

Don’t mess with words – especially when the word happens to be Conflict!
It is a well known fact that words reflect their meaning- and so is it any
wonder that we – Video Louis and I would have anything else but a minor
Conflict with the band CONFLICT?

It just so

happened

that way!

The Olympic Auditorium – remember? Yeah,and the hollowed out spaces
the Olympic dared call “backstage rooms?” For those of you not fortunate
enough to actually have experienced those 8x10 boxes of a room- let me
just say to you- you could smell the Old Spice or B.O. –the smell lingering
upon your going out clothing long after the night was over!

And you chicks know exactly what I’m talking about! Like someone sweating
on you and the sweat sticking on your skin, and you going home and crashing
with the sweat still cling – on to your skin-
The best sex I never had with how many sweaty guys?
“Oh but I did sleep with you-don’t you remember spillin’ your B.O. on me?”
Oil well – hot stage lights combined with hot temps mixed together with hot
sticky sweat and perhaps a raging performance mental hard on makes for
quite a combustionable and conflicting Video Louis and Kiki Xposer Old
Skool Punk Rock conflicting moment!

Yeah – and so it happens just like that – your brain is still hard and on-stage,
but your body is a sweating and dripping profusely back stage-
You are so performance high and yet at the same time –
you are droppin’ down wet and cold- kerplunk!
We at Xposer understand these facts of a punk artist’s life,
and we try very hard NEVER to cross that line – but every
once in a while that darn sweatyhot Hollywood county
testosterone kicks in and we encounter a Bitch moment –

And so it goes that when you “do” a band a named of CONFLICT –
Upon your life a wee bit of CONFLICT must fall –

And so it did, backstage as we just finished filming –
a conflicted band member
came up to us and began a ruckus – a “rauw” you might say,
asking the very same questions all of the out of touch triple chin band
managers and media execs had asked of us in the past:

“ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE HERE?
DO YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO FILM? WHO ARE YOU???”
asked THE Conflict band mate!

Yes, but we did have permission to film the band, and we were there because
Gary GoldenVoice Tovar wanted us there, to document the historic moments
of his and the LA music scene’s life.
Words flew, passes were shown, credentials were flashed, and before you
could say ANARCHY F*** Y** - it was all over!
Especially since rather that “having it away”- we gave them a copy of our tape
of their show, like we always do, and offered our services to the band.
Because we as Xposer are a portal of promotions – always have been
and continue to be- and we are here for YOU, the Artist and Listener-

Always have been – Always will be
Xposer baby – Xposing you, and you, and yes, even you to the best of
YOU, and YOU, and yes, even YOU!
Oh – You say You Weren’t Born Yet and Missed It All? NO PROBLEM
– we anticipated it and taped all the shows Just For YOU!

Because we like U!
Who’s Xposing YOU, alwayz? XPOSER WWM babys!
26 YEARS AND STILL XPOSING YOUR
LOST ANGELES AND R.I.P. MUSIC SCENE
Xposer – The Lost Angeles Bands In The Lost Angeles Venues
L-Amen! A piece of our lost LA music scene Be With You – ALWAYZ !
Kiki Xposer

OH, THE BAND IS CONFLICT
IF KIKI's MESSAGE didn't give
you the hint....... an English punk band
clic on singer above to learn more...

CONFLICT WAS STAYING IN MONTROSE

AT ETCH'S HOUSE,

NEAR SUNLAND TUJUNGA WERE I LIVE
WE MADE BEST FRIENDS, TAPING EXCLUSIVELY
FOR THEM IN SAUGUS THE NEXT DAY.

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L.A. pUNK gIGS
July 18, 2006
thru July 24, 2006

TUE july18, 2006

BLUES BAND NIGHT HOSTED BY:
· “Louis & The Blu-Tones” 8.00pm
Anarchy Library

WED july 19, 2006

Medicine Bag 10.00

Clouds Turned Black 9.00

· A Bitter End 8.00

anarchy library

THU july 20, 2006
Riot This 12.30

· Son Of The Soil 11.30

· Butt Trumpet 10.30

· Marshan (Glasgow, Scotland) 9.30

· Pillow Fight 8.30

· Baxter House 7.30
The Anarchy Library Downey, CA

FRI july 21, 2006

Channel 3 w/ Dysfunctionals, Wasted Society & Slab
at Liams Pub 1087 S Mt Vernon, Colton, CA 92324

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· Rebel Society 12.30

· Murderland 11.30

· Secondshot 10.30

· Loco Frank 9.30

· The Stabouts

ANARCHY

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Battalion of Saints w/ Final Conflict,

Scared For Life & Deadlock at Doll Hut Anaheim, CA

SAT July22, 2006

Duane Peters Gunfight w/ Deadbolt, Smogtown
OCD & The Unwanted Guests
at The Vault 350 Long Beach, CA

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Shattered Faith w/ Drain Bramaged & FOOLIGAN
at The Brigg Huntington Beach, CA

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Stitches, ADHD, The Hitchhikers & Tippers Gore
at Showcase Theatre Corona, CA
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Dubweiser 12.30

· Fat 20 11.30

· The Haters 10.00

· The Beer Dogs 8.30v

at Anarchy Library Downey, CA

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VAN STONE
SAFARI SAM'S

SUN july 23, 2006

TTSOL w/ The Uprising, Unit F, Bad Reaction & Rabies
at Safari Sam's 5214 W. Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, CA

MON july 24, 2006
agent steel
safari sam's

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