Punk Rock Saved My Life: August 2007

...........PUNKSLAM
.............." the scene "

SEE My PUNK FILMS LOOK at COLUMN ON THE RIGHT>

I'M WARPED OUT so coming soon
Super Nova, The Mormons
Manic Hispanic, Adolescents, Dickies
and 2 seconds each of
Circle Jerks & Pennywise

I'm NOW working on
the gears in glendale
enjoy the following until soon...

• billy bones

in glendale

• atomic sherpas on fairfax

Atomic Sherpas at
3rd and Fairfax Farmers

• Derby Doll Nite @ Alex's

CONTROLLERS
The DETOURS
FRIDAY KNIGHTS

... weekend DERBY DOLLS rally at Alex's L.B. Market
with THE DETOURS and CONTROLLERS

and here is FRIDAY KNIGHTS to start off ...

The DETOURS

CONTROLLERS

• Dave's LIQUID KITTY
ANNUAL PUNK ROCK BBQ

SACCHARINE TRUST & MISSINGMEN

Dave's Annual Punk Rock BBQ at his Liquid Kitty
blues lounge in West Los Angeles California
Jack Brewer's saccharine trust and Mike Watt's
missingmen among others including Carlos Guitarlos

••• TheXamples •••
at rehab records W.L.A.

TheXamples
perform for
SPLIFF at REHAB Dj University
event in West Los Angeles August 3, 2007

• NEGATIVE INFLUENCE
SUZY's HERMOSA BEACH

NEGATIVE INFLUENCE @
SUZY's in HERMOSA BEACH
great moving local band
from the South Bay.

... more after

WEEKLY L. A.
pUNK gIGS

Tuesday August 21, 2007

∆ DARKWAVE, INDUSTIAL,
INDIE NIGHT
ANARCHY LIBRARY

Wednesday August 22, 2007

Wheels on Fire [listen]
Quan & the Chinese Take-Outs [listen]
the scene

Thursday August 23, 2007

Flexx Bronco [listen]
Civet [listen]
The Legendary Swagger [listen]
65 OverDrive [listen] The Deadly Syndrome [listen]
Le Switch [listen] - presented by An Aquarium Drunkard
Aushua [listen] - presented by Buzz Bands
Phoenix and the Turtle [listen] - presented by LA-Underground
with DJ's Jax (Rock Insider) & Joe
the scene

THE GUILTY HEARTS
THE JINXES
THEE CORMANS
THE BABES
ROVER'S PINKY
LAS PANTUFLAS
MR T's


Wind Swept Planes  (Seattle, WA)
Extraordinary Pigeons  (Seattle, WA)
Gator Surprise  (member of Haircut Mountain Transit)
Tik///Tik
Rale
the smell

Friday August 24, 2007

The Gears [listen]
The Billybones [listen]
The Scrid Hunters [listen]
Comprehend [listen]
THE SCENE

ATOMIC SHERPAS
@ farmers mkt
FAIRFAX & 3rd 7-9pm

Saturday August 25, 2007

John Doe,
The Lone
at Safari Sam's

Who: BACKBITER and
MOTORCYCLE BLACK MADONNAS
host a bunch of their
friends
What: The Blue Mask
Where: Mr. T�s Bowl

They Shoot Horses Don't They  (Vancouver, B.C.)
Abe Vigoda
60 Watt Kid  
The Deadly Finns
the smell

Sunday August 26, 2007

http://www.myspace.com/cityofprogress
www.myspace.com/stickyyeti
Gregory Miles Harris www.myspace.com/gregorymilesharris
MR T's

Monday August 27, 2007

The Rainman Suite [listen]
Bobot Adrenaline [listen]
Blockage [listen]
the scene

• EL DUCE

el duce the musician [ ? ]

the last story
on El duce and the first story,

and don't forget the video *

were just those stories
that were that story of El
and here we will have more...

EVENTUALLY I found out this guy
was part of this band the MENTORS
even though I knew his shtick
I had no idea what music he did.
AND I SAY DID,
because here at the Cathay de Grande*
I see my friend putting on a BLACK HOOD
and climbing behind a drumset frocked
with pictures of obese strippers.
and his cohorts also had back hoods,
one being introduced as SICKY WIFEBEATER

What music could come from this,
after laughing till I plotzed,
did I figure the whole thing out...

Some women loved Eldon,
some thought he was hilarious, AND
SOME WOMEN DESPISED EL DUCE.
I even read messages now after
his death with hateful remarks...

It is a calm night in the Cathay bar
and in comes El Duce being led
by some lady friend.
Girls ply themselves on Eldon.

YET, maybe just maybe some of
HIS LYRICS would create some concern
like "MY WOMAN FROM SODOM...",
or him going around saying loudly
[ oops- I'm sorry can't write that one...]
"..I'll meet you in an alley..."
just maybe some women may
express concern or displeasure.

So THIS was the MENTORS
loud playing comedy sicko hooded
masters of metal-punk.
El Duce 'singing' and playing drums
with ERIC sicky wifebeater
as his main fantastic guitarist

I taped them at the Cathay and Fenders
much later I talked with him at the
king king he wanted to do mondo tv
or something, then El Duce moved
out with the band to the desert,
were screwed my metalblade records,
and I did not see him ever again
EXCEPT in my fond memories .

• EL DUCE of The Mentors

say no more...

who
where
when


answers >
THE FAMOUS EL DUCE of the MENTORS
THE FAMOUS CATHAY de GRANDE
THE FAMOUS YEAR 1984
Eldon had the always habit of
jumping on stage during someone's set
to do his MEN ARE  SUPERIOR bit...
see  more click here
oh el duce was 'helping' TSOL.



el duce the musician [ ? ]

















el duce meets
angelyne in the
club lingere
parking lot
and the guy with
the camera is ME
photo by
DAVID HERMON


that's the club lingere on sunset across from sir..
someone bought it and messed it up, but in it's
day that club rocked, the dickies, black flag,
a couple of gigs I recorded on video back then
that being the 1980's punk scene
(click this paragraph)

a punk band from san pedro ...get it ?
old skool punk documentary

WE JAM ECONO...
MINUTEMEN
ANNOUNCEMENT !

• Sounds of Asteroth @

Hammer Zine Art

Sound of Asteroth played the Zine Art show
at the UCLA Hammer Museum in
Westwood, Ca. on July 4, 2007.

• MADE IN CHINA

not the PRC

The Cathay de Grande

Yes MADE in CHINA
not the People's Republic
but tHE wORLD fAMOUS
CATHAY de GRANDE *
a block off Hollywood & Vine
@ Selma and Argyle
It looks the same really the
block of buildings from the 1920's
still exist offices and such and the
Cathay is there SORT OF it is the
uPSide DoWn CLUB religious in nature
I REMEMBER THOUGH...

remembering reasons why
yet no specific validation
I mean it wasn't in Zagat
there was food [???] served Thai I hear
WE PARTIED IN THE KITCHEN not ate

along with the Olympic and then Paladium
there was this club to go to after gigs
that was way cool WALK IN to the left the BAR
to the right past the cigarette machine
and down the stairs
the bands
WATCH OUT THEY'RE STEEP...
Every band in L.A. hung out here
from Phranc to Flea
AND WE ARE ALL FRIENDS HERE

and we parked across the street parking lot
but not the one on the same block because
that's where all the brawls happened.
sometimes I parked on Argyle right in
front watching someone
shoot up to the outside light
of one of the offices down from the club
the CLUB, 'a real goat farm ' *
said one of my longtime friends JEFF SAID.

THE REAL EXCITEMENT WAS DOWNSTAIRS
there was a small bar down there too and many
red restaurant booths and metal chairs,
the chairs would sometimes be flung about
' hey that was my nose man '
PARACHUTE ceilings crappy sound
undefinable heat sweat
and lots of ANGST

Texacala Jones Top Jimmy Mentors
and thousands of punk bands
played this fantastically raw venue
very hardcore every punk for themselves
that is the anthem isn't it.
One day I went to Cathay
and ended up in dISNeYlAND...

CATHAY de GRANDE *
click here to see VideoStream

NEXT: O.C. LIFE FOR ME
video louis 2005 http://www.punkslam.rocks.it/

Originally posted by Video Louis Elovitz
at Wednesday, August 17, 2005

more...

• Punk Rock Saved My Life

THE SCENE :

YES ! as D. Boone said all those years ago,
PUNK ROCK SAVED MY LIFE.
I am one to VALIDATE those thoughts.
PUNK ROCK SAVED WHAT?
My Life.
OUR LIVES.
Remember,
Dennis Boone
said this,
and it may seem weird, that way after his
passing, anyone would KNOW THIS
and think it means something -
YOU SAY he died, what was he saved from?
EXACTLY.
Oh, I do not mean Punk Rock caused his death,
NO- PUNK ROCK GAVE HIM, us, LIFE !!
His SPIRIT lives on
to EMBRACE this attitude, lifestyle, music-

"the scene" *
as Gerber [Vagina Dentatta] once said, ...

"THE SCENE" ....
as I REMEMBER IT...
it was the STARDUST BALLROOM right on Sunset ,
now a Home Depot, BACK THEN and that be way
back to a time not forgotten the 80's
probably the Circle Jerks in '84 backstage
and I was taping some punk body art and
atmosphere when Gerber took the mike
and spoke of her life, living with Chuck Bisquits,
living on the streets, all so wonderful
this was, she said,
because it was THE SCENE...

This was just a further explanation
of the breath of life flurishing
through many of us, for various reasons,
feeling the FREEDOM among us.
OH YES, punk does mean KILL ONE'S SELF
-what does that mean ?
MAYBE just that.
THAT IS death to the old AND
breathe life to what's new:
again PUNK ROCK SAVED MY LIFE.
Oh there are no or many transformations
of the mind -
ENTROPY constant chaos not change.
None of us want to change anything,
EXCEPT for ourselves, not
to change anything else WE LIVE HERE .
"THE SCENE"

HI, I'm ME
see much more clic∆here

more more!

• RAW POWER HARDCORE

• Sounds of Asteroth • "X" ART

• BROKEN BOTTLES Anaheim

• Punks Not Dead the Movie PREMIERE

• Mike WATT & theMISSINGMEN

• MY WAR Chuck Dukowski Sextet

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art, punk and pickles

PUNKSLAM
video louis

INDEX... ............VIDEOS..... ......INNERVIEWS.......LINKS

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[click on the 'jumping dog'...]

PUNK CathaydeGrande....Carlos......Car Show.....HorseHeads..

Al's Bar BYE .. PUNK L.A... Pickles..L.A.altScene1

Circle Jerks ... Exploited ... SubHumans....L.A.altScene2

d.boon ..d.d.vanian

art, punk and pickles

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• KILL (GIZaccident) DETAIL(s)

Its late so I am sure its too late to call,
BUT, Gizz is in pain but ok,
he has basically been beaten up badly
and has fractured head ribs
and legs, but no breaks...
He was hit by a mid day drunk driver flying
down a residential area, Its a trip cause his
head flew through the rear
window of a his truck and the guy hit him
so hard that the rear bumper of the car actually popped the tires...
and broke the rear axle.
The rack on the truck even flew off of it and landed a few lanes over.

Now the CRAZY part, Gizz was right behind a car that had a young Man
and woman and a baby in a car seat in the back, gizz's truck was hit so
hard that he smashed that car in front of him, BUT imagine if Gizz wasn't
there, That baby may have been injured...

ON TOP OF THIS ALL, The guy hit and ran, gizz had no idea what happened
and about ten minutes after the fact, a car pulled up and it was a good samaritan
that actually chased the car down and got the info.. The guy only drove a few blocks
and ran from the car. The cops found tons of evidence that the guy was drinking...

Great Friday the 13th for Gizz...

Thanks for your concern on behalf of Gizz...
Joey

KILL DETAIL ( before the accident) with
E N T R O P Y in NoHo (next to Val Surf)

Those Jughead/Lazlo
guys come to Studio Suite
down by the old hospital
used in SCRUBS off Riverside,
along with Dave and his
ENTROPY for B.M.C.

opps my mistake kill detail is not a south bay band,
maybe entropy is sort of, well venice, but both from L.A.

• The DETOURS
(Weekend FunPunk)
The Detours with GORDON COX without Rikk Agnew (!?)
@ Blue Cafe Huntington Beach, Ca. April 6, 2007

Shaun on Drums in this picture
the only time we see him at the
Blue Cafe's dark stage and here
is Gordon Cox' The DETOURS...
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band play.

• RICHIE HASS BENEFIT
Freehead, Vinny Golia,
The BELLRAYS

This last weekend we
got together at Safari
Sams in Hollywood to
help our friend who has
a medical problem...

there we plenty of bands
playing for him. Richie
played twice, Freehead
on bass and vibraphone
with Saccharine Trust.

These bands played:

Potion Box
Present Tense
Freda Rente Band
The Adz
Backbiter
The Amadans

and then I got there and FILMED:

Freehead
Vinny Golia
The BellRays
Mike Watt's Missingmen
Marc Mylar Mob
Puttanesca
Saccharine Trust
nOT iN tHE hOUSE
The Atomic SherpasFatso Jetson

video
FREEHEAD

VINNY GOLIA CREW

jazz it up.
see the video

VINNY

The
BELLRAYS
for
Richie Hass

EVERYONE PLEASE READ

VIDEO LOUIS ELOVITZ
have been promoting the punk scene since 1984
All PERFORMANCE VIDEO you see
past and present are by Video Louis
'INNERVIEWS' are by Kiki ( Xposer World Wide )

...pumping the scene since 1980...

THE SCENE
VIDE LOUIS ELOVITZ
1984©2007

HEY ! see these
HARDCORE items
AGAIN...

BRENT LYLES MEMORIAL D.I & AGENT ORANGE
JFA now & IN THE ALLEY 1985
BLUNT ol' punk from GB now in LB
DOS full set & CONGRESS OF in PEEDRO
DICKIES- Kiki ( Xposer World Wide )
interviews STAN & MONSTER

HIRAX

DERBY DOLLS
KIKI punk journalist TALKS
LEE VING and
LOCAL HATE
GUILTY HEARTS & INAZUMA
The GEARS
T.S.O.L. FAREWELL for now...

MY FAVORITE (vid not by me)

"politically correct"
ROCK BAND see their vid
∆clic∆ STUCK MOJO
open season

Top Jimmy and
Carlos Guitarlos
Story by
CANDACE DANDREA

e MAIL PUNK ?'s

TV indicates free
PUNK VIDEOSTREAMS

Giuseppe & RAW POWER 20 YEARS AGO

PALMDALE"S
VAN STONE
@ SAFARI SAM'S
thanks to Buzzkiller
David Sheridan

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ca. pUNK
hANGOUT

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reality is chaos -in punk that's ENTROPY
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STALAG 13

info about this og 1984 gig
NARDCORE click here
look down for this pic...

...see
KIKI MORETTI
( Xposer World Wide )
interview EXPLOITED
I filmed this in 1985
click on WATTIE...*

Exploited

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to help give MY VIDEOTAPINGS
to "Punks NOT Dead" - click below...