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pushpitprincess · 6 months

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REAL BAY SHIT

9/11 anniversary celebration featuring 5 dollar eighths clown boxing and 9 hardcore bands

#bay area punk #bay area hardcore #face2face

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 2 months

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SF PUNK -- POST PUNK -- SLUDGE -- NOISE -- HEAVY PUNK -- "FLIPPER STILL RULES, OKAY?"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a mega photo-dump of SF punk rock/ noise/ sludge/ post-punk band, FLIPPER, playing a gig somewhere in the Bay Area, CA (more than likely), c. 1981. 📸: "Toyranch" (via Flickr).

THE QUIETUS: "Going back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, I’ve long held the thought that rather than “just” being a punk band, FLIPPER offered up a strange new strain of punk psychedelia. You emanated it despite not being traditionally psychedelic."

STEVE DEPACE (drummer): "I agree with you. I would say that there’s elements of various different things and styles within FLIPPER, which ultimately leads to that. It’s been said that we’re part art performance, part art rock, noise rock, art noise, punk rock, grunge – all of those things. But we just kind of are what we are. It may change a bit here and there with different people in the band and different incarnations, but there’s a basic element that remains the same. We tend to stand out, you know?"I

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/toyranch/2902037246 (all found on Flickr & Flickriver).

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z34l0t · 1 year

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The artist who calls himself Winston Smith is best known for his work with The Dead Kennedys, whose iconic logo and album art he created. Prior to that, he made gig flyers that advertised fake bands playing non-existent venues, which he posted around the San Francisco Bay Area.

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#winston smith #dead kennedys #jello biafra #bay area punk #punk rock #gig flyer

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esotericcarnage · 11 months

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When's My Right Time Kent - Sarchasm off their self-titled album

Buy their final album!

#tunes #was lucky enough to get to see their last shows #sarchasm #bay area punk #pop punk #queer punk #music

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ztremx · 9 months

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SPAZZ - CRUSH KILL DESTROY LP

whos ready to kick some christian keister?

LETS FUCKING GO

#POWER VIOLENCE #grindcore #bay area punk

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catluvr666 · 1 year

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#photography #bay area punk #bay area #punk show #punk #alternative #diy punk #portrait photography #portrait #music photography

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rolandneptune · 5 months

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Bat Noise [L]

Whine [R]

2023, Disposable Camera

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shodwithbootsofether · 1 year

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#Fang #punk #bay area punk #Spotify

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fastlane-to-nowhere · 5 months

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SPY

#SPY #hardcore punk #raw punk #bay area #bay area hardcore #world peace #rings of saturn #peter pawlak #BBB Records

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nugothrhythms · 6 months

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Psychic Eye just released a pre-order of their upcoming forty-song compilation album The Ancient Wall, featuring goth, shoegaze, synthwave, and other adjacent genres. Several of the bands featured have been mentioned on this page before. The proceeds will be split between helping the children of Gaza and an Oakland-based organization to feed the local homeless that is organized by Middle Eastern Children's Alliance.

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pushpitprincess · 6 months

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#bay area hardcore #bay area punk #Spotify

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 6 months

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STILL THE ONLY FIGURE IN SF/'80s HARDCORE TO HAVE SERVED IN THE 'NAM.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted shots of Vietnam War vet, co-founder, and six-string noise-monger of SF hardcore/noise/ punk rock band FLIPPER, playing a gig somewhere in the Bay Area, c. 1981. 📸: "Toyranch." Sax player unknown.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "Looking back, Falconi says there's plenty of factors in his life that influenced his work with FLIPPER, but there’s one that stands out above all: the Vietnam War.

“If I hadn’t gone to Vietnam, I probably wouldn’t have started FLIPPER,” Falconi says.

Falconi spent two years in Vietnam, from '67 to '69, and he came home with a new determination to live by his own rules. The army showed him how to focus on his goals and work to reach them.

After Falconi got out of the Army, he moved to San Francisco. It was 1970, and for the next decade, Falconi would dedicate his life to art -- mostly sculpture. He earned an MFA in art from UC Berkeley and almost completed a second master's degree in music from Mills College, where he experimented with early synthesizers and other noise-making instruments.

But it was John Gullak, guitarist for THE MUTANTS, who introduced Falconi to the electric guitar. The two were hanging out at Joe "Target" Rees's studios in San Francisco, where THE MUTANTS were being filmed, and Gullak let Falconi play around with his guitar and amp.

"I never had that much loudness,” Falconi said. “So a week later, I had a guitar and amplifier, and I was starting a band.""

-- KQED, "Meet FLIPPER's Ted Falconi, Vietnam Vet and Punk Rock Legend," by Kevin L. Jones, published November 10, 2017

Sources: Lifted these from my Facebook page (in turn lifted from Hiveminer), & www.kqed.org/arts/13814497/ted-falconi-vietnam-vet.