Some stubborn errors on my part continued to exist in both versions, which I’ve cleaned up (along with some snarky comments), and again updated some of the band information.
#FCDN TORMENTOR UPDATE#
The version presented here is a revision of a revised version subsequently featured on my pal Peter Don’t Care’s Nihilism on the Prowl punk history website in the mid-’00s, partly to correct and update some of the band information (and included the Looters and Shameless Republic, at Shane White’s request), and partly to counteract an unauthorized version that somehow made its way onto the web and was being incorrectly attributed to someone else. With Todd’s urging and help, I pulled together the following article for Razorcake #3 in 2001. Flummoxed, I decided to bypass the academic circle jerk and use the time-honored fanzine tradition to piss in their pool.
Never mind that a number of bands that went on to be quite significant, in their estimation, were rooted in the scene’s larger history-it simply didn’t exist as far as they were concerned. punk’s story was bigger and more complex proved fruitless, at best resulting in a dismissal that amounted to anything outside of that small window of time as historically insignificant. Attempts at getting anyone within that vacuum to listen to-let alone acknowledge-the fact that East L.A. Things became more problematic when the academic world and a few eastside scholars, historians, and musicologists began creating and perpetuating a largely mythological narrative of the area’s punk history posited solely around an eight-month period in 1980, two to three bands, and the Vex-and they were even fucking up that legendary club’s history. This was usually remedied with a conversation and a homemade cassette “compilation” of tunes culled from personal copies of demos and such.
This article was born out of sheer frustration.ĭespite decades of witnessing and participating in what I thought was a thriving scene of bands, gigs, and general hellraising, I kept hearing from people no more than a few miles away that they had no idea an eastside punk scene existed. Teenage Alcoholics: Punk Rock in East Los Angeles by Jimmy Alvarado updated and revised 2017
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