Northrup - June 18, 1988
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| Ah, my own personal contribution to Sacramento's rock scene. I was the original drummer for Mickey Finn, this was our first (and my only) show. We played a 45 minute set in 30 and then just jammed for the remaining 15. Bad drummer! It was a great time though. |
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| Mickey Finn |
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| Yours truly: "Pete" Russo on Drums - I had quite shoddy equipment and little money to upgrade it all. |
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| Doug Fritz on Bass |
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| Ron McBay on Guitar |
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| Pete Minns on Vocals |
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| You would also think that my involvement with the punk marketing I could have had more input into the design of this terrible flyer, but my head was very much elsewhere then. I don't even think we stayed for Hanzoff and Northrup. |
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - June 15, 1985
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| So Yngwie Malmsteen is the artist - the album name is "Rising Force" - not the band. Kind of an interesting way of doing it. The idea of concept albums weren't new by this point, but the reverse emphasis on the album for touring promotion is novel. I'm not a guitar guy at all and was not a fan in 1985. However, today I can appreciate this. Not my favorite by any stretch, but certainly not awful as I had imagined then. Billy Sheehan is a "bass playing virtuoso" so this show was for the musicians. |
Poison Idea - June 9, 1984
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| One of the more visually explicit and offensive flyers in the collection. I don't recall much about Poison Idea other than they were solid. Seattle's The Accused, as noted elsewhere here, are a personal favorite. This show was in Portland, OR - Poison Idea's home turf. |
Circle Jerks - June 7, 1986
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| Another show from Phoenix - they had a hot little scene there in AZ - pun intended. |
7 Seconds - June 6, 1987
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| Sentinel Beast supporting 7 Seconds is as close to a metal/punk fellowship as you're going to get in Sacramento! |
D.R.I. - June 5, 198x
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| I can't pin down the year on this one, but I did attend. I had a friend whose folks had a house in Nevada City and we went up there occasionally. I remember it being so crowded you could hardly move. |
Siouxie & the Banshees - June 2, 1986
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| This one got by me from last week! Siouxie and the Banshees were terrific - all the punk girls I know adored her as well as Nina Hagen. Stylistically they both inspired a lot of the fashion among the young women in the scene. I also liked the proto-Goth Love & Rockets even though neither of these acts are punk - early alternative I guess you'd call them. Love & Rockets were named after a popular comic book - not the other way around as I had imagined. The comic was another pioneer in "alternative" entertainment. |
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| Siouxsie - methinks Nikki Sixx may have been a fan. |
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| The lovely Nina Hagen |
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