All Wrong - February 21, 1986
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| I know the bigger scenes created outstanding art and collages for their show promotions. This one, as are many of these honestly, is a tad underwhelming compared to the quality of work from LA and SF. |
The Brigade aka Youth Brigade - February 21, 1987
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| Another great band at an out of town venue. I don't know about these odd names for these openers though - none come to mind. |
Dead Kennedys - February 21, 1986
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| I don't know who the other "bans" were for this one. This handout flyer also came in orange as well as a larger alternate version which included the addition of Mojo Nixon for the telephone poles seen below. |
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| Pretty sure the first punk record I ever heard (and then bought) was DK's Plastic Surgery Disasters. These guys and Jello were among the best and brightest defenders of free expression. I still listen to that one from time to time. |
Circle Jerks - February 17, 1985
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| This was my first foray into live hardcore at 15 years old. I realize that this timeline actually marks the ultimate decline of this phase of punk/hardcore, but for me, I was just getting started. |
7 Seconds - February 15, 1987
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| Dr. Know - what a great group - they played a lot in town and I've seen them a ton of times. 7 Seconds - also no slouches from Reno. I'm a sucker for their pop punk singalongs - whoah oh oh oh! This one was for personal distribution ... |
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| .. and for the telephone poles and large bulletin boards. |
Camper Van Beethoven - January 30, 1987
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| The first from the SF Bay Area. CVB was not my thing at all, but I do wonder if the skinheads enjoyed the bowling? |
Toy Dolls - January 23, 1986
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| This one was for telephone poles - the bottom one for hand outs. And this marks the first time I saw the Sea Hags who I remember being just terrific. I believe I still have their '86 demo around somewhere - great stuff. Here's a taste. |
Circle Jerks - January 23, 1986
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| If I had a favorite band in these early days it certainly was these guys. It was my first proper hardcore show I ever attended (on this tour) - and I think it was the last one too when they came through NYC almost 15 years ago. |
TSOL - January 18, 1986
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| First of many shows from down south. I like TSOL and all, but I was much more into 45 Grave and their cover of School's Out. This was the only version I knew of until stumbling across Alice Cooper's later. |
Toy Dolls - January 18, 1986
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| The Toy Dolls were superb - and what's more, my kids love them too. Spiders, elephants, what's not to love? |
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| It appears that Polkacide and Frightwig were replaced between printings. |
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| This was actually a mailer and was more of a "Heads up" than a promotional piece. |
Sentinel Beast - January 19, 1986
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| Sentinel Beast - what a great local band - and an an unusual one for having a female on lead vocals. They formed in the early 80's and like so many others lost their way. The girlfriend of one the guitarists used to cut my hair when Supercuts did it for $6. |
Lizzy Borden - January 11, 1988
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| Funny in retrospect that a band agreed to call themselves "Herbicide". Maybe they were good - I don't believe I attended this one to know. |
Post Mortem - January 11, 1987
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| I'll, as I have them, post flyers from around the country. This one occurred in Pittsburgh, PA. I had a lot of pen-pals with whom we traded flyer art - a common enough custom at the time. |
Social Distortion - January 10, 1987
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| Promotional material of this kind was distributed in a number of ways. The most visible were those stapled to telephone poles as this one was. These are usually 11" by 17". Depending on the intersections, many of these poles had years' worth of flyers stapled over one another and just riddled with staples. Others were hand distributed and yet others were sent as mailers (see below). |
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| This was the normal size for hand outs. |
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| This was the mailer, postcard sized version. |
Social Distortion - January 2, 1986
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| There are a handful of these where the same event has different styled flyers as in this example from 1986. |
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