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 |
Max Havoc - May 26, 1985
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| The world famous Roxy. Weird to think how influential Van Halen was on the rock scene in L.A. One often thinks of their particular style of rock as an 80's thing, but the members of all those 80s acts (Motley Crue, Ratt, etc) as kids watched Van Halen at the Roxy in the late 70s. By the summer of 1980, Van Halen had three monster hit albums already. By the time of this show, Van Halen released three more totaling six now. And since you were wondering who the hell Max Havoc were here's a short little bio: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/max-havoc-mn0001506034 |
Dead Kennedys - May 25, 1985
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| The modal male in my college experience couldn't be better described than "Terminal Preppie" - I mean to a T, every line an accurate summation: "John Belushi's my hero, I lampoon and I ape him" - these shits were a dime a dozen. I never found SNL funny and its so called "golden age' is a pretty sad contribution to American comedy. Belligerent boorish awfulness is a singularly unfunny approach and appeals to the worst of us. |
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| Above was the creative version and here the logo drop version. The Subhumans were pretty popular with me and my fellow punkers . Like in so many areas, the English punk bands really deserved my admiration: G.B.H., Sex Pistols, Toy Dolls, etc, etc. |
Complete Disorder - May 23, 198x
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| San Anselmo is a little town in Marin County - just north of San Francisco. I don't know any of these acts. Though "Red Asphalt"probably doesn't mean a thing to kids today, but then it referred to a public safety film from the 60s dealing with fatal car accidents that was screened to students in classrooms. It was very gory and gruesome, an attempt to scare kids straight about safe driving. I see it's been remade many times. |
D.O.A. - May 23, 1985
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| Punks then and today are largely left wing in their attitudes sans the statist parochialism. Toleration, anti racist attitudes permeated the culture up and down, so there would not have been any peace for a band called "Beat Nigs" under the obvious interpretation of the name. That said, the Beat Nigs were a San Fransisco experimental hardcore band of African Americans, riffing on the name Beatniks. Aware of the problematic nature, they made their name one word sometime after all this. |
TSOL - May 22, 1986
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| In my time, there were basically two promoters in town, Ground Chuck and Clear & Distinct Ideas. The latter was run by a relatively successful attorney, the former was literally one of the street kids. Their slots in society then couldn't have been more different. Chuck remains a local legend in Sacramento and is still very visible as a chalk artist, musician and promoter. I doubt' he'd recognize me today - it's been 30 years since I last seen him, but we used to be pals through all this. |
Likir - May 20, 198x
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| It's a funny practice of coming up with a band name by simply misspelling a term that in some way hints at some sense of your music. In this case, I'm not certain if the "likir" here substitutes for liquor or licker? Nor is there a band member named Likir in the same way that Bon Jovi, or Van Halen are. Whatever it was, I am certain that they were tickled by the ambiguity. I can't find much about this apparently short lived band other than they were big in Stockton, had a reunion gig in 2012, and the original lead has died of natural causes. Best guess is that this show was in 1987. |
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