Complete Disorder - May 23, 198x

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.

Likir - May 20, 198x

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.

The Cherry Bombz - April 17, 198?

A high profile band backed this female fronted hard rock group from the UK.  Watching a video of theirs reminds me what punk was created to oppose musically. Then there's Channel 3 who arguably bridged punk and glam. This was a hybrid that did not take off.

Outpatients - April 12, 198?

This regional flyer is an absolute mess - covers four states, five separate shows. This should have been posted in March, but found it in the April pile. Several great acts playing, with only Gang Green still around. My favorite band name here is Pleased Youth - of course they are! Incidentally, "The Anthrax" was a real place - THE place for punk acts in Connecticut in the day.

Cro-Mags - March 31, 198?

NY/HC was harder to access in those days and I didn't have any pen-pals in NYC so didn't get much art from there.  But what a scene! So many great acts: Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Reagan Youth, Murphy's Law and of course the Anthrax derivative: Stormtroopers of Death.