WASTED YOUTH - PART 1Photos by Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz Words by Dave Markey
As a teenager, Dave Markey documented the LA punk scene surrounding SST Records through his zine, We Got Power , and Super-8 films like Desperate Teenage Lovedolls . These photos are from Dave’s and WGP co-editor Jordan Schwartz’s upcoming book, Party With Me Punker, edited by Thurston Moore.
“I was 16 when I first started taking my camera and riding the bus to LA to see punk shows. Up to that point, I’d been making movies with my friends in Santa Monica and listening to whatever was on AM radio.
The funny thing about time back then was that a single year was like a decade as far as the density of things happening. Arriving on the LA punk scene in 1980, I kept being told that I’d already missed it—I was two years too late. What was happening, though, was there was a younger generation moving in and thus the birth of hardcore.”
| Mood of Defiance at a venue called the Barn. They were very atypical for Southern California hardcore—almost psychedelic, but still really aggressive. |
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