Punk Turns 30

Tweet What does Stevie Nicks have to do with punk rock? Well, nothing, really. But she's totally gonna help me raise money to put together my coffee table book of images from my traveling photo exhibit, Unguarded Moments: Backstage and Beyond . Stevie and the rest of the Rumours line up of Fleetwood Mac (I was rather fond of the original Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer line-up myself), aside from being world renown hitmakers, are among the musicians I have photographed in my lifetime and the photos of the first Buckingham-Nicks performances with Fleetwood Mac are an intrinsic part of my life in the Central Coast beach suburb that informed my perspective. You will see these photos of Fleetwood Mac in my book's intro. So, I have decided to offer select images from the 1976 line-up of Fleetwood Mac, featuring the earliest appearances of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. They'll make a great Christmas Gift for the classic rock fan on your gift list. These photos were taken ...

The Cramps, Whisky A Go Go, 1978 The Cramps are one of the highlights of the Target Video body of work - their performance at the Napa State Hospital is infamous and fortunately, because of Target, the (moving) pictures can prove it. I've often said it (and the Target principals think I exaggerate BUT, I think its true): San Francisco's Target Video was the punk rock version of Andy Warhol's Factory. Their solo gallery exhibit opens in Los Angeles tomorrow, November 17. The text below is directly from the press release for the over-arching project Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration of art/culture centers celebrating Art in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 (or as I call it from Post War to the beginning of Post Punk): targetvideo77: Cal Punk & Performance As a participant in Pacific Standard Time, Annie Wharton Los Angeles is pleased to present “Cal Punk & Performance,” the first solo gallery exhibition in Los Angeles by targetvideo77. In 1977, artist Joe Rees started...

Pleasant Gehman and Kid Congo Powers , above, in the days before they were punk icons. Well - they were icons in our scene... each of them drafted by our mutual friend, Jeffrey Lee Pierce to make music (with him and on their own), and as they saying goes... the rest is history. Kid and Jeffrey were in the earliest version of Jeffrey's vision of The Gun Club and before he could play on a Gun Club record, Kid was drafted into The Cramps where he transformed from Brian into the Kid we know today. That primitive music has never left Kid and on his recent records, it has come back to the forefront... and for more info on that...I lift directly from the Kid Congo and Pink Monkey Birds own notice for their upcoming tour.... Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds hit round 2 of another European tour in support of their critically acclaimed LP "Gorilla Rose" on IN THE RED Records. The much acclaimed 2009 LP "Dracula Boots" was heralded by many as a "return ...