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Fri, Oct 9, 2009 -- 10:00 AM
The History of Bay Area Punk
Punk rock may be most commonly associated with
cities like London and New York, but the Bay Area has
been a hotbed of punk ferment since the very beginning.
We thrash out the history of that local subculture with
the authors of "Gimme Something Better: The Profound,
Progressive and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay
Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day."
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Host: Scott Shafer
Guests:
- Henry Rosenthal, musician, filmmaker and president of the Complex Corporation, a film production studio located in San Francisco
- Jack Boulware, co-author of "Gimme Something Better" and co-founder and artistic director of Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival
- Jon Ginoli, founding member of Bay Area punk band Pansy Division and author of "Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division"
- Silke Tudor, co-author of "Gimme Something Better"
