I’ve gone and uploaded medium resolution versions of all of the punk flyers that I have on file from when I curated History of San Pedro Punk. I was doing some archiving, making sure that all of my stuff was in one place, and I figured it was pretty easy to just upload them all to Flickr, as well. Each one is titled and dated as best as is possible. There’s a pretty good chronology of 25 years of punk activity there. There are flyers designed by Raymond Pettibon, Scott Aicher, Aaron White, Chet Zar, Craig Ibarra, Victor Gastelum, Brad Frost and a host of unknowns.
Here’s the link to the whole set. Enjoy.
Every one of these flyers is either from a show that took place in San Pedro, or a show involving a Pedro based band outside of Pedro. The earliest one is probably this Reactionaries, Suburban Lawns and Alley Cats flyer, and the newest one might be this Toys That Kill flyer from a show at The Smell (warning – Flash site). There are also some other fun things in there, like a scan of a News-Pilot article on the 1984 San Pedro High School controversy surrounding Pat Wilder’s mohawk (Page 1, Page 2), and George Hurley’s fIREHOSE baseball card/tour schedule (Side 1, Side 2).
I was lucky that when I was getting ready for the exhibition I had a really great intern who did a decent job scanning most of these files, as well as meticulously color matching original flyers to the duplicates that we used in the exhibition. So Celina, big thanks for the scanning and all the copying. And big thanks to Craig Ibarra for being the source of so many of the flyers – he designed a ton of the flyers in this set.
I may have a backup of many of the flyers not uploaded, so if I turn that up, I’ll make a date with the scanner and bake up some more.
Oh, and for those in LA Saturday night, there’s a show at LA Conga in Pedro – it never stops, here punk is alive and well. Underground Railroad to Candyland, 400 Blows, Saccharine Trust, Dios Malos and Mike Watt + The Missingmen. 465 West 7th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731 – 18 and up $5.00. It’s also the release party for The Rise and The Fall Issue 11 (put out by the untiring Craig Ibarra).
at top: possibly my favourite flyer from the whole set. A Scott Aicher drawn flyer for DOS, one of my favourite bands of all time, a bass duo of just Minuteman Mike Watt and Kira Roessler of Black Flag. I just love the big beaming smiles and the corny drawings as letters. Scott has a real eye for attention to detail that comes through in every flyer he’s drawn over the years.
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Amazing! Now I finally get to see what I missed out on in 2005. I’ve gone mentioned it on my music blog.
Was that very first Black Flag/Minutemen show at the Teen Post represented in there somewhere? I didn’t see it on your Flickr site.
I don’t think that one’s there, coz I was kinda looking for it myself. BTW, it was a Black Flag/Reactionaries show IIRC.
I’ve never seen the Teen Post flyer. Is it a Pettibon flyer?
Phill: yes yes you are right – it was the Reactionaries.
Marshall: I know nothing about the flyer – but really, I can’t imagine Back Flag doing a gig early on without promoting it to the hilt. That self-promotion stuff was their strong suit.
I think I’ve seen the flyer – but it’s like a vague memory. It’s now driving me crazy. I know there is a flyer for that show, but an original or copy of it hasn’t passed through my hands.