let's go to a show!

 

yes, i was at this show.  my second punk rock gig.  i was 15.  i found this flyer this afternoon looking up the band, rebel truth.  they were from sac.  the first time i saw them perform was onstage in the multipurpose room of my jr. high school.  the singer/guitarist [can't remember his name] had leopard-print dyed hair.  i was sold!  on his look & the band's sound.  a few months later, my friend, tim [chim-chim], introduced me to punk rock proper in the summer of 1982 changing my life in every way.  i started going to shows.  i was - am - a naive dumb-dumb but was also a quick learn.  i remember tim chatting with bob mould after husker du's set.  i didn't know who he - or the band, husker du - was until a little later when someone played for me their first LP, land speed record.  what put me in mind of the band rebel truth was an older punk working at Trader Joe's i saw this afternoon.  he reminded me a lot of the look of that singer/guitarist.  the punk at TJ's was ol' skool cool.  who brought me right back to my own hardcore days.  as thomas wolfe said, you can't go home again.  but you can, at least, visit the neighborhood!