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The characteristically unconventional West Coast punk rock explosion, which occurred around the same time as that of New York, gets its own chronicle with Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen's WE GOT THE NEUTRON BOMB, a gritty oral history of the rise of California punk. Unsurprisingly, many of the same cast of characters who populate the annals of New York punk rock, like David Bowie and Iggy Pop, turn up here, but in California their music and style is transformed to something vastly different from the creative and sinewy rock mutations of late-1970s Gotham. Movers and shakers like DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who started LA's first glitter-rock disco, and producer and Svengali figure Kim Fowley, who was responsible for the formation of all-girl group the Runaways, share equal time with contemporary witnesses with names like Hellin Killer, Jane Drano, and Phil S. Teen. Together their stories form a composite and slightly terrifying picture of youth in chaos, with discrete, almost tribal cliques of hardcore punks, psychobillies, new-wavers, and various other sub-groups existing in a kind of societal netherworld somewhere between high school and the primitive futurism of the MAD MAX movies.
| Size | | Length: | 296 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
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