Research Catalog

Title

We got the neutron bomb : the untold story of L.A. Punk / Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen.

Author

Spitz, Marc.

Publication

New York : Three Rivers Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mullen, Brendan.

Description

xvii, 296 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subjects

• Punk culture
• Punk rock musicians > Interviews
• Punk rock music > California > Los Angeles > History and criticism

Contents

• Introduction: Let's Get Rid of New York -- Prologue: The Boy Looked at Jimbo -- Ch. 1. "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man": Rodney's English Disco and the Glitter Rock Deca-Dance (1971-75) -- Ch. 2. Trouble at the Riot House: L. A. Glitter's Downward Spiral (1974-75) -- Ch. 3. Back Door Man and the New Order (1974-75) -- Ch. 4. "Young Americans" (1975-76) -- Ch. 5. Queens of Noise: The Rise of the Runaways (1975-76) -- Ch. 6. Radio Free Hollywood (1976-77) -- Ch. 7. Forming: The Screameers, the Weirdos, the Zeros, and the Germs Kick-Start the Scene (1976-77) -- Ch. 8. So This Is War, Eh? Slash Magazine, Flipside, Lobotomy, and the L.A. Punk Zines (1977) -- Ch. 9. "Punish or Be Damned": The Rise of the Screamers (1977) -- Ch. 10. Getting Devo-ed (1977) -- Ch. 11. "Landlord, Landlord, Landlord, Clean Up the Mess": The Birth of X (1977) -- Ch. 12. Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie: A Few Words About Black Randy (1977-78) --
• Ch. 13. Welcome to Liverpool '77: Punksploitation, the Indie Boom and the Incredible Singing Dickies (1977) -- Ch. 14. The Masque and the Plunger Pit (1977) -- Ch. 15. "I'm Darby Crash": In and Out of Control (1977-78) -- Ch. 16. Talkin' 'Bout the Hillside Strangler (1978) -- Ch. 17. Misfits and Cheerleaders: The Go-Go's Go Punk (1978) -- Ch. 18. "Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?": The Sex Pistols in California (1978) -- Ch. 19. Trashin' and Bashin' (1978) -- Ch. 20. The Canterbury Tales (1978-79) -- Ch. 21. Mutations: Power Pop, New Wave, Art Punk, Psychobilly, and the Seeds of Hardcore Split the Scene (1979) -- Ch. 22. Rockabilly Cats at Disgraceland (1979) -- Ch. 23. "I Totally Hate Cops to the Max" (1979) -- Ch. 24. This Is Hardcore (1979) -- Ch. 25. Strung Out (1979) -- Ch. 26. GI (Germs Incognito) (1979) -- Ch. 27. Population One: The Fall of the Screamers (1979) --
• Ch. 28. Vicious Circles and Face Plants: Orange County Ultraviolence and the Skate Punk Boom (1979-80) -- Ch. 29. "We Got the Beat": The Go-Go's Hit the U.K. and Return as Pop Stars (1980) -- Ch. 30. Los Angeles (1980) -- Ch. 31. "Preaching the Blues": The Roots Revival (1980) -- Ch. 32. The Vex: Los Lobos and the East L. A. Scene (1980) -- Ch. 33. Fire of Love (1980) -- Ch. 34. "Amoeba": The Adolescents, Social Distortion, Agent Orange - Fullerton's Pop Hardcore (1980) -- Ch. 35. The Decline of Western Civilization (1980) -- Ch. 36. "I Want Out Now" (1980) -- Ch. 37. "This Town Is Our Town": X Sells Out the Greek, the Go-Go's Hit Number One, and MTV (1981) -- Epilogue: No Apologies (1981-2001).

ISBN

0609807749 (pbk.)

LCCN

2001049137

OCLC

• ocm47623976
• SCSB-9093367

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries