Let's discuss the difference between punk rock and hate music.

[GReedDiamond]

70. We played with Black Flag, actually, we booked em...

... to play at a July 4 Smoke-in at the Federal Building in Westwood (Los Angeles), 1983.

Henry was the singer at the time, and they were doing these longish, seemingly hippie inspired punk jams instead of the 2 minute punk rock assaults.

Chuck, the BF bassist, also played that day in a band called Würm, whose drummer was staying, temporarily, at my art/recording studio in Pasadena.

I had to evict this drummer, whose moniker was Loud Lou - the hard way - when he tried to use squatter's tactics to take over my studio! He had, for example, applied with Edison for an electric power account, so he could have a bill w/his name and my address as the groundwork for false residency claims.

At that time, we were working with the California Marijuana Initiative (CMI), Jack Herer, the New York Yippies, and our own remnants of the L.A. Chapter of Rock Against Racism - which would later morph into Rock Against Reagan, by October 30, 1983 - when we did another rally at the Federal Bldg., on that occasion, with the Minutemen and an east coast RAR band called Stick Against Stone...but that's a whole nuther story.

Just wondering, what was your band called? Were/are you in L.A.? Are you still musically active/playing...?

Starting in 1978, I/We were - and still are, in many respects:

Scott Thomas Lowe & Atascadero>Benedict Arnold & The Traitors V1 (1979-1982)>Antinomians>The Hundredth Monkey versions 1 & 2>Pendu Femelle>Cecilia±>Slowdazzle>Picture This>Barf Bag>Wall of Noise>Marshall O Boy & The Well Hungarians>Benedict Arnold & The Traitors V2 (2000-2008)>Green Sparkle Frog (which is now)...that's 1978 - present.