Mark Vallen's Art For A Change website has a great collection of xeroxed punk flyers from LA circa 1977. The flyer on the left was designed by my old mate, X-8, who got his start doing the promo for our band Low Budget back in high school, then went on to become a founding father of the LA punk 'zine, Flipside.

That's Trudy, a Masque groupie, holding a copy of Flipside on the flyer. I think I made out with her in the alley in front of the club one night, but that may be false memories created by sniffing glue and drinking a few too many bottles of Annie Green Springs Strawberry Hill wine.

By the way, the other band on that Vietnamesebabycafe bill was an Alice-Cooperish outfit called Jekyll and Hyde fronted by another school chum named, Paul Amiel Stewart, who until recently was one-half of a Seattle art-rock (mostly sans-rock) duo called Fishmagic. I haven't heard from him for a year or more, so I googled on him today to see if I could discover his current whereabouts; I found him teaching English on the faculty of a Turkish University.

Ain't search engines wonderful?