Take A Walk On the Flipside
I was digging around in the basement the other day, and found my copy of the first issue of Flipside Magazine, dating back to 1977 and the heady days of the birth of L.A. punk.
I have a personal history with Flipside and it's founders, so I decided to scan it and write out the saga of it's earliest days for the edification of my readers. I've tried to retell the tale with as much accuracy as I could muster, but anything that I couldn't remember or verify with X-8, I just made up. Deal.
So return with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the Weirdos, the Germs, and the Runaways played the Whisky A Go-Go, and 5 corndogs from Whittier, California launched a fanzine for the ages.