Michele On the Flipside
Seems like I can't turn around these days without finding another website dedicated to Flipside Magazine or LA punk in general. Here's the best one I've seen so far, the "official" Flipside memorial maintained by Michele, a former staff writer, who obviously created this site as a labor of love (along with some serious sweat!).
There's an awful lot of cool eye candy here: a database of the first 44 issues, an excellent gallery of fliers, and an extremely cool database of early live shows in the LA area.
The section that's most interesting for me is the photo retrospective because there are pictures here of people I haven't seen for almost 30 years: Al, X-8, and Pooch, to name but a few.
Speaking of Pooch, I stumbled across his band's website last night, and listened to a couple of their songs. Fun stuff. Al also dropped me a nice e-mail a few days ago.
Lest anyone should think I'm an old punk fart wallowing in nostalgia, let me point you to Alice Bag's blog where her most recent entry addresses her reasons for documenting the early days of LA's punk scene, which mirror mine to a great degree.
