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Lurch and I smoked pot with Darryl and Earl Hudson of Bad Brains behind the Santa Monica Civic when they played with Bad Religion in 1982. We were lighting up bowls behind the arena and the guys just walked up and smoked out with us. I loved Bad Brains from the first time I sawContinue reading “Pot Smoking Punkers”

On October 31st 1980 at 6 a.m. my asshole father wakes me up saying “your friend Tony Henderson is on the phone going on and on about watching someone record an album today, Get up and answer the phone”! I jump up and grab the phone and Tony tells me “Brett Gerwitz and I were talkingContinue reading “15 Minutes Of Fame”

I used to go to Godzilla’s a lot in 1982 and then one night while slamming in the big room I got into a pretty big fight… So..I’m at Godzilla’s, in the big room (not sure who was playing) and here’s what I remember… I was 15 years old and drunk which was pretty normalContinue reading “Fight At Godzilla’s”

The first time I actually met Alex was in front of The Whiskey-a-Go Go in the winter of 1981. I was hanging out with Lurch at the corner of N.Clark St. and Sunset Blvd when about 6 guys in long white dress shirts and bandannas pulled down over their eyes began to walk down theContinue reading “The First Time I Met Alex”

It was a cool windy afternoon in the fall of Oct.1979 that I went to my friends house. My friend John was just hanging around listening to some records when I walked in. I was completely unaware of what was going to happen that day. This day, this one day would lead me down aContinue reading “There are two paths you can go by”