WE GOT POWER! - Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California

"Featuring essays by David Markey, Jordan Schwartz, Jennifer Schwartz, Henry Rollins, Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena, Louiche Mayorga, Cameron Jamie, Pat Fear, Steve Humann, Tony Adolescent, Jack Brewer, Jula Bell, Mike Watt, Sean Wheeler, Joe Carducci, Daniel _¢‚Ǩ_ìShredder_¢‚Ǩ¬ù Weizmann, and Janet Housden. Presenting nearly 400 first-generation L.A. hardcore punk photographs Including complete color reprints of We Got Power fanzine 1981_¢‚Ǩ‚Äú1983 and beyond.\r\n\r\nAs teenagers in 1981, David Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded We Got Power, a fanzine dedicated to the first-generation hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text and cameras captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Red Cross/Redd Kross, Suicidal Tendencies, the Descendents, White Flag, the Last, the Gun Club, Saccharine Trust and many others at the height of their precocious punk powers.\r\n\r\nIn the process, the duo_¢‚Ǩ‚Ѣs amazing photographs also captured the dilapidated suburbs, abandoned storefronts, and dereliction of the early Reagan era_¢‚Ǩ‚Äùa rubble-strewn social apocalypse that demanded a youth uprising! Never before seen except in crude fanzine form, these detailed and richly narrative photos are now collected to present an intimate portrayal of a uniquely fertile creative moment." - Bazillion Points.