Comments on: The Beautiful and The Damned: Punk Photography by Ann Summa http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 09:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912384 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912384 Joe Strummer!? If there's one band I wish I had the chance to see live, it's The Clash. Got to see Mick Jones with Big Audio Dynamite. I prefer post-punk Clash, but for some reason, White Riot has been running through my head all day long. I listened to it this morning AND evening. Cool pics. Joe Strummer!? If there’s one band I wish I had the chance to see live, it’s The Clash. Got to see Mick Jones with Big Audio Dynamite.

I prefer post-punk Clash, but for some reason, White Riot has been running through my head all day long. I listened to it this morning AND evening.

Cool pics.

]]> By: jtalien http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912385 jtalien Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912385 Soooo cool! Especially the photos of Exene! She's beautiful and really cool to hang out with! Soooo cool! Especially the photos of Exene! She’s beautiful and really cool to hang out with!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912132 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912132 Want to win a signed copy of the"The Beautiful and the Damned: Punk Photographs by Ann Summa" + an original print from the book? Visit @ kcet departures http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/community/contest/contest-2---got-punk.html Tell us your story about Punk Rock or New Wave for a chance to win one of three signed editions of "The Beautiful and the Damned: Punk Photographs by Ann Summa". Ann Summa will personally select the three winning stories, one of which will receive her signed print in addition to the book. Want to win a signed copy of the”The Beautiful and the Damned: Punk Photographs by Ann Summa” + an original print from the book?

Visit @ kcet departures

http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/community/contest/contest-2—got-punk.html

Tell us your story about Punk Rock or New Wave for a chance to win one of three signed editions of “The Beautiful and the Damned: Punk Photographs by Ann Summa”.

Ann Summa will personally select the three winning stories, one of which will receive her signed print in addition to the book.

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912149 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912149 they weren't invited: cause they know their gonna crash it anyhow invite or no http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRp5L7DZFt4 they weren’t invited: cause they know their gonna crash it anyhow invite or no

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRp5L7DZFt4

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-932637 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-932637 your shots simply tell a story, gripping pictures. your shots simply tell a story, gripping pictures.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912670 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912670 Black Randy and the Metrosquad. BLACK RANDY AND THE METROSQUAD! Black Randy and the Metrosquad.
BLACK RANDY AND THE METROSQUAD!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-938530 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-938530 This website is everything I hate about art. Information is art and art is information. There is no information in this art. It is empty. It is callow. It just sits there drowned in the sweat of its subjects. The photographs themselves speak loudly and clearly. On the other hand, this webpage is a right-wing politician. It lies, deceives and does not tell the truth. Problem is to dilettantes, this page will become art because the artistry of the programming has failed. I guess that could be called art. I call it love. Failed love perhaps but a work of love. So I will give you that. This website is everything I hate about art. Information is art and art is information. There is no information in this art. It is empty. It is callow. It just sits there drowned in the sweat of its subjects. The photographs themselves speak loudly and clearly. On the other hand, this webpage is a right-wing politician. It lies, deceives and does not tell the truth. Problem is to dilettantes, this page will become art because the artistry of the programming has failed. I guess that could be called art. I call it love. Failed love perhaps but a work of love. So I will give you that.

]]> By: irksome http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912427 irksome Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912427 I fucked up my one chance to see The Clash, '79 at Bonds. And I'd sell my mother to have gone. The Only Band That Matter(ed). I fucked up my one chance to see The Clash, ’79 at Bonds.

And I’d sell my mother to have gone. The Only Band That Matter(ed).

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-915763 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-915763 You can buy signed copies of the book and Limited Editions with a print from your local bookstore here: www.arcanabooks.com/summa.htm You can buy signed copies of the book and Limited Editions with a print from your local bookstore here: http://www.arcanabooks.com/summa.htm

]]> By: sdmikev http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912437 sdmikev Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912437 Cool, thanks for clearing that up for me. FTW, I thought that the caption here on Boing Boing was wrong, till I went to the other site.. Love the Clash, always have. They are amazing. And the Godfather of Punk, Iggy. Cool, thanks for clearing that up for me. FTW, I thought that the caption here on Boing Boing was wrong, till I went to the other site..

Love the Clash, always have. They are amazing.
And the Godfather of Punk, Iggy.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912952 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912952 I saw nearly all the bands that played in Boston and most of those who played in NYC from 1978-1980 and never remember the Plasmatics being taken seriously by either fans or musicians. The only people that went to see them were dickheads from the suburbs who wanted to see tits and ass. I saw nearly all the bands that played in Boston and most of those who played in NYC from 1978-1980 and never remember the Plasmatics being taken seriously by either fans or musicians. The only people that went to see them were dickheads from the suburbs who wanted to see tits and ass.

]]> By: rks1157 http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912956 rks1157 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912956 Damnit! That's what I get for being a day late and a dollar short. I missed this. I would have walked the 40 miles for the chance to have something signed by Exene. Damnit! That’s what I get for being a day late and a dollar short. I missed this. I would have walked the 40 miles for the chance to have something signed by Exene.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912205 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912205 Love that last one of John and Exene. Love that last one of John and Exene.

]]> By: jfrancis http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912481 jfrancis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912481 I saw The Clash play William & Mary College one crisp autumn day in the early 80s. We drove up from Durham, NC just for the show. I saw The Clash play William & Mary College one crisp autumn day in the early 80s. We drove up from Durham, NC just for the show.

]]> By: Maddy http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-970854 Maddy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-970854 wow, somebody is bound for grad school ... wow, somebody is bound for grad school …

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912490 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912490 also last month in new york a show of mostly bob gruen's photos of max's kansas city. also last month in new york a show of mostly bob gruen’s photos of max’s kansas city.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-940657 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-940657 Great photos, great memories. Thanks. John Great photos, great memories. Thanks.

John

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912514 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912514 Did somebody mention Max's Kansas City? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuyQfxo0ocs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcIUsBf99E8 Wild! Did somebody mention Max’s Kansas City?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuyQfxo0ocs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcIUsBf99E8

Wild!

]]> By: GMo http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912264 GMo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912264 I was briefly in a band that rehearsed at the Masque. There were a bunch of tiny rehearsal rooms there, and the GoGos, the Weirdos, the Rubber City Rebels, the Motels and the FlyBoys all rehearsed in them, as well as The Red Army, which was who I was screaming with at the time. The Masque was in the basement of an art deco era office building at Hollywood Boulevard and Cherokee, and the entrance was in an alley off Cherokee. One night after a rehearsal the 3 guys in the band told me that we were locked in, that Brendan (Mullen, the operator of the Masque), had locked the door not realizing we were still there. It was about 11pm or so. I went and checked and the door was indeed locked. Then these three freaks began to try and back me into a corner, having apparently decided they wanted to do God only knows what to me. I got around them and began to walk feverishly through the shadowy, graffitti ridden, trashed-out warren of spaces that was the Masque, not knowing what the hell I was going to do, just trying to stay away from them. They were calmy stalking me as I wandered, and I was beginning to panic when I found myself all the way in a dark back corner I had not perused before, and there I saw another door. I tried it and it opened, and there before me was a staircase. I climbed it, with them behind me, and found myself in a gorgeous marble lobby right out of an old MGM movie. I headed for the majestic front doors, running, and they followed. Out front was a 10 foot hight chain link fence. I had not climbed a fence before but fear got me up and over it, as the 3 guys stood watching me, and then they said it was a joke, they had been kidding, the other door was open after all, locked from the inside but not the outside. By then I was running down the street to my car. That was the end of my 3 month career in punk rock in LA. And at the time, April of 1979, it was almost the end of the Masque and of the punk era in Southern California. I was briefly in a band that rehearsed at the Masque. There were a bunch of tiny rehearsal rooms there, and the GoGos, the Weirdos, the Rubber City Rebels, the Motels and the FlyBoys all rehearsed in them, as well as The Red Army, which was who I was screaming with at the time. The Masque was in the basement of an art deco era office building at Hollywood Boulevard and Cherokee, and the entrance was in an alley off Cherokee. One night after a rehearsal the 3 guys in the band told me that we were locked in, that Brendan (Mullen, the operator of the Masque), had locked the door not realizing we were still there. It was about 11pm or so. I went and checked and the door was indeed locked. Then these three freaks began to try and back me into a corner, having apparently decided they wanted to do God only knows what to me. I got around them and began to walk feverishly through the shadowy, graffitti ridden, trashed-out warren of spaces that was the Masque, not knowing what the hell I was going to do, just trying to stay away from them. They were calmy stalking me as I wandered, and I was beginning to panic when I found myself all the way in a dark back corner I had not perused before, and there I saw another door. I tried it and it opened, and there before me was a staircase. I climbed it, with them behind me, and found myself in a gorgeous marble lobby right out of an old MGM movie. I headed for the majestic front doors, running, and they followed. Out front was a 10 foot hight chain link fence. I had not climbed a fence before but fear got me up and over it, as the 3 guys stood watching me, and then they said it was a joke, they had been kidding, the other door was open after all, locked from the inside but not the outside. By then I was running down the street to my car. That was the end of my 3 month career in punk rock in LA. And at the time, April of 1979, it was almost the end of the Masque and of the punk era in Southern California.

]]> By: wylkyn http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912280 wylkyn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912280 I was lead singer and bass player for a band in LA in the early to late 80s. We had the honor to open for Billy Zoom once. Damned if I can remember the year. Or which club it was. We played Madame Wong's West, the Anticlub, places like that. God, we sucked. But it was fun. :D I was lead singer and bass player for a band in LA in the early to late 80s. We had the honor to open for Billy Zoom once. Damned if I can remember the year. Or which club it was. We played Madame Wong’s West, the Anticlub, places like that.

God, we sucked. But it was fun. :D

]]> By: Rezpect http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-946337 Rezpect Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946337 Good times. Good times.

]]> By: turn_self_off http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912561 turn_self_off Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912561 Where have all this energy gone? Where have all this energy gone?

]]> By: sdmikev http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912311 sdmikev Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912311 these photos are awesome. one thing, though. that third photo looks like paul simonon to me.. these photos are awesome.
one thing, though. that third photo looks like paul simonon to me..

]]> By: Antonio Lopez http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-920001 Antonio Lopez Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-920001 I submitted the following story to the contest: Punk rock pie fight One summer night in the early 80s Ivan, Tony and I got into a little unwanted trouble. We were bored so we decided to do a small political action. In our neighborhood there was some Nazi graffiti along the train tracks, and being the anti-racist peace punks that we were, we decided to blot it out. But this was also cholo territory and we didn’t want to get caught by the Aves tagging on their turf. So though the mission was simple, it was slightly dangerous. The job was rather unexciting and in the end spray painting over the swastikas was the most uneventful part of our evening. Afterward we decided to stop at 7-11 to get some whipped cream canisters to do some whip-its when we got home. We bought out the convenience store, porting over a dozen canisters to the car. As we pulled out an LAPD black and white tailed us and then signaled to pull over. We were sure we were busted for the graffiti. With gun pointed at us through the windshield, the first cop screamed at us to get out of the car, hands in the air. He slammed us facedown onto the hood while berating us for being punk fags. “What happened to real mean, you pussies,” he screamed. “Since when do guys pierce their ears?!” By now we were used to this routine. On the LAPD pecking order, they hated punks as much as blacks, Mexicans, and gays, so all us punks knew full well that we were in for rough night. Ivan previously had been beaten at the Hollywood police station, and I had been caught up in numerous police riots after shows that the press always attributed to punks. LAPD had gone to war against punk, so in those days it was normal to get harassed and beaten by them. After patting us down and searching the car, the second cop produced the whipped cream canisters. Since he was playing the good cop, I asked him why we had been pulled over—a dangerous question that could potentially set off the moody other who was still ranting about fags. The “good” cop said we had been driving without headlights (phew!), but now wanted to know what the whipped cream was for. I didn’t want to confess to getting a legal high, so I said the next thing that came to mind. I told him we were going to have a pie fight. It was potentially a hazardous thing to say. Either the bad cop would accuse us of being kinky queers, or beat us for being smart asses. But then the unexpected happened. I think what I said was absurd enough to defuse the cops’ aggression. The “good” one dropped his guard, and then uttered a curious but thoughtful, “Oh...” Something clicked—maybe his mind drifted to an innocent Keystone Cop pie fight or some other old movie running through his childhood memory. He smiled. The three of us, our cheeks still pressed against the car hood, glanced at each other and nervously smiled back. A few minutes later the cops cut us loose with no citation and just a small slap on the wrist (and few bruised ribs!). We hurried home, a little shaky, but the whip-its took care of that. And that was that: a typical punk rock night in LA. I submitted the following story to the contest:

Punk rock pie fight

One summer night in the early 80s Ivan, Tony and I got into a little unwanted trouble. We were bored so we decided to do a small political action. In our neighborhood there was some Nazi graffiti along the train tracks, and being the anti-racist peace punks that we were, we decided to blot it out. But this was also cholo territory and we didn’t want to get caught by the Aves tagging on their turf. So though the mission was simple, it was slightly dangerous. The job was rather unexciting and in the end spray painting over the swastikas was the most uneventful part of our evening. Afterward we decided to stop at 7-11 to get some whipped cream canisters to do some whip-its when we got home. We bought out the convenience store, porting over a dozen canisters to the car. As we pulled out an LAPD black and white tailed us and then signaled to pull over. We were sure we were busted for the graffiti. With gun pointed at us through the windshield, the first cop screamed at us to get out of the car, hands in the air. He slammed us facedown onto the hood while berating us for being punk fags. “What happened to real mean, you pussies,” he screamed. “Since when do guys pierce their ears?!” By now we were used to this routine. On the LAPD pecking order, they hated punks as much as blacks, Mexicans, and gays, so all us punks knew full well that we were in for rough night. Ivan previously had been beaten at the Hollywood police station, and I had been caught up in numerous police riots after shows that the press always attributed to punks. LAPD had gone to war against punk, so in those days it was normal to get harassed and beaten by them. After patting us down and searching the car, the second cop produced the whipped cream canisters. Since he was playing the good cop, I asked him why we had been pulled over—a dangerous question that could potentially set off the moody other who was still ranting about fags. The “good” cop said we had been driving without headlights (phew!), but now wanted to know what the whipped cream was for. I didn’t want to confess to getting a legal high, so I said the next thing that came to mind. I told him we were going to have a pie fight. It was potentially a hazardous thing to say. Either the bad cop would accuse us of being kinky queers, or beat us for being smart asses. But then the unexpected happened. I think what I said was absurd enough to defuse the cops’ aggression. The “good” one dropped his guard, and then uttered a curious but thoughtful, “Oh…” Something clicked—maybe his mind drifted to an innocent Keystone Cop pie fight or some other old movie running through his childhood memory. He smiled. The three of us, our cheeks still pressed against the car hood, glanced at each other and nervously smiled back. A few minutes later the cops cut us loose with no citation and just a small slap on the wrist (and few bruised ribs!). We hurried home, a little shaky, but the whip-its took care of that.

And that was that: a typical punk rock night in LA.

]]> By: Desiderium Machinae http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912326 Desiderium Machinae Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912326 I wish something about this had been posted a week ago, I'm in the LA area but won't have a chance to get out there tonight or tomorrow.:( I wish something about this had been posted a week ago, I’m in the LA area but won’t have a chance to get out there tonight or tomorrow.:(

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912329 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912329 thanks for kind words everyone. GMo, you should enter the KCET contest (wylkyn, too, if you have photos?). BTW, that third shot is definitely Joe Strummer; there is a series in the book and it is Joe (although it kind of does look like Paul). but do let me know if you find any other possible mistakes. thanks for kind words everyone. GMo, you should enter the KCET contest (wylkyn, too, if you have photos?). BTW, that third shot is definitely Joe Strummer; there is a series in the book and it is Joe (although it kind of does look like Paul). but do let me know if you find any other possible mistakes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-913613 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-913613 Larry Lee Lerma? It's Denyse Van Leuven (Johnny Hickman's ex) Is that u?!!! Larry Lee Lerma? It’s Denyse Van Leuven (Johnny Hickman’s ex) Is that u?!!!

]]> By: Tdawwg http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912087 Tdawwg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912087 <i>The Damned Beautiful</i> is more like it, rawwwrrr! Thanks for these! The Damned Beautiful is more like it, rawwwrrr! Thanks for these!

]]> By: bklynchris http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912353 bklynchris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912353 Wow, cool, amazing, gorgeous......... Wow, cool, amazing, gorgeous………

]]> By: Eric the half a bee http://boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html#comment-912355 Eric the half a bee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-912355 Fanfuckingtastic! Love, love love it! Fanfuckingtastic! Love, love love it!

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