X and Black Flag performances from 1979 in LA (from the Decline of Western Civilization)

the beginning of The Decline of Western Civilization punk rock documentary 1981. X "Nausea", Black Flag "White Minority", and "Depression"

[@TruckerMark52]

True story: I was one of the 50 or so people to see X in Cleveland at Pirate's Cove (later Peabody's Down Under) way back when. I didn't even have to pay to get in as I was on the warm-up band's guest list. (I was the guy that drove an 18-wheel truck to the event, arriving too-late to see The Adults play). The Cleveland Band The Adults was the warm-up band. At the time I knew the original 3 members of the Adults, Crystal Gray, Rob Harpy, and Paul Michael. The 40 or so people who were left at the end of the set tried hard to get X to come back out and play an encore but we weren't successful. Later the band wrote a song about that night in Cleveland which was on their Big Black Sun album. C'mon, it was a great show even though there weren't too many people there.

[@Abandoned_Brane]

way before my time. we used to go to peabodys downunder to see the later punk shows in the late 80s. during that time the fantasy was also a hotspot.

[@paulmueller1520]

Yo can i interview you about the old Cleveland punk scene and stuff? I live in Cleveland too. I'll pay you.

[@paulmueller1520]

@@Abandoned_Brane Fantasy in Lakewood?

[@lorabetts8317]

Cool

[@thecitizenjoan]

very cool

[@mjwbulich]

The most shocking part of this video is the lack of traffic on the 101.

[@krisscanlon4051]

Hahaha

[@fastloudrules]

I fucking love that old VHS media entertainment intro bit with super hi tech effects straight from 82 or 83 I remember the audio more than anything. That's cool.

[@davidramone3687]

Blessed to be born in LA.

[@thecitizenjoan]

not fair 🙃

[@jasontimothywells9895]

Me too brother , I'm from Hermosa Beach, south bay family .

[@imtgof6126]

Fuck yeah... the Starwood.. Whiskey..Roxxys.. remember that shit like it was yesterday... Quaaludes White Wine and Weed..God how I fantasized about that she Devil Exene from X...and what a baby face Lee Ving from FEAR my most favorite show to see...or maybe I should say made a appearance... everything was kind of blurry and off center to say the least

[@tonylinn417]

@@imtgof6126 the Cathay!

[@Fanuc_Operator1990]

La and Cali fucking blows now.

[@lechanneldemysterieuxmante1807]

This and the Metal Years were such masterpieces. Love that Spheeris went in to Wayne’s World later. Darby is looking like a beast!

[@JohnSmith-ij6ms]

love alice keith and darbys different reaction to "and for other purposes"

[@Govtflu]

Fuck. I'm this old now

[@susankutner3217]

Hey thanks Penelope!!!

[@daniellamarquez9482]

When we watched this in 90 on a bootleg vhs we would wonder what happened to Eugene.

[@gregsan123]

Euge from the Coast first became known as Eugene, the hard core young punk in Penelope Spheeris' docufilm "The Decline of Western Civilization" 1981. Since then he has crossed the world as a traveling musician between the USA and his adopted home, Berlin

[@michaelporter383]

Exene!!!! One of the coolest human beings on the planet.

[@EarlSmith2469]

Lee Ving making fun of Kickboy face reading the disclaimer.. funny as shit!

[@Ori0n1975]

Attention! Shut up.

[@Ori0n1975]

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[@susankutner3217]

RIP DARBY CRASH

[@biomechanical22]

I`l give my kidney to see Darby@LIVE ;(

[@susankutner3217]

Club 88 - where I met my X

[@skinheadyouth66]

Awesome 😎😎😎😎

[@susankutner3217]

THIS IS WHY - NEVER WENT ON THE FLOOR LOL

[@susankutner3217]

first date with my "ex" took me to the Hong Kong Cafe - OMG

[@biomechanical22]

Susan , sounds like you are pioneer.

[@richardpearson8653]

Another little punk hang out in Downtown LA the Atomic Cafe

[@ericjacob5058]

I dunno man, but I know/remember this, the early days of the 'scene' in southern California were.......special. Violent and a place for misfits. As far as we were concerned we owned punk rock, We renamed it 'hardcore' and it was ours. The Brits?..what ever man. Thanks for the Pistols and Stiff little fingers now run along and play Pogo Boy. New York? The misfits were bad ass, some Reagan Youth but that was it...New York dolls? are you kidding?...dirty hippies. The Midwest? what scene?...Much has changed...Thankfully. I mean the best punk bands in the last 10 years or so are mostly from the midwest. But those early days...we were pissed, Reagan was in, and Electric Light Orchestra was NOT going to be the soundtrack to our youthful rebellion. I couldn't be more thankful to have been there, I still remember the day all that long surfer hair was shorn away-it was just not the political situation we railed against but the whole long hair, hippie, cocaine, Led Zeppelin ethos so prevalent then. Anyway, punk found me in '82 and I never really left it, such a large part of what made me who I am today. We've all had to get on with growing up and all and while we were doing so our culture got absorbed-think how normal it is for our kids to have piercings, tattoos and so on and so forth. The Ramones in the Rock hall of fame and Rolling stone calling them one of the top 5 most influential rock bands of all times..blah blah. Funny back then, Rolling stone wouldn't give our scene the time of day and no one in Whitesnake was naming the Ramones as an influence. The good thing is, it still lives on, back underground where punk belongs, It gets harder to find the real stuff and it gets less recognizable as the newest generation does their own thing with it. They give us old timers our due, they'll ask about the old-days-the way we got down back then they look at with a reverence I can understand a little..I mean piling 20 punks into the back of a pick up truck and heading down the 91 freeway to go to a show, or the very real threat of getting beat up by cops just for being one, shows at shit-holes...the punk kids today marvel at those days, but at the end of the night, your'e still just some old school geezer and it's their thing now...move out of the way. Well done kids-it shouldn't be any other way. Oh well.....Live fast, die sometime...first I gotta pay bills and the grand kids have soccer games today. Who said punk was dead? My mini van has a Battalion of Saints sticker in the back window...right next to a decal from the Brokedowns. No my friends....it lives.

[@tonylinn417]

Chuck Dukowsky as "Gary McDaniel" lol

[@ripsaa2693]

How the air in utopia is poisoned.. the final joke.... classic

[@susankutner3217]

Black Flag lived in church in HERMOSA BEACH-

[@jasontimothywells9895]

I was born at Hawthorne community hospital in 69 and grew up in the south bay, miss the old days , the south bay us fucked since 95 , but today it is fucked beyond repair .

[@KiraGR65]

I was unhappy to see that building was torn down a few week ago

[@jasontimothywells9895]

@@KiraGR65 when did they tear it down , I havmt been home in 5 years and have been told sgit is getting wiped out fast.

[@KiraGR65]

@@jasontimothywells9895 I saw it torn down three weeks ago and then saw the frame of a new building going up a couple days ago

[@jasontimothywells9895]

@@KiraGR65 that sucks , I miss my home. Is the Saint Francis still there

[@jmason61]

Oh my that German accent Lee Ving with the makeup.....

[@nylesfrench3568]

Dude talking about longhairs and getting a haircut, sounds lije the angry uptight generation who Got on the longhairs and so-called Hippies a generation previous.

[@chrisdavis8650]

Punk rock was rock n roll, that was against establishment, normalcy and the rich and elite and boujee, and like homeboy said, no rock stars.

[@Scarecrow-skate-racing-videos]

Darby enjoying X

[@Ori0n1975]

Somebody get him a beeahh.

[@biomechanical22]

Listen To The Germs! :)

[@susankutner3217]

YUP THE CHURCH IN HERMOSA BEACH-

[@susankutner3217]

LOL - this was my first "date"

[@jc.spacepig]

Why does this video make me feel like I'm on acid? 🤨

[@nakedwaterskier]

Cuz i was

[@susankutner3217]

This wAS MY first date with my ex - felt like Mary Tyler Moore - also on a work nite-

[@1thommyberlin]

What Penelope made was a point of view flick. This WASN'T about 'the scene in LA' or even 'the scene in Hollyweird', this was what Penelope wants to tell you about the scene... Notice: Where the fuck are the Weirdos? They were LA's first Punk Rock band, (and one of the best), buuut not even a mention or a flyer. Where are the Screamers? The Minutemen? Feh, this film did as much damage to the LA scene as it did favors to the few bands shown, some of whom weren't that important. Now there are moments I find very reminicent and beautiful of the punkrock/hardcore world I lived in - in the 1980's - (and I really miss my friends from back then) though the scene out here wasn't like the scene in LA, and moments that were damned disappointing. so it goes...

[@highplainsdrifter6255]

Yaaaaawwwnnnnn🥱 It's nice that you miss your friends

[@LauraRodriguez-yx6mx]

What We Do Is Secret - Darby Crash (1979)

[@doctorfeelfunny584]

And Pat Smear (although Crash did write a bunch of Germs songs on his own). The movie with the same name is only loosely based on Darby/Germs.

[@susankutner3217]

Woot Woot Alan Kutner - Gary Hirstus

[@susankutner3217]

Yup way go Brendan-

[@lorabetts8317]

Youth

[@thepointsnorth]

It’s crazy how much more palatable X are than every other band in this which are cool but prob unlistenable to anyone without an established niche interest. Wise choice to start with that song.

[@gasutrias9961]

😍

[@based_ukulele]

Why is everybody pretty?

[@manuelgallardo7694]

All the dirty punks died and Western keeps going hard with da hustle. Later mates 😎

[@AI-xe6bx]

Aaaah, yes. Punk...the monotonous Mariachi of the rock genre.

[@susankutner3217]

My ex worked on the live sound-

[@susankutner3217]

3 CHORD ROCK-

[@susankutner3217]

Except X - 3 chord rock

[@doctorfeelfunny584]

All the Black Flag songs featured use more than three chords. But you're right that X songs also use more than three chords.

[@nunyabizness6967]

Chavo, like myself, is a born-again Christian. Yahhhh. 🌊🏄 Romans 10:9 I highly recommend you read it. Just believe and you get the free gift. 👊 Deal of a lifetime.

[@mikejohnson6369]

Fuck off with that shit!

[@mikejohnson6369]

"born again"? what you didn't get it right the first time? fucking moron!

[@davidalpin7730]

Fuck that weak shit off

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

🙄

[@susankutner3217]

Brendan LOL

[@209Twinz209]

That's stupid... punk rock? It's just rock n roll.. ❤

[@Soundeagle3456]

brendan looks alot like bob geldof from boomtown rats.

[@javierlopez7527]

rich kid posers

[@drgonzo9148]

Yeah and you're a punk legend Javier

[@thec.e.oofbasedindustries8013]

​@@drgonzo9148 best comeback ever XD

[@Ghoulische]

it was full of people from many different backgrounds. suburb and poor kids, all getting together to get away and have fun. what’s so wrong with that?