We didn’t spring from the San Diego soil sui generis, and I’m finding plenty of resources online to gather the musical fringes we latched onto:
- Toby Lifehater’s forum for early-’80s punk survivors. (Dave Ellison tells me there’s at least one shout-out in there to the Rockin’ Dogs as a cornerstone of that era’s Poway underground.)
- A guide to old-school San Diego punk bands with some useful links (including a link to the Social Spit site, where Mirrors/Answers co-founder Dave Fleminger is credited as the band’s first guitarist, and one to an online history of the Injections, pre-Noise 292 band of drummer Joanne Norris, a k a Madame Gargoyle).
- The official Web site for the current incarnation of Carlsbad’s Spent Idol, former band of original Hair Theatre drummer Howard Palmer and an erstwhile rallying point for the Carlsbad crowd I was to meet through Hair Theatre.
- And a recent release by a very old collaboration: Twenty years later, Dave Fleminger, Paul Kaufman and Kristin Martin reformed their early-’80s joint, Lemons Are Yellow, and released an amazing CD. (Buy this disc! Os Mutantes have nothing on LAY’s “Afuegal Pitu”!)
Where else were we before we were what we were?