dallas punk video

woke up this morning to a veritable cornucopia of dallas punk vid from back in the day, which the i-94 barman found on garagepunk.com forums. thanks, mate!

first, here's a little sociology from the local tv news ca. '79, featuring bobby soxx (r.i.p.) and stickmen with rayguns:



here's bobby singing "scavenger of death" with the teenage queers at zero's in fort worth in 1980:



and here's "christian rat attack" from the same gig. wonder if the beefheart vocal influence was intentional:



here's really red from houston playing "suburban disease" in 1982. interesting how much the music changed in just a coupla yrs. also that there was once a good band from houston.



the telefones from dallas (seen here performing their hit, "the ballad of jerry godzilla," at the hot klub ca. '81) were my future ex-wife's fave band. they were awesome live; kinda had more of a '66 garage thang goin' on. plus jerry dirkx was the best gtrist in any of these bands besides the nervebreakers' mike haskins. and their sax player will clay (r.i.p.), who was already gone by this time, usedta work at the same rekkid store as i did in dallas.



finally, here's some unsynced vid of the skuds playing at dj's in dallas in october '79. these guys "meant it" more than most: