10 years old? Trying to remember when yeah.. 10. My parents were getting divorced and my Dad was living in those apartments in HB on Edwards/Warner - Sea Breeze, the ones next to the mobile home/trailer park.
That was a time for a lot of firsts... kissing a 16 year old, smoking weed, getting plastered drunk or was that 9? I think 9, because that's when we still lived at the house. Shoplifting D&D stuff.. damn there's a nerd criminal for yeah. Spencer's Gifts when it was upstairs in the Westminster Mall and the food court was in the middle of the mall.
This album.. holy shit I had almost forgotten just how big it was for me, I more or less memorized it all back then, can barely remember AITUK these days. Punk was huge for me at 10 - the big early bands I learned were the Vandals, DK, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, & the Toy Dolls... then in psych it was subhumans, more of the LA punk sound, Subhumans, my album buying trips at Peer Records in the Valley - Moby Disc - Tower and OC - Music market, Peer Records, Tower, Vinyl Solution and LA - Bleeker Bob's, Vinyl Fetish, Record Surplus, and I'm not even counting Licorice Pizza or Sam Goody or the Wherehouse or Music Plus or the dozens of others that are gone and no longer here...
KROQ was instrumental in the LA punk exposure... My first Germs tape was Rock n Rule from the Tower records in El Toro.. or when it was. Near Rack n Ruin.. when that was there also. The early proto days of independently owned unique sub cultures stores that littered LA/OC back in the days..
Zac Attack
The Electric Chair
Gamma Gamma
Restyle Too
Ipso Facto (I think is still open in Fullerton)
Nana's
That one place that was on 2nd in Santa Monica in the 80's.
Retail Slut
and others...
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