Orange County punk rock from the early 1980′s! Fantastic! I saw these guys at some ballroom (?) in Anaheim (?) around October 1982. I forget who went with me. A lot of hot little punker chicks, or punker bitches, or whatever you want to call them. Some were bitches, some were just chicks. They played this song. It was out of this world!
Really weird thing about the hardcore punk scene at the time was that most of the punker chicks were bisexual, but most of the punk guys were straight and really hated male homosexuality. Those few males were were homosexually oriented were typically bisexual (see Darby Crash and Pat Smear of the Germs). There weren’t that many flat out lesbian punker chicks.
It worked out this way because of the highly aggro nature of the scene. When males are highly masculinized, they become fiercely heterosexual and hate male homosexuality. When females get pretty aggressive (frankly masculinized) there is a movement towards lesbianism or female bisexuality.
Why there was not a lot of overt lesbianism in the scene, I am not sure, but those aggro punker chicks really liked hard, tough, rough, badass hypermasculine punker guys. The whole scene just worshiped this kind of masculine and aggressive behavior. Lesbians hate nothing so much as aggressive or masculine males, which is odd since they act so masculine themselves. So much about homosexuality doesn’t seem to make much sense.
The lead singer’s name is Mike Ness. I think he was on heroin at some point, but I could be wrong.
