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Forty Years of San Francisco Punk Rock:

KALW | By Colin Peden
Published June 15, 2015 at 5:37 PM PDT
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Crime played simple and loud, and dressed like cops
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The Tubes' "White Punks on Dope" is a song about rich San Francisco kids doing drugs to excess
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Avengers singer Penelope Houston was interviewed in Today's episode of "Crosscurrents"
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Poster for The Sleepers playing at Mabuhay Gardens in 1978
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The Dead Kennedys
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Flipper
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Crucifix
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Sick Pleasure
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The Dicks
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Wilma
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Lori Black, daughter of Shirley Temple Black, and bassist for Clown Alley. San Francisco, 1989.
Mark Deutrom
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Short Dogs Grow and their tour van
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Dwarves
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Steel Pole Bathtub

To supplement today's show about Punk Rock in San Francisco, I put together a playlist, one track per year, of SF punk bands of yesterday and today. This is by no means an exhaustive list, even though it has been rather exhausting one. What favorite band of yours did I miss? Let me know; I'd love to hear it!  
 

 

 

 

 
Colin Peden
Colin was a 2014-2015 Audio Academy intern and is currently training as an as-needed board operator / announcer. He is a producer for Philosophy Talk, #FSFSF, and My Mixtape here at KALW. When not making radio, Colin plays in bands, some of which are louder than others.
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