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I'm working on a new book, maybe two books, about thirty years of punk rock women. I'm welcoming further suggestions and contact info for anyone. Here's my wish-list so far, the ones with an asterisk being ones who've been agreeable to an interview so far and the double asterisks being the completed interviews. About half of the others I have contact info for, but have not gotten in touch yet or not heard back from them.

70’s

(Accelerators - Kathy Freeman) (**Adverts – Gaye Advert) (Alley Cats – Dianne Chai) (**Avengers – Penelope Houston) (**Bags – Alice Bag) (*Brat – Teresa Covarrubias) (Controllers - Mad Dog Karla) (*Cyclones - Pleasant Gehman) (*Fatal Microbes - Honey Bane) (*Germs – Lorna Doom) (Go-Go’s/Eyes – Charlotte Caffey) (Gun Club – Pat Morrison) (Joan Jett) (**Kleenex/Lilliput – Marlene Marder) (Lydia Lunch) (Mo-dettes - Kate Korris/Jane Crockford) (*Mutants – Sue White, Sally Webster) (*Nastyfacts – Kali Boyce) (Neo Boys) (**Nuns – Jennifer Miro) (*Penetration – Pauline Murray) (*Raincoats - Ana DaSilva/Gina Birch) (**Rezillos – Faye Fife) (*Slits - Palmolive) (UXA – De De Troit) (Violators – Kathy Valentine) (X - Exene Cervenka) (**X Ray Spex – Poly Styrene)

80’s

(*the Bangs – Annette Zilinskas) (**Black Flag - Kira Roessler) (**Conflict- Karen Allman) (Stimulators - Denise Mercedes) (**Mydolls- Trish Herrera) (*Sado Nation – Mish Bondage) (*Scrawl – Sue Harshe) (Even Worse –Rebecca Korbet-Wootton) (Legal Weapon – Kat Arthur) (**Fastbacks – Kim Warnick/Lulu Gargiulo) (*45 Grave – Dinah Cancer) (**Fire Party – Nicky Thomas/Amy Pickering) (Nuclear Crayons – Lara Lynch) (Beastie Boys – Kate Schellenbach) (**Red Cross/Kross – Janet Housden) (Rubella Ballet - Zillah Minx) (Babes in Toyland - Lori Barbero) (*Raszebrae - Debbie Patino) (Sin 34 - Julie Landfeld)

90’s

(**Red Aunts - Kerry) (**Snap-Her - Andi Beltramo.r{}*Lisa Pifer) (Bellrays – Lisa Kekaula) (*Huggy Bear - Jo Johnson) (5678's) (Skinned Teen - Layla) (Ain't) (Seven Year Bitch - Valerie Agnew) (Gaia - Gana) (Mudwimmin - Lisa Faye Beatty) (*Superchunk – Laura Ballance) (*Bangs - Maggie Vail) (Texas Terri)

00’s

(**Dents – Jennifer D’Angora/Michelle Paulhus) (**Bobbyteens – Tina Lucchesi) (**River City Tanlines - Alicja Trout) (The Orphans) (The Soviettes - Maren/Annie/Susie) (**The Epoxies – Roxy Epoxy) (*Mika Miko) (Gito Gito Hustler) (Mind of Asian) (*Bitch Alert - Heinie) (**Go-Sheilas - Sheila)

this is the second edition of "Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1992", my most recent labour of love and at times bane of my existence. Go to www.zuopress.com for the full skinny on it.

people keep telling me nice things about it - here are a few of 'em:

"Getting lost in George Hurchalla’s terrific Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1992, I can almost smell the spilt Fosters beer and rancid bathrooms of the many punk palaces across America that kept it lively back then, from the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC and Club 57 in New York City, to the Gilman Center in Berkeley and the legendary Jockey Club in Newport, Kentucky. Chapter by chapter, Hurchalla captures each major cities’ contribution, with the formation and rise of seminal clubs, bands and indie record labels, all told through the anecdotes of the musicians, club promoters, zine publishers and scenesters themselves. Peppered with original show flyers and rare photographs, this anthropological perfect storm might leave latter-day punks thirsty at the trough, as baby, those were truly the golden years. “Honey – what’ll it be tonight? The Necros, the Dickies, Bad Brains, or Die Kreuzen?” - John James in his Positively Yeah Yeah Yeah column in the Cincinnati CityBeat, Anchorage Press, and Chattanooga Pulse

"...what makes Hurchalla's book so important is that it captures the spirit of the movement, its idealistic sense of purpose that, despite punk's many shortcomings, has managed to survive and continues to influence a wide swath of people...Coupled with the equally excellent Fucked Up and Photocopied, Going Underground now stands as the definitive statement on the history of America's punk/hardcore scene. George, I tip my worn-out beret to you." - Jimmy Alvarado, Razorcake

"Hurchalla gets it right for using Idle Timer Dixon Colbourn's blazingly punk rock, Cash-esque photo of Randy "Biscuit" Turner, late of the Big Boys and this earth, as his cover shot. This second edition is dedicated to both of those Austin punk icons – now presumably gigging across the great wide open in a winged Ford Econoline with Will Shatter, Joe Strummer, et al – and includes an additional chapter on the Austin/Texas scene that's invaluable, both as historical record (the perpetually inclusive Big Boys contretemps with homophobic DCenesters Bad Brains is thick with menace) and as decidedly un-rose-tinted backward glance (MRR No. 6 sported the arresting cover header "The Dicks: A Commie Faggot Band!??!"). Trying to encapsulate the entirety of American punk rock, even with the 1992 cutoff in which Hurchalla wisely caps this exhaustive look-back, makes Hercules' Augean stable-boy routine seem positively fun, fun, fun. Nevertheless, Hurchalla's efforts are impressive, given the fragmented and regional nature of American hardcore in the Eighties, a time well before the Web made for a truly Punk Planet. Mimicking an Eighties-era tour, it meanders all over the place without ever fully wearing out its welcome. To paraphrase the Butthole Surfers: Regret is not having been there the first time round." - Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

"Exactly what it says it is - an exhaustive look at the American punk scene from the So-Cal days to NoMeansNo. Drawn in large part from zines of the times, every page brings another memory. Naked Raygun on one, countered by Black Flag or the Butthole Surfers on the next. This isn't some prettied-up, big publisher look at ancient history, but rather like the music it documents, it's a raw and passionate take on a revolution of sorts. This music never died, but it did get co-opted, yet Hurchalla steers clear of all that, and just records what matters. Good stuff! - James Mann, The Big Takeover

"Going Underground is the way books about punk should be written - from a personal and local perspective... This book's informal and very personal tone is a refreshing and much-needed counterpoint to the string of pretentious and overbearing retrospectives on American punk that have been written in recent years... Another thing that sets Going Underground apart from other books is that Hurchalla makes no effort to retrofit the scene with some kind of seriousness or importance. Yeah, sure, the fashions and sounds of punk have gone mainstream. But Hurchalla correctly argues that it was the utter lack of a sense of importance that made punk rock so fun. An excellent stab at a complicated and interesting subject." - Jeff Fox, Barracuda

And even some not so nice things:

"OK, I was trying to play it straight and be kind. But this George fellow has worn my ass out, along with the dumb fuck who wrote American Hardcore and all the ass clowns who helped him make it into a movie. All of these are missing the mark in the worst way: via self-absorbed interpretation with no personal observance. As much as I hate to say it, Henry Rollins, that ass-kissing, name-dropping self-promoter who has never missed a chance to tell us HIS opinion of anything, has done the best job of documenting what was really going on during a snatch of the era in his book Get In The Van." -Steve Miller, YourFlesh

(Steve was in a fine early 80's Detroit hardcore band called The Fix. I too enjoyed the personal observances of Rollins' book, such as the one where Rollins was spit on at a St Louis show, and wiped the spit off with the guy's shirt. Tough guy move. A St Louis friend of mine who was at the show clarified Henry's account: The actual offender, Lee, had kept silent when Henry demanded to know who did it, so his huge 6'5" friend Eric took credit. Rollins told Eric to meet him in the parking lot afterward. Eric showed up. Henry never did. Not quite as interesting a story as "what was really going on", though.)

Who I'd like to meet:
"oblige me and I'll scorn your every action, offend me and you'll see just how much trouble I can be, my darling" -The Mekons

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Jimmy Tumors





Oct 9 2008 5:22 AM

a taste of what yer missin' up here this weekend, holmes....



The Rogue Nations





Aug 8 2008 11:53 PM

Hey George!

Thanks for the add! Looking forward to the new book!!
Jimmy Tumors





May 28 2008 5:24 AM

dunno if you know about it, but there's a museum dealie up in claremont celebrating the women of east l.a. punk past that's causing quite the stir and controversy, including a write-up in the l.a. times last weekend.
nice to know 20+ years hasn't abated any of the silliness, no?
Eric de Jesus is Spoken Word





Mar 24 2008 3:01 PM

hi.
my book is out now on the Sloow Ley Lines imprint of belgium.
Mei Kashihara would enjoy it.

Eric de Jesus
Cult Of The Moon
Sloow Ley Lines - B

Drawings, photo’s and lunar stories by Eric de Jesus. Half black & white, half full-color. Let your moustache grow easy. Bound together by the hand.

http://www. sloowtapes. blogspot. com/
Doctor Gonzo





Feb 20 2008 12:52 AM

Ha! That's so weird, at least she's not a scientologist.
Doctor Gonzo





Feb 19 2008 7:12 PM

Thanks cuz! How's the new book? I hope you get Polly Styrene, I'm really curious to see if she looks like a middle aged brittish housewife now.
stabb ... john stabb.





Feb 18 2008 5:57 AM

George, the next book idea looks like a winner! And when you talk to Annette Z. (Blood on the Saddle), don't forget to ask her about when she roadied for G.I. (she asked & how could we resist having an x-Bangle as one of our road crew-ha!) in '85. She's a sweetheart!
Debbie P.





Dec 29 2007 11:58 PM

Happy New Year - May the New Year bring more rockin' music, love & prosperity!
geoff cordner





Dec 15 2007 4:45 AM

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

ho ho ho

Hope all is swell.
Debbie P.





Nov 14 2007 5:15 AM

Hi - Hope you're doing well - I'll send interview soon. xo D
Flag of Democracy





Nov 14 2007 2:17 AM

Raul's Club





Nov 5 2007 3:26 PM

Hey, George. Please let all of your friends know about the importance of contesting the proposed noise ordinance in austin that is endangering the entire music scene in Austin!! This is not to be taken lightly--there are BILLIONS of dollars at stake, and real estate developerswho plan to repopulate downtown with yuppies and condos are extremely powerful!!If it passes, it would be akin to outlawing Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Broadway in Manhattan, gambling in Vegas or country music in Nashville. Don't let this happen, folks!! Please attend the Austin Music Commision’s Town Hall Meeting on Monday, Nov. 5 (at 7pm at Momo’s, which is just above Katz’s Deli at 618 W. 6th Street (512-479-8848). If at all possible, bring others with you
If you absolutely cannot attend, you can write to the members of the Austin Music Commission, and to the Mayor and the City Council expressing your concerns:

Austin Music Commission:
Brad Stein, Chair: bradstein@hotmail.com
Jill George, Secretary: jgeorge@utsystem.edu
Mary Ermel: mermel@austin.rr.com
Teresa Ferguson: tferguson@slackdavis.com
Randy Houston: rhouston@foholaw.com
Don Pitts: don.pitts@gibson.com
Nikki Rowling: nikki@nikkirowling.com
Luis Francisco Zapata: elgatopardo@hotmail.com

Email the Mayor Will Wynn and all City Council members at this link: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/groupemail.htm
Raul's Club





Sep 27 2007 8:13 PM

R.I.P. Mikey Offender!
From Pat Doyle:

Mikey "Offender" Donaldson passed away in his sleep on September 22 in
Barcelona Spain where he had recently relocated from Amsterdam. The
cause is unknown at the moment. He was 46. He is survived by his
brother Joe Donaldson, sister Marie Donaldson Ward, and sister Sumiko Hakari
, all of Killeen, Texas.

Mikey was the bass player for Austin punk band the Offenders from
1978-86. He also recorded bass tracks on MDC's groundbreaker "Millions of
Dead Cops" and DRI's "Dealing With It." Mikey also performed
regularly with MDC in the early 1980s. He moved to San Francisco in 1986 and went on to play and record with Gary Floyd (Dicks) and Lynn Perko
(Imperial Teen) in Sister Double Happiness. After leaving the music scene
for ten years or so, Mikey returned to Austin and reunited with the
original Offenders line-up for a gig at Emos in March 2002. In 2003 MDC
recruited Mikey and their original line-up, recorded a new album, and have
been touring all over the world ever since.

Mikey is universally regarded as one of the most innovative and
inimitable masters of the bass guitar. He played his Rickenbacker like it
was a out-sized rhythm guitar. Taking cues from Jack Bruce and Lemmy,
Mikey pioneered an agressive speed-picking style and liberal employment
of bass chords that few have been able to emulate in the past 20
years. He will be sorely missed, certainly in Austin and his hometown of
Killeen, but also across the globe. A memorial celebration in Austin is
pending and the date will be announced soon.
AGEN 53 (später AGEN)





Aug 19 2007 11:45 AM

awsome book, read it the other month, brought back a lot of good memories of the old times. although the scenes in the us and germany were so different - we had a lot in common. cheers todde
feel free to check out what we've done back then:
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Jimmy Tumors





Jul 26 2007 6:00 AM

haven't heard from you in ages, ese. hope them oaxaqueños are treatin' you well....
Flag of Democracy





May 16 2007 2:12 PM


F.O.D. hanging with mind of asian after they wiped the floor of a west philly basement with us...cant wait for the new book!!
Eric de Jesus is Spoken Word





May 16 2007 12:59 PM

LVHC
Eric de Jesus is Spoken Word





Mar 18 2007 10:55 PM

this was going on too
Mark Guerra Photography





Mar 8 2007 3:18 AM

I have so many more (images) most are b&w Negs . . . I need to dig all that shit up and spend a few days organizing ... easier said than done
Raul's Club





Feb 28 2007 6:45 PM

and i love this one, too. mark sent it to me, but i don't think its one of his...

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Raul's Club





Feb 28 2007 6:41 PM

did you ever see Tx terri's italian vogue layout?

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Raul's Club





Feb 22 2007 10:01 PM

I have to say this. I got really excited this week, because American Hardcore came out, and I'd been waiting for it. I got even MORE excited because the trailer I watched on youtube about it featured 2 austin punk bands in it, The Dicks, and the Next, one opening the clip, the other closing it. So, I wrote a comment to American Hardcore's myspace page, saying i noticed, and sure hoped they got some decent coverage in the film, blah blah blah. Not ten minutes go by, and the clip is EDITD, and the 2 songs taken out. Come to find out neither band knew anything about it at all! Wow. whodathunk? corruption in the music biz? I can only hope they used the music in the actual film, and my poor, longsuffering punk friends can sue Sony's ass off and finally get enough money to live off of!!!
Rude Bastard





Feb 16 2007 9:42 PM

Best book I read last year, hands down.
lenny





Feb 14 2007 2:53 AM

Thank You George for capturing a great moment, ok 13 years, in time. Those years, those gigs, those people did it because it was in their blood, it was our life! You wrote this book from the pit where we all met! Thanks Again!
Lenny
Honey Bane





Feb 11 2007 8:49 PM

Hi there, good to meet you. Have a brilliant week ahead. Love Honey Bane x
Jimmy Tumors





Dec 25 2006 5:16 AM

a fine and happy holidaze to you, good sir....
Tim NYC





Nov 23 2006 2:16 PM

Hey George...Thank you for the birthday wishes...Loving your book!
JohnClaude





Sep 27 2006 3:13 AM

George,
I've been asked to be Biscuit in the Tribute Band...and do some Emceeing on Sunday Oct 8th @ Emo's in Austin for Biscuit-Fest.
Hope you can make it!
Checkered Demon
Doctor Gonzo





Sep 19 2006 7:22 PM

in kokomo's defense, have you heard the Vandals' cover? it's pretty funny.
Arto





Sep 15 2006 3:17 PM

Hi George!

Thanks for adding me. Let's keep in contact!
Zydepunks





Aug 30 2006 6:57 PM

what does it all mean
darron





Aug 30 2006 12:49 PM

George,

Happy birthday and have a terrific trip!
Marie





Aug 24 2006 4:29 PM

George, myspace has alerted me to the fact that you are soon to celebrate another birthday... so... CONGRADULATIONS!

Hope this is the best year yet, for both you and the book!
Gary Floyd





Aug 24 2006 2:54 PM

Hello from the Floyd world---singing them blues and watching the sky...waiting for Krishna......
Michele | www.audiodrome.it





Aug 21 2006 10:54 PM

Thanx for the add, your book is great!
A real must have for every hardcore punk lover and fan.
All the best and keep in touch.
cheers from Italy
M
Jimmy Tumors