“The Runaways were rebels, all of us were. And a lot of people looked up to us. It helped a lot of kids who had very mediocre, uneventful, unhappy lives. It gave them something to hold on to.”
— Cherie Currie
“At least fifty punks were living at the Canterbury. You’d walk into the courtyard and there’d be a dozen different punk songs all playing at the same time. It was an incredible environment.”
— Belinda Carlisle
“The objective was to create something for our own personal satisfaction, because everything in our youthful and limited opinion sucked, and we knew better.”
— John Doe
“The Masque was like Heaven and Hell all rolled into one. It was a bomb shelter, a basement. It was so amazing, such a dive ... but it was our dive.”
— Hellin Killer
“California was wide-open sex—no condoms, no birth control, no morality, no guilt.”
— Kim Fowley
Year
2001
Pages
320
Type
Nonfiction
Tags
Praise
“The Runaways were rebels, all of us were. And a lot of people looked up to us. It helped a lot of kids who had very mediocre, uneventful, unhappy lives. It gave them something to hold on to.”
— Cherie Currie
“At least fifty punks were living at the Canterbury. You’d walk into the courtyard and there’d be a dozen different punk songs all playing at the same time. It was an incredible environment.”
— Belinda Carlisle
“The objective was to create something for our own personal satisfaction, because everything in our youthful and limited opinion sucked, and we knew better.”
— John Doe
“The Masque was like Heaven and Hell all rolled into one. It was a bomb shelter, a basement. It was so amazing, such a dive ... but it was our dive.”
— Hellin Killer
“California was wide-open sex—no condoms, no birth control, no morality, no guilt.”
— Kim Fowley
Description
What to read after We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk.
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