Among these bands were the Flesh Eaters, the Weirdos, the Germs, the Controllers, the Deadbeats, the Skulls, the Angry Samoans, Agent Orange, the Dils, Black Randy and the Metrosquad, Catholic Discipline, the Go-Go’s, the Alley Cats, Kommunity FK, the Screamers, the Dickies, X, the Zeros, the Bags, the Plugz, the Consumers, and their successors, 45 Grave. Starting in 1976, following recent releases of recordings by punk bands such as the Ramones, a number of punk bands formed in the Los Angeles and Orange County area. ( further reading…) 7" vinyl Black Flag Bob Glassley Darby Crash George Walker Jerry Koskie Ken "Rabbit" Bragger Los Angeles Punk Rock The Cheifs Soon they would come to be known as Cheifs. The two became friends, and after sticking around and playing music for a few days, Glassley was invited to join the group and play bass alongside Walker on guitar with singer Jerry Koskie and drummer Kenneth “Rabit” Bragger. punk scene at a time when there were few out gay or black punk musicians. Walker was a gay black man in the late ’70s L.A. “I owned a cheap bass back in Portland, so I felt qualified.” “I said I did, although that was a serious stretch,” Glassley says. One day, Glassley was listening to a group making noise in a nearby room when a young man with bright blue hair - George Walker - poked his head around the doorway and asked if anyone played bass. The space was a former MGM studio and office building on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western, housing everything from a porno studio and a church led by a gay preacher to rehearsal spaces where musicians lived, practiced and spent most of their time hanging out. All of the freeway exits were closed, so we just kept driving around the city, looking for an off-ramp.”Įventually they made it into the city and crashed at the Holly-West in Hollywood. “When we got back on the road we found out it was the day they were taping the Hollywood Christmas parade. “We set out for L.A., and the motor blew somewhere outside of Stockton,” Glassley says. They were on a mission that day, to make some alliances in the Los Angeles music scene, and to line up some shows for a touring caravan of Portland bands. At the time, Glassley sang for a young punk band from Portland called the Rubbers.
It was a retired police cruiser from the Dorris California Police Department, an all-white Plymouth with a souped-up engine. In November of 1979, Bob Glassley and a few friends piled into his car for a road trip down the West Coast.
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