THE MASQUE 30th ANNIVERSARY PARTY & BOOK RELEASE

Thanks to Andy S. for the following:

THE MASQUE 30th ANNIVERSARY PARTY & BOOK RELEASE
Venue: Echoplex + Echo
Date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
Time: 3pm onwards
Where: Enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd in Echo Park, CA
Who: THE PLUGZ (Tito Larriva, Barry McBride & Charlie Quintana), THE EYES (Charlotte Caffey of the Go Go’s; DJ Bonebrake of X; Knitters and Joe Ramirez of Black Randy & the Metro Squad), SKULLS and a hell of a lot more TBA. All Ages.

Celebrate the release of Live at the Masque 77-79 (R77/Gingko Press) a 300+ page photo artbook painstakingly compiled and edited by Brendan Mullen (Masque founder-author) and street art digital archivist Roger Gastman (founder of R77 Books) featuring several different locations for the Masque and Masque Presents shows, including the original basement space of Cecil B. de Mille’s building
in downtown Hollywood.

More about the line-up:
Plugz (Tito Larriva, Barry McBride & Charlie Quintana) will reunite for the first time since 1982 to perform the Electrify Me album in its entirety. This classic recording was the first full-length studio album self-produced, self-released on their own label by any band from the 1977 punk scene.

The Eyes (with Charlotte Caffey of the Go Go's), DJ Bonebrake (X, Knitters) and Joe Ramirez (Black Randy & the Metro Squad)…one of the original pop-punkers to play the Masque, the Eyes beautifully belied the myth that punk rock bands didn’t know how to play their instruments. Along with the Avengers, the Eyes were Masque regulars and an unacknowledged early influence on X, still getting their sound down during 1977.
This original version of the Eyes broke up during 1978 when X raided DJ and the Go Go’s bagged Charlotte. Joe Ramirez who played punk rock on a Telecaster and performed and recorded with Black Randy’s band, will fly in specially from his current home in Casper, Wyoming.

THE SKULLS.
The Billy Bones Band convenes an open invitation to living Skulls alumni from the beginning of the band (Fall of 1977 to the present] to come and join in. Expect all the early hits: Victims, Incomplete Suicide, Kill Me, Kill Me, Building Models, On Target, etc. and whatever surprises… Many more bands TBA next week…

More about the book:
Previously unpublished photos, posters, flyers for bands who got their start there like X, Go Go’s, Dickies, Bags, Eyes, Black Randy & the Metro Squad, Plugz, Skulls, Controllers and the Deadbeats leap out of every page, many of them in full color. Also included are pre-Masque bands who played there to ever-expanding audiences, namely the Alleycats, Zeros, Dils, Screamers, Germs, Weirdos, Avengers, Mau Mau’s, and many more pioneers of early West Coast punk/hardcore.

Photography by: Michael Yampolsky, Frank Gargani, Eric Blum, Melanie Nissen, Ann Summa, Al Flipside, Dawn Wirth, Gaby Berlin, Donna Santisi, Jenny Lens, Alain Saint-Alix, Jules Bates, Carol Torres, Bibbe Hansen, Jill Ash, Jill Von Hoffman, Ladd McPartland, Scott Lindgren, Philomena Winstanley, Kerry Colonna, Herb Wrede, Chris D., David Guilburt, Tony Montesion and others.

Poster/flyer designers: David Allen, Judith Bell, David Brown, Exene Cervenka, Chris D., Margaret Guzman, Larry “Dammit” Hammett, Havoc, Lux Interior, Bob Biggs, Tony Kinman, Paul Lesperance, Paul Picasso, Tom Recchion, Cliff Roman, Brendan Mullen…

Foreword by curator-historian Kristine McKenna. Introduction by Brendan Mullen.
http://www.gingkopress.com/_cata/_popk/live%20at%20masq.htm