Table of Contents
1 Intro: We're Having Much More Fun Tom DeSavia 1
2 Mash Pit UbuistS Tim Robbins 8
3 It Sounds Too Much Like The Blasters: 1982-1985 Dave Alvin 13
4 Sliver Of Glass Jane Wiedlin 26
5 Under the Marquee W. T. Morgan 44
6 The New World John Doe 58
7 Another State of Mind Mike Ness Tom DeSavia 64
8 Hollywood Shuffle Keith Morris Jim Ruland 75
9 Deliverance Charlotte Caffey 88
10 The Ongoing Cost of a Law-Grade Immortality Jack Grisham 101
11 Princess of Hollywood Pleasant Gehman 106
12 Los Lohos: Los Rockstars Accidentales Louie Pérez 127
13 Top Jimmy: In the Mud and the Blood and the Beer John Doe 135
14 Our Wolf Chris Morris 137
15 Grand Theft Paper: A Conversation with Billy Zoom John Doe 148
16 Prep School Confidential: Finding My Voice Shepard Fairey 154
17 You Say You Want an Evolution Tom DeSavia 166
18 This World Is Not My Home, I'm Just Passing Through Maria McKee Tom DeSavia 169
19 The Paisley Underground, Americana & Me Sid Griffin 183
20 Ten Short Years on the Sunset Strip Peter Case 197
21 The Kinman Brothers: American Music Tom DeSavia 210
22 One Thousand Nights Chip Kinman 213
23 Skate Punks Tony Hawk Steve Hawk 219
24 Free Radicals: A Conversation with Fishbone John Doe 223
25 Come on, AH You Cowboys … Don't You Wanna Go? Annette Zilinskas 238
26 Ain't Love Grand John Doe 252
27 Shot Glass Full Of Luck Terry Graham 264
28 Hardcore to Spoken Word: A Conversation with Henry Rollins John Doe 277
29 Everything Became Possible Allison Anders 290
30 Fallen Soldiers John Doe 302
31 Outro: We Work at Night John Doe 306
Acknowledgments 309
The Contributors 310
Index 317
