What I liked about that episode is that when they were inside the "punker house" they had like Slayer and Dio posters on the walls. And that their hit song was called "I Dig Pain." Apparently the show's writers couldn't tell the difference between punks or hippies or metalheads, so they decided to just throw everything into the blender.

Check the TBS Superstation schedule frequently enough and you might chance upon that magic episode.

www.superstation.com/schedul...,00.html

Like tonight at 4:20 AM, for instance, you could see this episode:

"Dynamite Alley

Bonnie claims a truck forced her off a mountain road frequently used as an impromptu racetrack."

You can't make this stuff up.

I have a copy of that CHips episode on Tape. I actually found a copy of it on tape about 7 or 8 years ago. I was doing a research paper on that episode for a History of Broadcasting class in college and I was able to track down someone who had it. It starred one of the sisters from Eight is Enough. It's great! She's all "We're New Wave man! Punks angry. New Wave's all about having fun man." Hahahahah! Classic!

The Quincy episode in question, is called 'Last Stop To Nowere'. It used to be viewable on the Internet.

Sadly, it has vanished. However, if you look on the Dickies web site, you'll see The Dickies on CPO Sharkey, performing 'Hideous'. For me, this was a piss-poor introduction to Punk, but I had enough sense to tell that the music, band, and audience was real. I was hooked from that moment. Anyway, here's a link-

www.thedickiesarchives.com/mult...us.rm

Holy crap. I was gonna, but no one ever remembers that place. Godzillas was freaking amazing.

and in the OC - Fender's ballroom, Bogart's

oh, i am sorry, i should have answered a while back.

yeah, the building is there, it is just that the club is not.

it is like going to the masque building(s) (i am around the one on cherokee frequently. they are doing some sort of retrofitting to it) & the building is there, but, oh heavens, it is NOT the same.

& now, of course, book city is not the same either, just the sign is still there-- & not for long.

there used to be about a dozen bookshops all over hollywood boulevard; my exhusband & i would go used bookshopping all the time up there-- he had just turned 17 & i was a couple of years younger-- we LOVED that place SO much-- it sounds so strange, you could not say something like this now, but he was heavily into beckett (he has maybe a semester & a quarter of college) & me, i dont think i was much better than doing fashion in those days, but dark & getting darker (my favorite book was "the savage God" whencefrom i took half my name--) --my exhusband had the best book collection i have ever seen-- & he had just turned 17. then, of course, he went berserk-- not postal, just berserk-- now i have to tell people, well, you know his mother was schizophrenic--

ah, i talk so much. too much. but i was a Club Addict from the time i was 10 years old & trying to get to rodneys, which may even have been closed by then. Rock & Roll was my dream life. how horrible it has changed.

has anyone mentioned the sugar shack yet?? speaking of underage business--

or rodneys, come to think of it-- although i never got there. i have a friend who is a photographer who did, & she also photographed john lennon, i think at the troubadour, years before i ever got anywhere.....