An oral history of the beginnings of Punk Rock in San Francisco from the people who made it happen with interviews by James Stark a early influential visual artist of the San Francisco Punk Scene. Interviews with V. Vale publisher ReSearch, Dirk Dirksen Mabuhay Promoter, Penelope Houston singer The Avengers, Tommy Gear The Screamers and Seventeen more from the people who were there,

His first photos of the band Crime were published in Rock Scene magazine in September 1977.

His early photographs influenced a generation of Rock and Roll Photographers.

A Search and Destroy contributing photographer

These words from the past are as relevant today as they were in 1977