Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Original San Diego punk band regroups and re-energizes
First-wave Executives
The Executives did what other local punks have failed — get the band back together.
The first time I saw the Executives play was when I hired them to open for a Penetrators show I was promoting at the La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas.
Lead singer Mike Jenks explains 35 years later why there was all that costly damage, like the trashed bathroom doors, to the historic theater.
“That was the first time that the San Diego and North County punk scenes converged. Because of that, there was a certain amount of chaos. There were a lot of sub-sect skirmishes back then.”
Local punk perennials the Executives will open for Stiff Little Fingers on Thursday night.
At the time, the local punk scene had just a handful of bands, including the Carlsbad-based Dils, “the pioneers of all pioneers,” who had by then moved to L.A. “At the time we were about it for North County,” says Jenks. “We made it a point to get out of the North County bubble and get down to San Diego. I would go to all the shows at the Skeleton Club, the Lions Club, the Zebra Club. We would open for the Misfits, the Gears, and the Buzzcocks. We were in the first wave [of punk]. That’s how we got slotted in.
“The scene started getting violent with people getting really pissed off around 1982. That’s why we moved on.”
Jenks says the Executives have done what several other early SD punk bands — Battalion of Saints, the Targets, the Standbys, Upbeats — have failed to pull off. “We got back together with all original members,” including bassist Chris Goldsmith, drummer Bill Gerber, and guitarists Dave Sharp and Matt McEwen.
“We couldn’t resist asking to open for the Penetrators when they reunited at the Casbah a few years ago.” That led to a Belly Up show with the Buzzcocks in January.
Past Event
Stiff Little Fingers
- Thursday, July 30, 2015, 8 p.m.
- Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Avenue, Solana Beach
- 21+ / $22 - $39
“This is unbelievable for us. We’re in our 50s, and these [headliners] are in their 60s. It’s inspiring to see how committed they still are.”
I note that it probably doesn’t hurt that Goldsmith oversees the Belly Up booking crew.
“That’s not true. We got passed up twice. We wanted to play with Gang of Four and the Adolescents/Weirdos.
The Executives appears July 30 at Belly Up with Stiff Little Fingers.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Original San Diego punk band regroups and re-energizes
First-wave Executives
Original San Diego punk band regroups and re-energizes
First-wave Executives
The Executives did what other local punks have failed — get the band back together.
The first time I saw the Executives play was when I hired them to open for a Penetrators show I was promoting at the La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas.
Lead singer Mike Jenks explains 35 years later why there was all that costly damage, like the trashed bathroom doors, to the historic theater.
“That was the first time that the San Diego and North County punk scenes converged. Because of that, there was a certain amount of chaos. There were a lot of sub-sect skirmishes back then.”
Local punk perennials the Executives will open for Stiff Little Fingers on Thursday night.
At the time, the local punk scene had just a handful of bands, including the Carlsbad-based Dils, “the pioneers of all pioneers,” who had by then moved to L.A. “At the time we were about it for North County,” says Jenks. “We made it a point to get out of the North County bubble and get down to San Diego. I would go to all the shows at the Skeleton Club, the Lions Club, the Zebra Club. We would open for the Misfits, the Gears, and the Buzzcocks. We were in the first wave [of punk]. That’s how we got slotted in.
“The scene started getting violent with people getting really pissed off around 1982. That’s why we moved on.”
Jenks says the Executives have done what several other early SD punk bands — Battalion of Saints, the Targets, the Standbys, Upbeats — have failed to pull off. “We got back together with all original members,” including bassist Chris Goldsmith, drummer Bill Gerber, and guitarists Dave Sharp and Matt McEwen.
“We couldn’t resist asking to open for the Penetrators when they reunited at the Casbah a few years ago.” That led to a Belly Up show with the Buzzcocks in January.
Past Event
Stiff Little Fingers
- Thursday, July 30, 2015, 8 p.m.
- Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Avenue, Solana Beach
- 21+ / $22 - $39
“This is unbelievable for us. We’re in our 50s, and these [headliners] are in their 60s. It’s inspiring to see how committed they still are.”
I note that it probably doesn’t hurt that Goldsmith oversees the Belly Up booking crew.
“That’s not true. We got passed up twice. We wanted to play with Gang of Four and the Adolescents/Weirdos.
The Executives appears July 30 at Belly Up with Stiff Little Fingers.
Comments