He brought punk rock to San Diego The patrons heading into the Spirit club shortly before nine on a recent Saturday night might have thought it peculiar that a large, paint-splattered wooden stepladder would be …
“They’re all city people moving up to Campo now,” he complains. “Hippies and kooks and dopers."
Posted January 8, 1981
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January 8, 1981