The 80s Underground Punk Rock Scene In Los Angeles with Edward C Colver X David Alexander Willis | AD 82
With iconic photography of young iconoclasts, musicians, and bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Circle Jerks, Ice Cube, and Bad Religion, as well as hundreds of other early punk and hip hop bands, Edward Colver was an insider to the turbulent and burgeoning underground music scene of early-eighties Los Angeles. Since active in photography for more than forty years, he first documented an average of five local shows a week using only a 35mm camera, flash, and Kodak Tri-X film.\xa0
Colver\u2019s book, Blight at the End of the Funnel, collects some of the best of his hardcore punk and promotional work for record companies. His shot of Henry Rollins for the cover of Black Flag\u2019s \u201cDamaged\u201d album was used on billboards and lamppost flyers throughout Los Angeles during the Annenberg Space for Photography\u2019s Who Shot Rock and Roll installation in 2012, curated by Brooklyn Museum curator and author Gail Buckland. In addition to numerous other openings, including Shepard Fairey\u2019s Subliminal Projects gallery and a solo show at Lethal Amounts this last year.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- The punk rock revolution in Los Angeles
- Edward\u2019s experience shooting Henry Rollins for Black Flag\u2019s \u201cDamaged\u201d album cover
- His run in with Jerry Lee Lewis
- Working with Ice Cube
- Suing Interscope Records
- His experiences shooting photographs for 36 years
- Shooting the Circle Jerks \u201cGroup Sex\u201d album cover
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