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'70s East LA punk rocker Velasquez writes memoir 'Violence Girl'
(The Bags live in San Francisco)
The band the Bags played an important role in Los Angeles’ late 1970s punk rock scene.
The band’s lead singer, Alicia Velasquez, aka Alice Bag, has penned a new memoir,
“Violence Girl, From East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage — A Chicana Punk Story.”
Violence Girl Trailer Survive - The Bags
(Music video trailer for Violence Girl, From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage - A Chicana Punk Story
by Alice Bag. Published by Feral House. This video features elements, themes and images from
Alice Bag's memoir.)
The daughter of a Mexican father and Mexican-American mother, Velasquez’s story starts in East L.A.
"I grew up watching Spanish-language movies," Velasquez says, reading from her book. "'Peliculas de la epoca de oro,
' films from the golden age of Mexican cinema, were the ones my parents liked best. They’d seen them all before but they
never tired of watching Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Libertad Lamarque, Pedro Armendariz and Silvia Pinal on the big screen."
Velasquez’s mother and sister provided the beautiful memories. Her father, some of the worst.
One side of him, she says, showered her with unconditional love. "On the other hand, the other side of my dad, was that
he really had a terrible relationship with my mother, and abused her in very violent ways, very savagely. And I had to witness that."
Velasquez says her own aggression burst to the surface later. In 1977, with five friends she’d met on her adventures in Hollywood,
she founded the Bags.
She took the name Alice Bag and developed a violent, aggressive on-stage persona. One critic, she says, labeled her a Babylonian Gorgon.
The band turned that compliment into a song.
"I’m bouncing on stilettos like a fighter in the ring," Velasquez reads. "I charge out to the edge of the stage, full of adrenaline and fire,
singing to the faces in the front rows. They are my current, my source of energy. I urge them to engage. I know there’s something in them,
some inner carbonation lying still, waiting to be shaken."
The Bags’ starring role in the L.A. punk rock documentary “The Decline of Western Civilization” sealed the band’s reputation 30 years ago.
"It was a blast, it was insane, it could have killed me if I’d let it, and it did kill some people, yeah," Velasquez says.
Velasquez pulled out of the scene when friends started overdosing — and when her own problems got out of hand. Her father’s lifelong
push for her to go to college propelled her into the second part of her life.
Velasquez’s book “Violence Girl” is a pedal-to-the-metal memoir, minus the fear that you’ll end up bloodied when the punk rock club
engagement turns into a riot.
Velasquez reads from her memoir “Violence Girl” Saturday night at 7 at Antebellum Gallery in Hollywood.
http://www.artifixrecords.com/Alice%20Bag.html
The Bags - Violence Girl
The Bags - "Violence Girl" (Live Clip)
Info:
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/la-punk-claremont-museum-art/1527
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Posted - 30/11/2017 : 05:26:58
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hauntedcathouse
The Bags were one of the first generation of punk rock bands to emerge out of Los Angeles.
The Bags was formed by Alice Armandariz and Pat Morrison, who had met at an audition for Venus and the Razorblades, Kim Fowley's next attempt
at creating a band after The Runaways had left him. Alice and Pat decided to form their own band and from this The Bags were born. They took the band's
name and their stage names "Alice Bag" and "Pat Bag" from a gimmick that the band used during early performances where they would perform with grocery
bags over their heads (the practice didn't last, in part due to an incident where Darby Crash of The Germs ran up on stage and ripped the bag off of Alice's head).
Alice Bag was the vocalist and Pat Bag played bass. The band was rounded out by guitar players Craig Lee and Rob Ritter, and Terry Graham played drums.
The Bags played their first show at The Masque on September 10, 1977. The band's live shows soon became legendary. The concerts were riotous affairs
including altercations with celebrities, such as one between singer Tom Waits and drummer Nicky Beat at The Troubadour.
By 1979, they had released their first record, a single called "Survive", backed with "Babylonian Gorgon", released by independent record label Dangerhouse
Records. "We Don't Need The English" was included on the Yes L.A. punk compilation released by the same label.
After this, Pat left the band. In 1980 the group, minus Pat, was filmed by Penelope Spheeris for the seminal punk rock documentary film, The Decline of Western
Civilization, which also featured The Germs, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, X and other prominent L.A. punk bands. However, at the release of the film in 1981
the producers billed the group as Alice Bag Band to avoid any conflict with ex-member Pat. By then, however, the band had broken up.
The Bags (live) - February 5th, 1978, The Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA
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Posted - 30/11/2017 : 05:32:02
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The Bags - Disco's Dead
The Bags - Babylonian Gorgon
The Bags - Survive (1984)
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Posted - 30/11/2017 : 22:43:40
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Meg Meyers
Meg Myers - Monster [Music Video]
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