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i BOUGHT THIS CD FOR ONE BAND THE DIL'S WHICH WHEN THEIR FIRST 7"CAME OUT WE THOUGHT THEY WERE THE OILS HA .ANY WAY GREAT COLLECTION OF WEST COAST PUNK 1978-79 PLUS THE DIL'S RULE!

We first saw the Germs in the Summer of 77 at a small hall in Westwood. We could hear Bobby Pyn singing the best lyrics in history. Two months later, they were a hardriving band. We saw them in the Hollywood hills, where Pat Smear put out some of the best guitar licks in history. I left their first two shows feeling confident that I would live a life of artistic satisfaction. I haven't had that feeling since.

The Controllers were the house band at Brendan Mullen's Masque in Hollywood 1977, were they would whip an audience into a frenzy. Dripping with sweat, the Controllers were the first and last band to play that venue of the early l.a. punk scene. The Controllers were known for their female drummer Charlie Trash, who brought color to shows that could be fierce. DOA Dan played his Vox Phantom bass. Like the Germs, the Controllers emerged from Santa Monica in the Summer of 77 as a beginner band playing a minimalist sound. Yet Johnny Stingray and Kid Spike wrote songs with more humor and were more testosterone induced. The Controllers played and practiced at The Masque with The Berlin Brats, The Skulls, The Go-Go's, The Screamers, The Midddle Class, The Dils, Alice Bag and The Germs in a somewhat communal atmosephere. "They didn't like the music they were getting, so they made their own." Lean and mean like Steve McQueen, the Controllers played at a superfast Ramones beat, the tempo which would prove most popular in Hollywood Punk77. The band was managed by the Fluxus artist Al Hansen, known as the creator of "Happenings" and as the paratrooper who pushed a piano out a fifth story window in wartime Europe. Such was the case in the early l.a. punk scene.