Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day

. She was a columnist at SF Weekly and the Village Voice. Jack Boulware is the author of San Francisco Bizarro, and was a columnist at SF Weekly throughout the 1990s. Silke Tudor was born in the Bay Area and reared on punk. His writing has appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy, Mojo and on Salon

Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra?s bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco?s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley?s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, Gimme Something Better chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.. An oral history of the modern punk-revival?s West Coast BirthplaceOutside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world

She was a columnist at SF Weekly and the Village Voice. . About the Author Jack Boulware is the author of San Francisco Bizarro, and was a columnist at SF Weekly throughout the 1990s. Silke Tudor was born in the Bay Area and reared on punk. His writing has appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy, Mojo and on Salon

So soI was there and it doesn't capture much, except name dropping Kinda interesting, but to be honest, as someone who was right in the middle of punk in SF throughout the 80's, and in the Haight when some of the events in one chapter were kinda/sorta mentioned, this book left me kind of disappointed. If you were one of the two dozen or less people repeatedly mentioned in the book, I am sure it was great, but to give a feel of what the City was like in those years and in that mixeh, really was a bunch of name droppingand let's ad. The first half is great Great book, I really enjoyed it. The first half is great, but when they began talking about stuff like Rancid, who to me are such derivative, cliche sell outs, and Gilman street, where you have to read and follow their little punk rock rule book to be downClearly the early days, with incredible bands like Crime, Avengers, Flipper and Negative Trend, were of a totally different vibe and mind set In a nutshell, the early bands were amazing, then it all got regimente. Eric E. Johnson said What? No J Church?. Great book! The oral history style lends itself well for punk rock scene stories. This ones better than others because it continues through the years & into the current century. You experience how violence & factionalism nearly killed punk but celebrate how it bounced back with a vengeance. My main complaint is the don't even mention my favorite band J Church. I don't understand how a band with hundreds of releases(really!) could somehow be overlooked. Anyway the