The Damned were playing at the Whisky. Earl (Rick Sherman), the drummer of the Mau-Maus, was my boyfriend but things had gotten a bit weird between us since my ex, Greg Salva, (the guitarist of the Mau-Maus) had returned from a few weeks in New York.
8 July 1979
My car wouldn't start. So all day we tried to find another ride. We were gonna take the bus. But finally Mom let me take the station wagon. And I didn't miss the Flyboys! They were great!
Sat on the side of the stage for the Damned and wished I had brought my camera. They didn't sound so great but I thought they were fun to watch. Dave Vanium is such a vampire - his purple satin-lined cape was so neat. The new bassist is cute and Cpt. Sensible wore pink fuzzy pants and a blue fuzzy top, a hippie wig and specs. His pants fell down! Rat Scabies was spitting beer on the audience and he sang a song and C.S. played drums.
Jill [Jordan] left right after. They wouldn't let me go out [of the Whisky] so I stayed in. I didn't find out till later that Mary [Rat] had sold her ticket. [I guess I was waiting for her to come in for the second show.] Tooth Fairy [my ex, Gary Tonda] came, and Beer Keg Greg [yet another ex, Greg Williams]. [Jill and I had devised Cockney rhyming slang names for everyone, partly so we could talk about people freely without anyone knowing who we were talking about!] Talked to Tooth a long time and told them both about Rod's party. [Rod Donahue was the bassist of the Mau-Maus, who would be playing at the Masque club on Rod's birthday. The Masque had closed some time ago, but there were occasional parties there. I'm pretty sure this was the last one ever!] Watched the Flyboys again then I decided I'd better go out.
Chirelle [another name for Jill Jordan; her rhyming slang name was Doan's Little Pill; mine was Altadena Dairy] was in the parking lot. [This was the parking lot for Licorice Pizza, a record store kitty-corner across from the Whisky.] So were all the Mau-Maus!! Le Roy [this was Craig Stoker], Chirelle and I shuffled down to the liquor store. When we came back I was so nervous and scared to go up there and Earl didn't see me till he walked out and I looked at him and he at me and he said, "Why won't you come and say hi to me?!" and I said, "Why won't you say hi to me?" and we hugged. He had gotten in a fight with some of the Simpletones [?!!!] and his face was puffing up. Then he and Slim [Rick Wilder] had to go in.
Chirelle and I were talking to Rotten Egg Greg Salva. It was fun. She and Paul [manager of the Mau-Maus] got in an argument about their mothers.
The cops came, about firecrackers and they believed the story about trendies! [Yeah, I hate firecrackers so it would have had nothing to do with me, but when in danger, blame it on the trendies!]
Greg took a fancy to my Crash Course badge [Crash Course was a band from Liverpool, with my ex, Mick Reid on guitar, and also Pete Wylie for a while; Mick had give me this badge] and tried to talk me out of it. He said he'd give me anything for it. Except money. Then he took it!
I tried to get it back and Greg kept attacking me. ["Attacking", in our teenage lingo, usually meant uninvited pawing, or, depending on the circumstances and context, I suppose sometimes it was equivalent to making a pass or throwing oneself at another.] He had started earlier - when Claire [never knew her surname but she was English and went out with Billy, the guitarist of UXA] came up and accused me of having her pants [to my friends over the pond I mean trousers here and she meant that I had the same type or similar, not that I was wearing hers!], he "helped" her "check them out"... I admit at first I felt a little tempted, but he was acting like such a creep and I thought Earl was coming back. [Gosh, who sounds like the creep here!]
We were gonna go but then I remembered the badge!!! Whenever I tried to get it off Greg he'd try to molest me! He tried to drag me off to his car and then my car and then he was carrying me around over his shoulder like some kind of cave man. I got so hot and sweaty from fighting with him!!! And I never did get the badge back... [I don't think I ever did, even though I was back together with him before the end of the year.]
When I backed the car out I tried to run Greg down, with no success ...
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| I did in fact get my Crash Course badge back, as I found both of them when I went through the stuff at my parents' house in 2015, after I had transcribed and annotated the above. |
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