Punk Rock Photographs


Bad Brains, with singer HR, performing at the Speedway Cafe in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 30, 1989.

Photo: Bad Brains, August 1989

Punk Rock Photos

I started taking a camera to punk rock shows in 1985. The resulting photographs have been internationally recognized.

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The Best

A gallery of my favorite shots, from 1986-1999, including:
Adolescents, AFI, All, Asexuals, Avail, Bad Brains, Bad Yodelers, Boy Sets Fire, Clear, Cro-Mags, Crumbsuckers, Dag Nasty, Deftones, Doughboys, Dropkick Murphys, Earth Crisis, fIREHOSE, Frontline, Fugazi, Fury 66, GG Allin, Good Riddance, Goldfinger, GWAR, Hoods, Insted, Isocracy, Leeway, Link 80, Madball, Machine Head, Mannequin Beach, No For An Answer, Ookla the Mok, Operation Ivy, Powerhouse, Rancid, Refused, Riot at the Madball show, Scream, Screw 32, Second Coming, Sick of it All, Snapcase, SNFU, Soulside, Suicide Machines, Uniform Choice, Short Dogs Grow, Unit Pride, Verbal Assault, Voivod, Will Haven, Youth of Today.And if I could find those negs from the NOFX show at Gilman Street in 1988…

1985-1986

featuring: Frontline, Rabid Lassie, Dr. Know, Justice League.

1987

featuring: Adolescents, Mykel Board and Artless, Asexuals, Cringer,Dag Nasty, Can I Say era- one of the best albums everDead Jacksons, Doughboys, Frontline, Hardstance (with Zach from Rage), Hells Kitchen, Hickoids, Insted, Isocracy,A couple shots from the San Ramon Mosh Crew mud football game. Wish I had more.No For An Answer, early version of No Use For a Name, Operation Ivy, Paranoia, RKL, Scream, Social Unrest, Stikky, Subterranean Psychosis, early Unit Pride, Verbal Assault, Visual Discrimination, Youth of Today

1988

featuring: Breakaway- great friends, great times, wish we could do it again.Crumbsuckers show was sold out, we talked our way in with a Provo Daily Herald press pass. Thanks Speedway!Operation Ivy- classic Gilman St. show, horrible high-speed slide film.Raunch Records (RIP). This was SLC Punk, not that horrible movie starring Shaggy.SNFU, always amazing live. First two albums are hall of fame.Short Dogs Grow, Social Unrest, Soulside, Swiz, Unit Pride, Voivod, Youth of Today

1989

featuring: All, Bad Brains, Bad Yodelers at Reptile Records (RIP), Better Way, Boxcar Kids, Cougar Eggs, Cro-Mags, Destructor, Donkey Show, Fist, Fugazi, Insight, Leeway,Mannequin Beach was the funniest show ever. When the bass player came out wearing only a pizza box and started leaping around the crowd cleared out in about five seconds, leaving about three of us to enjoy the show. Afterwards, I remember the owner of Reptile Records (the venue) saying, “He asked me before the show if he could come out wearing a pizza box, but I had no idea that’s all he was gonna wear!”Sick of it All, Slaughterchrist, Stench, Uniform Choice, fIREHOSE.

1990

featuring: Fugazi in Salt Lake City fending off a small group of self-proclaimed Nazi Skinheads. Insight, great old school SLC band.The Stench. Bad Yodelers at the Pompodour, now a Tibetan Buddhist temple. Slaughterchrist

1991-1995

featuring: Henry Rollins Gap Advert.Great early AFI show, band came out in white shirts and skinny ties a la Reservoir Dogs.Dance Hall Crashers at Sproul Plaza, freezing cold gig.Deftones at Berkeley Square, these early shows before Adrenaline came out were brilliant.Down By Law.Bands in a Blender.GG Allin on TV.GWAR at the Omni in Oakland. My old Nikon still has stains from this show.Lunachicks.Rancid, so disappointed when their tour manager said, “First three songs only, no flash.” This show was amazing, wish the photos had been as well. Blame it on their lame flash rule.Screw 32. Undertow.

The crew of Insubordinator Magazine (Pete Hansen and Colby Buzzell under the famous Cal High bridge)

Second Coming; always great.

Undertow. The Criminals.

1996

featuring: Madball, Bluetip, Snapcase, Kerosene 454, XclearX, Powerhouse, Link 80, Rely, Lower Hand, Second Coming, Earth Crisis, Surly, Godflesh, Die Boy, Voodoo Glow Skulls, AFI, Avail, Triphammer, Holdstrong, Grimlock, Refused, Swingin’ Utters, Suicide Machines

1997

featuring: Deftones, Will Haven, Far, Shelter, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Goldfinger, GWAR, No Use For A Name, Vision of Disorder

1998

featuring: Madball, Zero Bull Shit, Powerhouse, Second Coming, Oppressed Logic, Agnostic Front, Dropkick Murphys, AFI, Earth Crisis, Skarhead, Good Riddance, Fury 66, Swingin’ Utters, Clear, Triphammer, Ookla the Mok, Grimlock, NOFX, All Day, Snuff, Suicide Machines, Dead Bodies Everywhere, Method 5150

1999

featuring: Second Coming, The Hoods, All Out War, Buried Alive, Clear, Lazarus Project, Fury 66, Avail, Dropkick Murphys, Boy Sets Fire

2000-2002

featuring: Snapcase graffiti in bombed-out Sarajevo, Bosnia. Flogging Molly, NOFX, Anti-Flag, Alkaline Trio, No Use For A Name

2003-2005

featuring: Bowling for Soup, Tsunami Bomb, My Chemical Romance, Strung Out, The Ataris, Dispute, Second Coming, Ernie Cortez Memorial Show (OBHC), Dropkick Murphys, Doomsday Device, Fall Out Boy (I know, they ain’t punk), The Starting Line.
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