Competition – win a copy of ‘My Punk Rock Life – The photography of Marla Watson’ with Music-News.com
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My Punk Rock Life – The Photography of Marla Watson is “A crucial document on the early days of US hardcore!”
And “A great archive of that time period. The bands, the people, the venues... everything is so well documented.”
With over 300 high-quality and rarely seen images from the infancy of the hardcore punk scene featuring seminal acts such as Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Dead Kennedys, The Misfits, The Damned, Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, The Vandals, Channel 3, The Adicts, Stiff Little Fingers, Shattered Faith, Fear, White Flag, Youth Brigade, Social Distortion, The Angry Samoans, Battalion of Saints, Redd Kross, 7 Seconds, Suicidal Tendencies, Descendents, Bad Brains, Discharge, UK Subs, The Clash, The Varukers, The English Dogs, T.S.O.L, The Lewd, Subhumans, Red Scare, Ill Repute, The Pandoras, The Blades, The Bangs, The Toy Dolls, Sin 34, GBH, The Dickies, DOA, and the list goes on!
These photos have sat in a box, untouched for forty years. Now Marla is sharing her photography with the world in her first book: My Punk Rock Life.“Marla paints an excellent picture of the SoCal punk scene during the 80s with her photography and anecdotes.”In the early ‘80s, Marla was a journalism major in college when she met a punk boy on the school paper. The two decided to start a fanzine. Marla owned a camera, so she became the photographer. The pair managed to put out one issue of Skank Magazine before breaking up, but Marla kept on going to shows and taking pictures.
Marla’s photos have been used on LPs by Minor Threat and Channel 3. Most of Marla’s work remained unseen until this book.
Marla left Los Angeles in 1991 and moved sight unseen to Portland, Oregon, where she met her deadhead husband Walt and settled down, raising their daughter Hailey. They are now empty nesters with two spoiled German Shepherds named Iggy Pup and Strummer Jo.
You can go to: https://www.music-news.com/competition/5565/My-Punk-Rock-Life-The-Photography-of-Marla-Watson to enter the free and easy competition to win a copy of this great book.
Or you can still pick up a copy at Earth Island Books.
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