PAT BLASHILL – texas is the reason: mavericks of lone star punk (Papier)
Deluxe 240-page hardcover book!! Arriving in 1978, hitched to the back of the Sex Pistols tour bus, punk soon became as mythic in Texas as the state´s devotion to football, cattle, and prayer. Confrontational renegades like the Huns, the Big Boys, and the Dicks led a defiant new era of blood, sweat, and cross-dressing cowboys. Austin son Pat Blashill grabbed a camera and began shooting local punk bands, uncovering a story of desperation and creative deliverance, set in trailer parks, low-rent shared living, and wild, Texas bucket-of-beer bars. Joining Blashill´s more than 200 deep black and white photos here are essays by director Richard Linkater (Slacker/School of Rock); singer David Yow (Scratch Acid/Jesus Lizard); drummer Teresa Taylor (Butthole Surfers); and local luminaries Adriane "Aash" Shown and Donna Rich. True mavericks banded together to make a stand, and...Texas Is the Reason. Featuring the Big Boys, Dicks, Butthole Surfers, Poison 13, The Hickoids, Offenders, Scratch Acid, Daniel Johnston, Doctor´s Orers and Glass Eye! * Bazillion Points
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