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Summary:

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 Linklater (Slacker/School of Rock); singer David Yow (Scratch Acid/Jesus Lizard); drummer Teresa Taylor (Butthole Surfers); and local luminaries Adriane "Ash" Shown and Donna Rich. True mavericks banded together to make a stand, and... Texas Is the Reason.

Table of Contents:

• We were there / Richard Linklater
• Texan to the core / Donna Rich
• Lift as you climb / Adriane "Ash" Shown
• Life on the ledge / David Yow
• Someday all the adults will die! / Pat Blashill
• A Texas trip timeline
• The terrific top ten / Teresa Taylor.

Author/Creator:

Blashill, Pat , photographer, author

Contributors:

Linklater, Richard, 1960- , author

Yow, David, 1960- , author

Shown, Adriane , author

Rich, Donna (Social worker) , author

Taylor, Teresa, 1962- , author

Photography Study Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Texas is the reason: the mavericks of Lone Star punk [by Blashill, P.]

Subjects:

Blashill, Pat

Punk rock music — Texas — Pictorial works

Punk rock musicians — Texas — Pictorial works

Rock groups — Pictorial works

Rock groups — Portraits

Punk rock musicians — Pictorial works

Punk rock musicians — Portraits

Photography

Punk rock music

Punk rock musicians

Rock groups

Texas

Genres:

Portraits

Illustrated works

Pictorial works

General Notes:

"Featuring: The Big Boys, The Dicks, Butthole Surfers, Poison 13, The Hickoids, The Offenders, Scratch Acid, Daniel Johnston, Doctors' Mob, Glass Eye"--Back cover.
Purchase; 2021.
Bound as issued, illustrated paper-covered boards.
Inserted in volume is original photograph stamped on reverse: "1/300 Photo by Pat Blashill", and with a sticker on the enclosure for the book and identifying the people in the photo.

Physical Description:

239 pages : black and white illustrations, black and white portraits ; 28 cm

Physical Characteristics:

monochrome; portrait; illustration

Call Numbers:

ML87 .B53 2020

ISBNs:

9781935950172 (hardcover)
1935950177 (hardcover)

OCLC Numbers:

1140667401