1. The History of Punk
... there was a once weekly show at Mabuhay Gardens. Like once a week the punks took it over, this was '76, it was really a thing of these proto-punks. There was this girl named Mary Monday, who might have been a transvestite or something. I have these vague memories of these shows I saw there. It was like transvestite cabaret or something, kind of pre-punk ... and his band, the Dead Kennedy's were performing to crowds of disgruntled youth at clubs like the Mabuhay Gardens, in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. "The Dead Kennedys'" lyrics, composed by Biafra, were socio-politica...
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