OG

(Original Goth, that is)

Pondering my life from 1985, and the scene thereof, including but not limited to hairspray and black eyeliner nights at two of LA's famous goth nightspots, the Crypt and the Scream, and the music to be found onstage, on the dance floor, or on the home stereo, provided by:

45 Grave
Bauhaus
Black Sabbath
Chameleons UK
Christian Death
Cocteau Twins
The Cult
The Cure
Dali's Car
The Damned
David Bowie
Depeche Mode
The Dickies
Downy Mildew
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Fall
Henry Rollins
Iggy Pop
Japan
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Joy Division
Kommunity FK
L.A. Guns
Love
Love & Rockets
Mission UK
New Order
Peter Murphy
Richard Hell
Rollins Band
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sisters of Mercy
The Smiths
Sonic Youth
The Swans
Television
Tones on Tail
Velvet Underground
Wire

My old friend RJ Vasquez was there as well --- former lead singer of the LA goth phenoms Corpus Delicti, the short-lived (but promising) Faith Assembly (of which I was a part), and now fronting a very good band called Why?Things Burn. Check him out, ya'll.