Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles
As you read Hell On Wheels, hundreds of bands are on tour, criss-crossing the country. Some are traveling in tour buses, playing huge venues to thousands of people. Others are in beat-up Ford Econoline vans, playing in tiny clubs to no one. They all have stories about their tours. Some are funny, some are nightmares. This is a compilation of those stories. Greg Jacobs managed the bands Big DRILL Car, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket from the Crypt, and Supernova and has worked at the record labels Enigma, CRUZ, SST, Cargo, Capitol (for one day), and Trust. He currently manages two of the aforementioned bands (even though they're inactive), freelances for one of the aforementioned labels, is a music photographer and has written one book, twice. By day, he is a mild-mannered insurance executive living in Long Beach, California. As a teen growing up in the 80’s, Linda Aronow fell in love with punk rock...and photography. After “borrowing” her father’s Canon AE1 she became a staple at shows across Southern California, often at the edge of the stage shooting the bands of the time, many of them still going strong, and many now gone forever. Punk And Other 4 Letter Words is a collection of some of her favorite punk, goth, and rock photos from this period. Linda Aronow was the manger of WACKO on Melrose during it’s heyday in the 80s and 90s when Punk was becoming New Wave, but the Post Punk sound was giving way to what would soon be termed Alternative Rock. On the weekends, kids flocked from East LA and the Valley to Melrose Avenue to buy their Doc Martens and Manic Panic hair dye, and Linda was everybody’s favorite Goth Shopkeeper. In the evenings Linda was busy documenting the live music scene of that era, and managed to capture still photos of the most iconic bands of the day over multiple gigs spanning over a decade. Her work has been licensed by various independent record labels including Cleopatra, Dionysus, Demon Records, Radiation Records, and Mystic Records, as well as print publications such as L.A. Reader, Generation Magazine, Not Like You Zine, and Razorblades and Aspirin. Linda has several photos on display at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. Hosted by: Jim Ruland (My Damage [Keith Morris bio], Do What You Want (Bad Religion bio), Corporate Rock Sucks, and many more) Featuring: Nick Adams (MIA) John Ross Bowie (Egghead, Big Bang Theory) Pleasant Gehman (Screamin' Sirens) Dan O'Manhony (No For An Answer, 411, Carry Nation) Jaime Pina (Chemical People, Down By Law, PRV)