Vibrant images from the San Francisco Bay Area Punk Rock Scene in a deluxe hardcover Murray Bowles photographed Bay Area punk for four decades, capturing its infectious energy, wild creativity, and ragged tenderness everywhere he found it. From San Francisco’s Mabuhay Gardens to Berkeley’s 924 Gilman—and the countless basements, backyards, and warehouses in between—Murray was there, camera in hand, the scene’s beloved documentarian. Collected here for the first time, Murray’s classic images chronicle a uniquely dynamic and enduring music community in all its chaos and glory. Featuring hundreds of images of bands such as Green Day, Operation Ivy, Neurosis, Crimpshrine, the Dead Kennedys, MDC, Special Forces, Social Unrest, Spit Boy, Melvins, Gwar, Soundgarden, NOFX, The Offspring and many, many more.This collection of photographs documents and celebrates the punk music scene from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s. Hail MurrayThe Bay Area Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995By Murray BowlesEdited by Anna BrownIntroduction by Aaron Cometbus ISBN 9780867199277Hardcover, 270 pages, 12 x 9 landscape
