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Really sad ending and downfall of Darby. His last days seemed so sad and only hindsight shows his eagerness to reach out and hang. The final show was epic but then depression took over. Casey shouldn’t have enabled him, but it was his choice. Just such a sad loss of life that could’ve turned around. Living in the closet must’ve also played a role. Why not more stories from London? What’d he do there?

Wow, there’s so creepy pedophile shit going on in LA and Darby’s sexuality is starting to come out but he doesn’t want to be like the creeps he sees. He’s rejected by or shared partners a few times. The GI album is recorded pretty quickly. LA doesn’t like Black Flag or the upcoming hardcore scene. Only a few years’ difference.

It’s super hard to put this down. The early history of LA punk is so compelling and the cast of characters have vivid recollections. The photos are historic.

Paul (Darby) and Pat went to a Scientology hippie school and wreaked havoc on the youth until being expelled. Darby was quite the poetic wordsmith from early on and a huge fan of David Bowie. Also a big reader and read anything and everything he could.

Good start, just wish the interviewees’ info or affiliation were stated the first time they appeared instead of flipping to pg269 to find their associations. Good photos and history.