Vintage Punk Rock Flyer 1981: Dischords, The Brat, Cuckoo's Nest in Costa Mesa

Description: PUNK ROCK SHOW FLYER BANDS: Dischords, The Brat VENUE: Cuckoo's Nest [1714 Placenta, Costa Mesa] DATE: Tuesday, September 1, [1981] DESCRIPTION: 8½" x 11"Flyer designed to be cut up and $1-off coupon used at the door. A picture of the band, and some comedy photo/text designs, stating the concert location is "Next to Rad Dad Cowboy Bar" [Zubies; see Notes below]. Possible flyer artist name [Andy] part of middle right picture. CONDITION: This flyer has a classic punk veteran look and hits all the damage points: Four folds to form 16 sections, dirt, wear, rips at corners, vintage tape stains, other stains, so much ageing it almost looks like tan paper a missing top right corner piece replaced, taped on and doctored to re-create the "s" at the end of Dischords (!) plus a random felt pen mark above their name. NOTES: The Dischords were from Southern California, and played British-style punk with an English singer. They had only one 7" EP record, released in 1982 - members: Andy Russell (9), Chris Engel, Chuck Briggs, Scott Kellems. The Brat were an American punk band from East Los Angeles, California formed in the late 70's.Featuring Chicano punk rock, this ensemble originated from the barrios of ELA. Its three core members were lead singer Teresa Covarrubias, lead guitarist Rudy Medina, and alternate lead and rhythm guitarist Sidney Medina. From their conception in late 1978 to their eventual break-up in 1985, The Brat were true pioneers in their genre, and are best known for their five-song EP Attitudes, released in 1980 through indie label Fatima Records. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please view carefully all photographic scans included, which are of the actual item(s) in the listing -These are an important part of the description. Please ask any questions prior to bid or purchase. The "make offer" feature is not activated. No foreign sales. Thank You. ---------------------------------------------------------SPECIAL HISTORICAL NOTE ON VENUE:Cuckoo's Nest (1976–1981) was a nightclub that was located at 1714 Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, California. The club was founded in 1976 by Jerry Roach, a former bar owner who had turned to selling real estate, after receiving the property from a client as a commission payment. A local Costa Mesa bar that was already in operation was named Jaws, after the film, and Roach took inspiration from this and similarly named his new venture after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the big box-office draw of that year, to make the club's name easily memorable. At first the club catered to fans of conventional rock. After almost two years, a slow period hit the business and in February 1978 Roach decided to give the bands that played a relatively new form of music called punk rock a shot.The first punk show to take place at The Nest was a benefit for the legendary Los Angeles punk club, The Masque, and took place on February 16, 1978. The owner of The Masque, Brendan Mullen, brought along the bands that performed that night, which included The Skulls, The Bags, The Controllers, and Steamin' Freeman. Conflict with Zubie's:Cuckoo's Nest shared a small plaza parking lot of a liquor store, a transmission shop, a laundromat, as well as a bar and grill next door named Zubie's that had an "urban cowboy" motif, which attracted a mainly blue-collar crowd. The parking lot of The Nest was as popular a hangout as the club itself, and was usually filled with punks. There were almost nightly confrontations between the punks from the Cuckoo's Nest and the cowboys from Zubie's, being almost always started by the latter, who would usually hurl homophobic and ignorant remarks at the punks and were known to assault them without provocation, regardless of age or gender.As tensions mounted within the community regarding the Cuckoo's Nest, the police started to station themselves outside of the club on a nearly nightly basis and started cracking down hard on both the punks and the club itself. Undercover officers, usually posing as cowboys but sometimes as punks, started to be a regular sight in the parking lot. Arrests became commonplace in and around the club, for even the tiniest infraction (jaywalking and littering were popular offenses), and steadily escalated to the point where business started to suffer. There was a very real threat that patrons could be arrested for any number of reasons before they ever even stepped inside the club. Soon after this, the "Pat Brown" incident happened in early 1981 [see internet Wiki], and the Costa Mesa city council revoked the entertainment permit for the Cuckoo's Nest, alleging that the clubs patrons were unruly and violent. Roach took the matter to court, claiming that the city had violated the constitutional rights of free speech and liberty for both himself and the punks. In March 1981, an Orange County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the city, and rejected the allegations that the city had at any point been unjustly fair in its decision. However, less than a month later the California Supreme Court overturned the lower court's ruling, and The Nest was allowed to reinstate live music, much to the disapproval of the city. Not too long after this, the club began to showcase bands again, but Roach was blindsided by the city when they took advantage of the fact that the Cuckoo's Nest did not have a licensed dance permit, and effectively crippled the club by imposing a ban on dancing, refusing to issue a permit, and having a judge uphold the ban in court. The police started to strengthen their presence and upheld the ban without exception, making countless arrests, and club attendance dwindled drastically by December 1981 from nearly 350 people a night, to a few dozen some nights. In his 1981 film on the subject, Urban Struggle**, Roach suggested that perhaps this was the first time that the authorities would stamp out a fad, but also asserted that a scene with as much intensity as punk-rock could not and would not die out; it would merely go back underground and continue to bubble under the surface.The club finally closed its doors at the end of 1981 as a result of the dance ban, as Roach said he did not want to see kids being arrested for simply expressing themselves. In 1982 the building became another music venue called The Concert Factory before closing down again after a couple of years. The space was then absorbed by former adversary Zubie's and became a pizzeria named Zubie's Gilded Cage. The former site of The Cuckoo's Nest, along with Zubie's, was bought in 1998 by Hank's Electric Supplies, who demolished both to make way for a warehouse. In media:The Vandals' songs "The Legend of Pat Brown" and "Urban Struggle" cover the parking lot battles between Cuckoo's Nest and Zubie's patrons. **In 1981, as the police started to sporadically raid the club, Roach hired a student film-maker named Paul Young to record them when they did so. The idea to film a documentary about the club and the punk scene came about from there, and Roach and Young began interviewing and filming the bands and club patrons. The footage was compiled into a documentary, roughly 40 minutes in length, titled Urban Struggle: The Battle of the Cuckoo's Nest. Also, We Were Feared – The Story of the Cuckoo's Nest, a film directed by Jonathan W.C. Mills and executive produced by York Shackleton, premiered at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival. ------------------------------------------------------------------

Price: 49 USD

Location: Standard, California

End Time: 2024-11-11T03:00:54.000Z

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