Started in 1977 with a shoestring budget, Chris Ashford's one man record company documented the early punk scene in L.A.
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The Germs | Thought by many to be the punk-est of the punk bands- 1st release on What? |
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The Dils | Brothers Chip and Tony Kinman's 1st release |
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The Controllers | 1st single by the long running Controllers |
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The Eyes | All Star band featuring Charlotte Caffey and Don Bonebrake- future members of the Go-gos and X |
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The Skulls | Featuring Wall of Voodoo founder Marc Morland and Chas Grey. Billy Bones Continues today with a re-formed Skulls. |
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The Spastics | Known as the worst punk band in L.A., they did two songs for What? that may get released yet. The band hailed from L.A.'s west side and included David Baerwald. |
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The Tidal Waves | This band could never quite get there act together, but they did manage to record a few tracks. There was supposed to be a lot of humor involved but it didn't come out on the disc. |
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Hillary Laddin | Laddin, an early drummer in the Leaving Trains, kicks out her own tunes. |
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The Martyrs | Studio punk rock by a band that never played live. Includes vocals by Hilary Laddin. |
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KAOS | Johnny Stingray's post Controllers band with Amy Wichmann [Jeff Dahl Band] |
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Gabriel Morgan (Michael Penn) | Quirky pop record by local L.A. singer Morgan. Includes Michael Penn's first appearance on vinyl |
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Agent Orange | Fullerton's finest Skatepunk rockers crank two surf tunes for the What Surf comps |
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Davie Allan And The Arrows* | 60's fuzz guitar slinger added many tracks to the What/Iloki catalog |
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The Surfraiders* | Bob Dalley and company add some tracks to the What Surf series. |
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The Halibuts | Surf sounds with Pete Curry[now with Los Straight Jackets] |
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The Burglars | High end surf punk from this 3 piece that included Samantha Stevens real life son. |
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The Pyramids | Early surf reissue on What by this legendary surf outfit. |
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The Pandoras | Paula Pierce and company fuzz rock their own kind of instrumental for What Surf. Paula borrowed Davie Allan's 60's Moserite fuzz box for this one. |
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The Ventures | Iloki licensed some odd tracks to come up with the album 'Radical Guitars'. One being a Japanese car commercial backing track. |
We'll post more as soon as chris can dig them up!