{"id":3765,"date":"2012-06-01T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T22:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:32:03","slug":"alice-bag-at-book-beat-wed-june-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2012\/06\/01\/alice-bag-at-book-beat-wed-june-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Bag at Book Beat, Wed. June 20th!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Legendary Los Angeles punk rock figure Alice Bag<\/strong> will be joining us at the Book Beat<\/strong> on Wednesday, June 20th from 7-8pm<\/strong> to discuss and sign copies of her recently released memoir Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story<\/em><\/strong>.Violence Gir<\/em><\/strong>l details her rise from an East LA barrio to punk figurehead as a member of the groundbreaking group The Bags<\/strong>, to her current role as a mother, author, and punk feminist. This event is free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be for sale at the event. If you have any questions regarding this event, please call Book Beat (248) 968-1190<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Violence Girl<\/em><\/strong> is not some sentimental look back at how great it all was. Alice<\/strong> [Bag<\/strong>], without exaggeration, allows the reader to understand how exciting and in-the-moment things could be\u2014but also how quickly and easily things can go bad and come to an end.With The Bags in the middle of it, it was a time of incredible innovation, explosive creativity and recordings that stand the test of time.”\u2014Henry Rollins<\/strong> for LA Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n

The Bags<\/strong> <\/span>was formed by Alice <\/span>Armendariz and Pat<\/span>ricia<\/span> <\/span>R<\/span>ainone<\/span>, <\/span>who had met at an <\/span>audition for <\/span>Venus and the <\/span>Razorblades, Kim <\/span>Fowley’s next <\/span>attempt at creating <\/span>a band after <\/span>The Runaways had <\/span>left him. <\/span>Alice and Pat decided to <\/span>form <\/span>their own band and from <\/span>this <\/span>The Bags were born. They <\/span>took <\/span>the band’s name and their <\/span>stage <\/span>names “Alice Bag”<\/strong> and <\/span>“Pat <\/span>Bag” from a gimmick that <\/span>the <\/span>band used during early <\/span>performances where they would <\/span>perform with grocery bags over <\/span>their heads. <\/span>Alice Bag<\/strong> was the <\/span>vocalist and Pat Bag played <\/span>bass. The band was rounded <\/span>out by guitar players Craig Lee <\/span>and Rob Ritter, and Terry <\/span>Graham played drums.<\/span> <\/span>The Bags<\/strong> played their first show <\/span>at The Masque on September <\/span>10, 1977. <\/span>By 1979, they had released their <\/span>first record, a single called <\/span>“Survive”, backed with <\/span>“Babylonian Gorgon”, released <\/span>by independent record label <\/span>Dangerhouse Records. “We <\/span>Don’t Need The English” was <\/span>included on the Yes L.A. punk <\/span>compilation released by the <\/span>same label.<\/span><\/p>\n

After this, Pat left the band. In <\/span>1980 the group, minus Pat, was <\/span>filmed by Penelope Spheeris for <\/span>the seminal punk rock <\/span>documentary film, The Decline <\/span>of Western Civilization, which <\/span>also featured The Germs, Black <\/span>Flag, Catholic Discipline, X and <\/span>other prominent L.A. punk <\/span>bands. However, at the release <\/span>of the film in 1981 the producers <\/span>billed the group as Alice Bag <\/span>Band to avoid any conflict with
\n<\/span>ex-member Pat. By then, <\/span>however, the band had broken <\/span>up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alice Bag<\/strong> went on to join <\/span>Castration Squad, which <\/span>included Phranc and Dinah <\/span>Cancer among its many <\/span>members. In the 1990<\/span>‘<\/span>s she <\/span>would form Cholita! with punk <\/span>rock drag queen Vaginal Davis <\/span>and the band released several
\n<\/span>videos. After this<\/span>,<\/span> she performed <\/span>with Las Tres and then formed <\/span>Stay At Home Bomb, her most <\/span>recent musical project.
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Legendary Los Angeles punk rock figure Alice Bag will be joining us at the Book Beat on Wednesday, June 20th from 7-8pm to discuss and sign copies of her recently released memoir Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story.Violence Girl details her rise from an East LA barrio to punk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-punk-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}