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Black Flag – Show List and Key Dates

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This index will attempt to gather show dates and flyers for all appearances


 

1979

Date: January 27, 1979
Venue: Moose Lodge Hall
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
Notes: with Alleycats, Rhino 39; first advertised show

Date: February 17, 1979
Venue: Teen Post
Location: San Pedro, CA
Notes: with Alleycats, Descendents, Plugz, Reactionaries (later, Minutemen), Last

 

Date: June 11, 1979
Venue: Bla Bla Café
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Black Flag’s first club gig; they were also booked for the 19th, but the owner refused to let them play.

Date: June 18, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with The Last

 

Date: June 22 and 29, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Fear, Controllers, Plugz, X

 

Date: June 29, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Fear, Controllers, Plugz, X

 

Date: July 13, 1979
Venue: The Masque
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with UXA, Smart Pills, Black Hearts

 

Date: July 22, 1979
Venue: Polliwog Park
Location: Manhattan Beach, CA
Notes: with Eddie and the Subtitles, Tourists, Big Wow

 

Date: July 30, 1979
Venue: The Church
Location: Hermosa Beach, CA
Notes: with Last, Urinals, Gears, Tourists

Date: August 11, 1979
Venue: Club 88
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with with Middle Class, Eddie and the Subtitles

 

Date: August 12, 1979
Venue: The Masque
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Mau Maus, UXA, Smart Pills, Black Hearts; last show at The Masque: show was shut down, but Black Flag did play.

Date: August 27, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Tourists; Ron Reyes plays drums w/Tourists because their drummer is MIA.

Date: September 1, 1979
Venue: Mars Studio
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Plugz, Silencers, Gears; show was shut down

 

Date: September 2, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with UXA, Red Cross

 

Date: September 12, 1979
Venue: Gazzarri’s
Location: West Hollywood, CA

 

 

Date: September 19, 1979
Venue: King’s Palace
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Red Cross, Gears, Mau Maus, Terminals

 

Date: September 22, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Germs, Middle Class

 

Date: September 25, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Flyboys, Silencers; David Bowie in the audience (!?)

 

Date: September 27, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with UXA, Red Cross

 

Date: October 9, 1979
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: Western Front Festival 1979, with (Impatient) Youth, Feederz

Date: October 10, 1979
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: Western Front Festival 1979, with Dead Kennedys, Feederz

 

Date: October 25, 1979
Venue: Pippin’s
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Notes: with Flyboys, F-15’s, Red Cross

 

Date: October 26, 1979
Venue: King’s Palace
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Terminals, Audio Vidiots

 

Date: October 31, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Fear, Germs, Chinas Comidas

 

Date: November 1, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Mau Maus, Red Cross, Urinals, Spittin’ Teeth; two flyers for this show

 

 

 

 

Date: November 1, 1979
Venue: Anti-Club
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Angry Samoans, Overman, Jonnies

Date: November 3, 1979
Venue: The Church
Location: Hermosa Beach, CA
Notes: with Skrews

Date: November 23, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Last, Fear, Urinals

 

Date: December 1, 1979
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with Mutants, Madness

 

Date: December 16, 1979
Venue: Blackie’s
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Ron Reyes debuts as vocalist

 

Date: December 21, 1979
Venue: Whisky A Go Go
Location: West Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Plugz; Keith and Greg (Hetson) announce plans for a new band.

 

The Cheifs

In November of 1979, Bob Glassley and a few friends piled into his car for a road trip down the West Coast. It was a retired police cruiser from the Dorris California Police Department, an all-white Plymouth with a souped-up engine. At the time, Glassley sang for a young punk band from Portland called the Rubbers. They were on a mission that day, to make some alliances in the Los Angeles music scene, and to line up some shows for a touring caravan of Portland bands. “We set out for L.A., and the motor blew somewhere outside of Stockton,” Glassley says. “When we got back on the road we found out it was the day they were taping the Hollywood Christmas parade. All of the freeway exits were closed, so we just kept driving around the city, looking for an off-ramp.”

Eventually they made it into the city and crashed at the Holly-West in Hollywood. The space was a former MGM studio and office building on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western, housing everything from a porno studio and a church led by a gay preacher to rehearsal spaces where musicians lived, practiced and spent most of their time hanging out.

One day, Glassley was listening to a group making noise in a nearby room when a young man with bright blue hair — George Walker — poked his head around the doorway and asked if anyone played bass. “I said I did, although that was a serious stretch,” Glassley says. “I owned a cheap bass back in Portland, so I felt qualified.”

Walker was a gay black man in the late ’70s L.A. punk scene at a time when there were few out gay or black punk musicians.

The two became friends, and after sticking around and playing music for a few days, Glassley was invited to join the group and play bass alongside Walker on guitar with singer Jerry Koskie and drummer Kenneth “Rabit” Bragger. Soon they would come to be known as Cheifs. (further reading…)