GOOD BAD PRETTY | VINYL RECORD (LP)

Vinyl LP pressing of this album from the Bay Area punk troublemakers. The lineup heard on Good Bad Pretty includes drummer and vocalist Sugar Fixx; guitarist and vocalist Tracy Lourdes; and Ron Draino—better known as the visual artist Chris Johanson, a key figure in the Mission School art movement, which included Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen—who played bass and sang. "I was a kid, I took mushrooms to help me 'ease into things.' It was a perfect SF night [circa 1999]-warm and dimly lit, shit-and-piss-smelling Clarion Alley. A band took the eye-level built-that-afternoon stage. I had peeked up gender-bent punk's chicken-leather skirt and into eternity. How old were they? Who were they? How were they so fascinating? "They were blowing my young mind. I remember a show where, for some reason I can't recall, but probably the cops had shut a party down, they got moved to a friend's backyard down on 3rd Street. They played in front of a halogen work light on cement and somebody threw a bucket of yellow latex paint into the sky. The show was incredible and unstoppable (until the bikers next door called the cops and broke up the party). I'm not sure how I made it home but the next morning I woke up to strangers sleeping on my living room floor and yellow-paint footsteps covering my joint. I spent the next day gagging on my hands and knees scrubbing paint off the hardwood floor (even the shitty flats in SF have nice floors). Drugs, violence; general snootiness; elastic paranoid guitar; SRO drum kit; coke-bottle specs, sharp bass sounds.” -John Dwyer