'DESOLATION CENTER' w/ Stuart Swezey, Bruce Licher, ML Compton & Skip King

This week, we talk to Stuart Swezey & Bruce Licher, who produced and worked on the Desolation Center series of shows that took bands like minutemen, Swans, Redd Kross, Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, and Einsturzende Neubauten and put them in locations such as the Mojave Desert as a reaction to the omnipresent police violence against punk rock kids. We talked about the Desolation Center documentary that Swezey directed, the iconic visuals that Licher created for the events, having the legendary artist Chris Burden as your teacher, the healing power of Throbbing Gristle, how to source school buses to take punk rockers to the desert, fake ids, Savage Republic, Glenn Branca and the No New York LP, Redd Kross getting lost in the desert, violence coming from rednecks, the notion of selling out and not repeating oneself, the impact of D. Boon on the scene, Survival Research Laboratories, Lydia Lunch, being naive, Action News, the eventual change in the 80s music underground, psychedelics, early punk clubs like The Masque and Brave Dog, NEA grants for industrial noise music events, and we’re also joined by surprise guests, ML Compton and Skip King who are featured in the documentary and describe what it was like being a passenger into the unknown. So party with me punker, as we head into the desert at night on this week’s Revolutions Per Movie. DESOLATION CENTER: https://www.desolationcenter.com/ SEE THE FILM IN MAY 2024 IN L.A.: https://www.instagram.com/dktrfest/ STUART SWEZEY: https://www.amokbooks.com/ BRUCE LICHER: https://www.independentprojectrecords.com/ LIMITED EDITION REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE SHIRT: revolutionspermovie.bandcamp.com REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE: Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide. New episodes of Revolutions Per Movies are released every Thursday, and if you like the show, please subscribe, rate, and review it on your favorite podcast app. The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support the show is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie , where you can get weekly bonus episodes and exclusive goods sent to you just for joining. SOCIALS: @revolutionspermovie X, BlueSky: @revpermovie THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind' www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.