Tuesday, June 23, 2026

I was one of LA's Wasted Youth teen punks



Wasted Youth: "Problem Child"

Atomic Video Jukebox(Atomic Video Jukebox) I first heard LA's Wasted Youth (with frontman Danny Spira) on "Rodney on the ROQ" (Mayor of the Sunset Strip pervy Jewish Rodney Bingenheimer's new-music radio show on KROQ in LA) in 1981.


I immediately went out and bought their hardcore punk album Reagan's In and wore it out over time playing it so much.
Wasted Youth: Reagin's In
(Dead Kennedys) "California Uber Alles" San Francisco scene punks

I first saw Wasted Youth early in 1982 at the Hollywood Palladium when they played with T.S.O.L., the Adolescents, Social Distortion, Youth Brigade, and others. It was an amazing show with a very active mosh pit!


We Got Power! (The Decibel Store)
I blended the footage with digital audio from their album and made this fan video from live footage of the band as well as post-gig footage at Oki Dog in Hollywood, Los Angeles, all shot by Dave Markey.

Dave Markey of We Got Power Films, drummer of Sin 34, was very ambitious and always carried a movie camera and film with him back then. And from the footage he shot, he made some short films and the punkumentary The SLOG Movie, featuring a number of SoCal bands including Sin 34.

Still Not Dead | Hard to Kill | No Quit
This video was put together by me uses his footage, which he shot for the Slog Movie. #WastedYouth #ProblemChild​ #DavidMarkey​ #DaveMarkey​ #WeGotPowerFilms​ #punk​ #PunkRock​ #SoCalPunk​ #AtomicVideoJukebox #DJAtomic #djatomiclv #djatomic702

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  • Punk's Not Dead; Atomic Video Jukebox, 5/10/21; Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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