Post #722759 by MrBaliHai on Thu, Jul 17, 2014 6:03 AM

On 2014-07-17 04:07, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
Thanks MrBaliHai, I am pretty sure I had drinks with those guys on a few occasions
it was just before the hair bands took over Hollywood, then things got stupid.

If you had any interactions with the LA Punk in-crowd, you definitely would've run into the Flipside crew at some point.

I met up with Alice Bag and Michele Flipside at the Ti back in 2005. X-8 and Pooch were invited also, but they were no-shows (there's still some bad blood there). Al has gone undercover since the magazine folded, so we weren't able to contact him. We had a pretty good time taking a trip down Old Punk Memory Lane. The Bum and Humu were there that night as well.

As for the Goth-Kelbo connection, X-8 helped launch that scene at Harry's Bar, so I suspect that his interest in Tiki (at least the cocktail part of it) appealed to them, in some twisted way, as the antithesis of their dark fetishes.