Various Artists
Punk History Vol. 3
2007
Liberula Barriguda Recordings

01 X – Los Angeles
02 The Avengers – We Are the One
03 Black Flag – Wasted
04 Discharge – Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
05 T.S.O.L. – Dance with Me
06 Agent Orange – Bloodstains
07 Vice Squad – Young Blood
08 Adolescents – Amoeba
09 Redd Kross – Annette’s Got the Hits
10 Toy Dolls – Stay Mellow
11 Chron Gen – Jet Boy, Jet Girl
12 Infa Riot – Catch 22
13 Bad Brains – Big Takeover
14 Fear – I Love Livin In the City
15 Government Issue – Understand
16 Social Distortion – The Creeps
17 Last Resort – King of the Jungle
18 Legal Weapon – Equalizer
19 Stepmothers – Don’t Kill the Beat
20 The Vandals – Pizza Tran
21 Bad Religion – Atomic Garden
22 Kraut – Getaway
23 Agnostic Front – Gotta Go
24 D.I. – Johnny’s Got a Problem
25 7 Seconds – Straight On
26 The Dead Milkmen – Punk Rock Girl
27 Youth of Today – Can’t Close My Eyes
28 Poison Idea – Desecrate
29 Murphy’s Law – Shut Up
30 Dag Nasty – Values Here
31 Operation Ivy – Yellin’ in My Ear
32 Jeff Dahl – I’m in Love with the Gto’s
33 Cadillac Tramps – Hoodoo Guru
34 Gorilla Biscuts – High Hopes

This has something for everybody, TSOL, Black Flag and the band that if you’re “punk” you’re supposed bow down to: Bad Brains. Great compilation

If you don’t own it, get it.

Rating: *** three out of five stars

On with the story . . .

More than a dozen years ago, before marriage, before the birth of my son, etc., I found myself in some trouble, warrants, etc. And was sentenced to Camp Wayside, out by Magic Mountain, for approximately 1/3 of the year.

During this time I took a job as a barber, I cut everyone’s hair through high school, and enrolled in Barber College right after graduation. Years later I got into graphic design, and reserved haircuts for friends and family only. My job as a Wayside barber paid me in the neighborhood of 25¢ a day. Once I had been cutting hair for a few weeks, quite a few of the “white” sheriffs started waking me up in the middle of the night to “request” haircuts. This was the best deal in the place, they would give me extra food, sometimes do favors – watch someone who was giving me a hard time, etc.

Wayside would always have three barbers, Black, Hispanic, and White. Each race would, usually, stay with barbers of their own race, unless you did something to annoy your race. Then, as in my case, the Whites would go to the Hispanic barber. The three barbers bunked in the same section together, and worked together, and were, basically, stuck together 24/7. Even if you hated races different than your own, it was hard not to get to be friends with the other barbers. The problem with this was the inmates were divided into four distinct camps: The Blacks, The Woods (Whites), The Paisans (Mexicans straight from Mexico), The Southsiders (Mexicans gangsters). If you talk too much to anyone from any of these other camps, someone would want to beat you down.

I made it through two race riots, first one was Mexicans versus the Whites, no one died but plenty were wounded, I came out of it without a scratch. Second riot was Blacks against Whites; I came out OK, punched in the back of the head, but stayed up. After these riots the Head of The Woods didn’t want me to talk to the other barbers, Hispanic or as they referred to the Blacks – Toads. They wanted to remain racist without saying the dreaded “n-word.” Well, unbeknownst to everyone I was tutoring the head of the “black-car.” Bull, as he was known, didn’t know how to read (he was the other barber) and he felt I could help him without me telling people. Also, when internal race issues came up with the Blacks he would ask my opinion, but I would swear not to let this come out, it would cause further riots and get him beat down.

So, when more and more pressure was being put on me by the Whites, Bull talked to the heads of the “white-cars,” and said that I was Italian and I had the full backing of the Blacks at Wayside, so if there was a problem with me the Blacks would riot on every White at Wayside, but me.

After that I was left alone, but warned as I left Wayside to “never come back.”

I never went back.

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