DESOLATION
CENTER (Film
Review)
Featuring
Stuart Swezey, Perry Farrell, Mark Pauline, members of Minutemen,
Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, Redd Kross, Einstűrzende
Neubauten. Directed by Stuart Swezey. (2018/93 min)
ON
DIGITAL FROM MU PRODUCTIONS
Review
by Fluffy the Fearless😸
Fed
up with the local mainstream's overall contempt for the L.A. Punk
scene, super fan Stuart Swezey took it onto himself to organize a
series of shows – collectively dubbed Desolation Center - that
would take place far away from media and police scrutiny.
Assembled
on-the-fly with few resources and nearly no promotion, these
grassroots gigs were mostly held in the remote desert. Ticket buyers,
trucked to the locations in old school buses, literally had no idea
where they were going on the day of the show (which was part of the
experience). The shows themselves featured such underground
antiheroes as Minutemen & Sonic Youth, as well as performance
artists like Mark Pauline (who blows shit up) and the avant garde
German group, Einstűrzende
Neubauten (who make music with power tools).
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