Dave Markey is an underground legend. A filmmaker who started making Super 8 movies before he hit his teens, by the time he finished high school he and his best friend Jordan Schwartz were the unofficial chroniclers of LA’s hardcore punk scene thanks to their ‘zine We Got Power! . We Got Power! only lasted for a few years, but after a long and totally awesome career documenting and making music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, Shonen Knife, The Circle Jerks, The Meat Puppets and Dinosaur Jr. as well as making the punk rock girl-gang classic Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984), its sequel Lovedolls Superstar (1986), and the award-winning documentary The Reinactors (2008), Dave teamed back up with his friend Jordan to re-visit their old ‘zine. The result is We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California , the new book from Bazillion Points that combines Markey and Schwartz’s photographs with essays from the people who were there. Illuminating, impassioned, and essential reading for anyone in need of some inspiration, We Got Power! is the definitive document of LA hardcore in the early ’80s. We talked to Dave at home, where he told us about his movies, the LA scene then and now, and the indelible appeal of Russ Meyer. More after the jump!
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