OFF! Contribute To Upcoming Book On 80’s Southern Californian Hardcore

Members of Los Angeles punk quartet OFF! Keith Morris (ex-Black Flag, ex-Circle Jerks) and bassist Steven McDonald (Red Cross/Redd Kross) have contributed  to the upcoming hardcover hardcore history WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California, by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz.

Morris contributes the short story “Electric Fried Wiener,” with the following exert being chosen to describe the story: “It was the same story at any venue allowing something that resembled punk rawk musical stylings…drinking, smoking, and carrying on outside the club like the carefree goofballs and goofballettes that we were…”

The book also featuring essays by members of the Adolescents, the Vandals, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, White Flag, to name a few.  In addition, the book features pictures of Morris and McDonald on camera circa 1982 at venues like the Whisky, the Brown Box, and Santa Monica.  The book is currently projected for an August 2012 release.