Treat Me Like Dirt captures the personalities that drove the
original Toronto punk scene. This is the first book to document the
histories of the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head, along with
other bands (B-Girls, Curse, Demics, Dishes, Forgotten Rebels,
Johnny & the G-Rays, the Mods, the Poles, Simply Saucer, the
Ugly and more) and fans that brought the punk scene to life in
Toronto. This book is a punk rock road map, full of chaos,
betrayal, pain, disappointments, failure, success, and the pure
rock 'n' roll energy that frames this layered history of punk in
Toronto and beyond. Treat Me Like Dirt is a story assembled from
individual personal stories that go beyond the usual "we played
here, this famous person saw us there" and into sex, drugs, murder,
conspiracy, booze, criminals, biker gangs, violence, art (yes, art)
and includes one of the last interviews with the late Frankie Venom
(singer of Teenage Head). The book includes a wealth of previously
unpublished photographs. This uncensored oral history of the 1977
Toronto punk explosion was originally published in 2010 by Bongo
Beat and is now available to the trade. Exclusive to this edition
is a selected discography of all key Toronto punk releases
referenced in the book, contributed by Frank Manley, author of
Smash The State (1992), the acclaimed and pioneering discography of
Canadian punk (and subsequent vinyl compilations) that activated
the current international interest in Canadian punk from the '70s
and early '80s.
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