Crawdaddys/Scan/GDV at the Syndicate

Crawdaddys, Manual Scan, Gravedigger V; Syndicate, May 26, 1984This hitherto unpublished 1984 flyer from the Bruce Haemmerle Collection portrays the Crawdaddys, Manual Scan and the Gravedigger V at Point Loma’s Syndicate all-ages club.

I’m giving it pride of place for a few reasons:

1. Considering the brevity of the GDV’s career, flyers for the band have been rare as hen’s teeth.

More Gravedigger V flyers from the Tom Goddard Collection!

2. I actually remember this gig as the location of a couple of very amusing anecdotes that are entirely inappropriate to share publicly. (Let’s get a beer, and I’ll tell a few stories!)
3. I’m fresh out of new content, so I thought I’d use this bit of ephemera to encourage a discussion of the Syndicate, JP’s and other venues that occupied this address in the ’80s.

5 thoughts on “Crawdaddys/Scan/GDV at the Syndicate

  1. Tony,

    I found those stickers, with Dave A and Flem… Maybe Patrick, too.

    They were in a store room that we were expressly told was off-limits to backstage folks.

    Naturally, we wanted to discover what was in there… 🙂

    Chrome mylar was quickly the “new black”, thereafter.

    How did I miss the gig for this flyer? GDV still together, and Crawdaddys re-formed without Stax? So. Pre-Morlocks. Answers were probably The Mirrors, and TTH were already playing.

    Unusual for me to have missed this.

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  2. this show was an introdution to “garage” music to a few ofthe local kids from the point loma/Ocean Beach area…. for a few of my friends this was there first show…. some of them are still fans of these bands.

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