Yard Trauma

The Morlocks in flyers

Morlocks/Tell-Tale Hearts, Sept. 1, 1985(?) (art by Kristen Tobiason, collection Tom Goddard)Tom Goddard’s trove of flyers continues to bear dividends for Che Underground: The Blog. Today’s bequest from the Goddard Collection features show pieces from the Morlocks’ 1984 and 1985 performances in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, created by artists including Jerry Cornelius and Kristen Tobiason.

Detail: Morlocks group shot (collection Tom Goddard)“For more information, call [Tell-Tale Hearts bassist] Mike [Stax],” reads the Tobiason flyer in the lead spot of this post. “If he ain’t home, call [Morlocks guitarist] Ted [Friedman] … If he ain’t home, call [Morlocks bassist] Jeff [Lucas] … ,” providing phone numbers for each. Now that’s customer service!

Detail: Tell-Tale Hearts/Morlocks, Studio 517, August 18, 1984 (collection Tom Goddard)Detail: Morlocks/Need; Rave-Up, LA; Feb. 2, 1985 (art by Jerry Cornelius, collection Tom Goddard)Detail: Morlocks/Things/Through the Looking Glass/Nephews, UCSD Gym, April 26, 1985 (collection Tom Goddard)Detail: Morlocks/Things/Through the Looking Glass/Nephews, UCSD Gym, April 26, 1985 (collection Tom Goddard)Detail: Morlocks/Red Kross, May 1, 1985 (collection Tom Goddard)
Detail: Dead Kennedys/Morlocks/Stoney Burke/Camper Van Beethoven/Rhythm Pigs, Oct. 1, 1985, Mabuhay, SF (collection Tom Goddard)Detail: Chesterfield Kings/Morlocks, Mabuhay Gardens, Nov. 14, 1985 (collection Tom Goddard)Detail: Morlocks, Club 181, SF; Oct. 31, 1985(?) (collection Tom Goddard)Detail: Morlocks/The Fourgiven/Yard Trauma; Swedish American Hall, San Francisco; August 31, 1985 (collection Tom Goddard)

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Later days at the Che

Detail: Lyres/Yard Trauma/Hair Theatre/Manual Scan/the Events/Hottentots flyer(collection Bart Mendoza)Like many Che Underground musicians, I left San Diego in the mid-’80s (February 1987 in my case). However, the Che Cafe itself continued to host music by a variety of acts, many of them related to the bands that staked out the turf in the earlier ’80s.

Generous donors including Bart Mendoza and Bruce Haemmerle have sent me flyers from late-’80s Che Cafe shows. I’m eager to start making connections between the gigs of 1983-’85 and those that happened (at the Che and elsewhere in San Diego) after many of us here had decamped to San Francisco or other ports of call.

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