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A CRITIC'S NOTE ABOUT THIS BOOK: "SUB-HOLLYWOOD is the work of punk literature that many of us have long been awaiting. Punk was the brilliant sound and account of things falling apart, but its effect has been hard to replicate in writing, since writing lacks the force and rage of sound. BRUCE CAEN makes up for that-indeed, matches the effect-with a sustained narrative that makes that time and sensibility run deeper.
SUB-HOLLYWOOD is the story of a man who has nothing, is without direction, searching for something. For a time, he finds a way, through art and the Los Angeles punk culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s. His passage makes for a riveting and hilarious tale, but also one that comes to trouble and madness. It moves to a shocking conclusion that is perhaps the most remarkable mating of dissolution and redemption that I've ever read.
SUB-HOLLYWOOD reads as an autobiographical narrative, but it incorporates elements of farce, tragedy, history and some essay. It bears fair comparison to the bold, first-person novels of Knut Hamsun, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Leonard Cohen and Hunter S. Thompson, though it's also thoroughly modern and thoroughly of its own. It is the story of things coming apart-which makes it the most valuable sort of story. There's not a false note or false hope on any page. You can't imagine what awaits you here, and you can't forget it long after the last page."
-MIKAL GILMORE, ROLLING STONE Contributing Editor; SHOT IN THE HEART, Author (Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award;
Los Angeles Times-Best Biography).

PROMOTIONAL DESCRIPTION ABOUT THIS BOOK: Written against the backdrop of the first rush of Punk Rock in Los Angeles and Hollywood, this narrative steps into the West Coast Punk Rock scene of 1976-1982, a fervent creative period in youth music and concept which unfortunately has been poorly documented although it has become massively influential and mined for its content as the years pass. Here are the first West Coast Punk Rock bands of the era. The venues, drug addiction, teen sex, violence, disease, crazy parties, death, stage dives and other descriptions are observed directly from the hot summer night streets and alleys of Hollywood. Early West Coast Punk Rock bands struggled to re-create the primitive percussive hoodoo mojo rhythms that energized popular music from the 1950s era American Rock-a-billy and black Rhythm and Blues, to garage rock (like 'Hey Joe' by The Leaves, later covered by Jimi Hendrix), and The Clash. Black leather metal studded street fashions on teens in spiked haircuts on teens dismayed confused parents. Long before Prozac, Paxil, and Wellbutrin were used to chemically lobotomize the population, California teenagers and young adults turned to BLACK FLAG, X, GERMS, FLIPPER, SOCIAL DISTORTION, RAMONES, and the CIRCLE JERKS to moderate their social anxieties and alleviate family conflicts.