GETTING NOWHERE FAST
Another bandmember in the Tell-Tale Hearts, Ray Brandes is also an author. His book on the San Diego underground rock scene, Getting Nowhere Fast came out in December 2015. I had previously borrowed heavily from his history of past UARB the Crawdaddys that I found online a few years ago. The blurb in Amazon says: “1976-1986 was a period of time in which urban tribes staked out and ferociously defended their territories; a time when San Diego began to establish for itself an identity as more than just a Navy town with a great zoo. Getting Nowhere Fast, written by Ray Brandes of the Tell-Tale Hearts, looks at the origins of this period of ‘new’ music in San Diego, and provides an insider’s look at a handful of bands who never quite hit the big time, but who developed cult followings around the world. The histories of the Zeros, the Penetrators, the Unknowns, the Crawdaddys, the Tell-Tale Hearts, and several more groups are presented here for the first time in print.” Remarkably, three of the five bands on this list – the Unknowns, the Crawdaddys, and the Tell-Tale Hearts – are among the UARB’s.
(September 2017)
