The city fathers and the Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles police and fire departments have pushed us out of one venue or another," said Jeffrey Burkholder, 24, a plumber's helper who lives in Thousand Oaks. Most clubs that book punk acts have been closed because of complaints from neighbors, revocation of conditional use permits and conflicts between punks and police.
Godzilla's is vital to the punk scene in Los Angeles, according to the club's patrons. Stern has big shows planned for the future, but can't book any acts The Los Angeles Fire Department threatened to shut down Godzilla's unless it got the license.
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Legal Weapon and Channel 3 played for free Saturday night to help the club raise enough money to buy a dancehall permit. We try to cut the business out of it and bring it bade to basics." The record companies made a big business out of rock. "Rock and roll is supposed to be for kids. Million-selling rock bands like Foreigner, REO Speedwagon and Styx are dinosaurs to Stern, relics of the sterile Punk is a lifestyle for most people," he explained. The 70's had disco and now in the 80's you've got the punks.
A lot of kids have been looking and waiting for something like "There's no other club tee this in Los Angeles. The 20-year-old manages the club and plays in a band called Youth Brigade. That's why it's so good," said Rodney S., 21, a Cal Arts student. "Godzilla's is for the kids and run by the kids. They come from as far away as Oxnard and Orange County. Located near the intersection of San Fernando Road and Vineland, punk rockers have adopted Godzilla's as their own club in the month since it has opened. What was once a Latin bar and a bowling alley, is now in its latest incarnation a bastion of punk in Los Angeles. "Punks don't fight-Save the club," in black spraypaint adorns one wall, the ubiquitous smiling face on buttons and bumper stickers of the 1970s is painted on another wall, but with swastikas for eyes. The scrawl of slogans, epithets and the names of bands like Sham 69, Youth Brigade and TSOL outdoes the New York subway. Graffiti provides the only relief to the stark walls. The air is tense, the electric atmosphere heightened by dim lights against grimy blue walls. Incited by the machine gun attack of guitars and the rough, urgent growl of singer Kat, dancers take over the floor, slamming into each other and caroming off bystanders trying to jump out of the way. Godzilla: Punk rock explodes in Sun Valley Tuesday, Jan 12, 1982 Much of this info comes from xeroxed newspaper clippings, and alot of it isn't attributed. BYO's relationship with Godzilla soured when the owner spent the money on redecorating, rather than permits, and the last straw came when the owner became involved with the people who ran the Starwood ballroom.BYO pulled out and returned to promoting shows at whatever halls they could rent for the night. When the club was shut down by the fire marshall for not having an live entertainment permit, BYO organized several benefit gigs to pay for the legal fees. In late 1981 and early 1982 it booked a number of punk gigs under the auspices of the BYO, and the organization handled every aspect of the music angle-the security, the booking, the promotion.
Godzilla's was a bowling alley/nightclub-cum-gig-space in the San Fernando valley. Dementlieu Punk Archive: Youth Brigade: Godzilla's Nightclub return to main
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