FEBRUARY 15 and 16, 1980RETURN TO 1980
TOUR: ?
VENUE: the Bahamas, Seattle, Washington
ACTS: Black Flag, Exquisite Corpse, Chinas Comidas
EPHEMERA: Excerpt from Desperate Times.
RECORDING:
SETLIST:

On the 16th Kyle Nixon sang Nervous Breakdown with the band. Next time they came through town he would be the one putting on the show, and the time after that his own band, Solger, would open for them.

Memories of this show? Flyers? Live audio or video? Photos? Interviews?
Communicate.
DESPERATE TIMES:

Solger formed in June of 1980.
Paul - guitar, Kyle - vocals, Doug - bass, Tor - drums.
Inspired by the Germs and Black Flag; the desire to expend pent up energy was excuse enough to start their own band...

CAT: What impressed you about the Germs or Black Flag?
DOUG: My opinion is that bands like Black Flag, the Germs, are punk bands. They are hardcore, not teeny-bopper bands. A lot of bands come on and they think they're going to be hardcore, but they're teeny-bopper music. It's like 1-2-3-4-5-6...you know. Let's have lots of fun.
KYLE: Black Flag has lots of energy. That was their big thing.
CAT: What's your real definition of hardcore, then?
KYLE: Noncompromising. Black Flag didn't compromise. I know when they first came here all these guys who are now into hardcore--I won't mention any names--they didn't like Black Flag at the Bahamas because Black Flag weren't compromising. They said you had to compromise and Black Flag didn't. You know they didn't. Hardcore put out. They didn't like it, but now it's like Black Flag or something. they wear headbands and everything.
DOUG: Loud, dater power that's annoying but in the right perspective. A lot of music is annoying and you dno't want to hear it 'cause it's a bunch of shit. You can take the band seriously. They don't get up there and dance around and shit.
KYLE: It's a real adrenaline rush.

Excerpt from an interview published in the October, 1981 (more than a year after Solger split) issue of Desperate Times.

FEBRUARY 15 and 16, 1980RETURN TO 1980