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Title: Blasters show
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Edwards, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph included in the Exhibit: From Pop to the Pit, The LAPL Photo Collection Celebrates the L.A. Music Scene, 1978-1989.
Formed in 1979 by brothers Dave and Phil Alvin of Downey, California, The Blasters play what they refer to as "American Music"--a hybrid of rockabilly, blues, and mountain music. The band was a fixture in the L.A. punk scene and their music has been prominently featured in television shows, movies and video games.
The Blasters performing at an unidentified venue in Los Angeles; left to right, Dave and Phil Alvin. Photograph dated April 1, 1983.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00121777
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Musical Groups--Blasters
CARL0005343105
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34053
Subject: Alvin, Phil
Alvin, Dave
Blasters (Musical group)
Guitarists--United States
Rock groups--United States
Singers--United States
Rock musicians--United States
Fender guitar
Guitars
Rock concerts--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Brothers--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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