Hudley Flipside | Punk Rock Colleague • Historian • Archivist
1984 to 2016…and beyond…LOL
“Hudley.”
“We were mocking the mockery before these guys and the Chili Peppers (who happened to be on the back page of Flipside # 43 that we were on the cover of)! Where do you think they got the idea?”
~ Eric VonArab is with Louie Garcia.
Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine Back Cover Issue 43. August 1984
Life is a type of cosmic mockery.
The creative impulse seems unique and fresh but often is another mockery of sorts. Walking around the mall yesterday with my youngest son I see fashion has now taken that mockery place for me.
A full circle of fashion that copies my youthful generation. What we purchased at thrift stores; straight legs and big shirts and boots; or fancy dresses from my mother’s youthful generation. Sequin dresses low in the front with a jeweled brooch.
My cats and I are mightily routine orientated. My Monday morning shopping is to avoid the crowds. I am often amused by the magazines at the checkout counter.
Today my heart raced a little faster. Not due to the young men on the cover; I prefer the older and wiser, but the overall layout of the design.
I have seen that somewhere before.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1081684528/red-hot-chili-peppers-rolling-stone-june
Was it in the mid-1980s when I was at my prime that I orchestrated a hand full of punk musicians to pose partially naked for the cover of Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine 43? I try to put it behind me, but life is a type of cosmic mockery. Hilariously and repetitiously so…
“To answer the question where I got the idea: Out of the black. It was just a flash of insight and some youthful individual female power at the time. I told you to take off your clothes, you did, and I took some pictures.”
~ Hudley Flipside
Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine Front Cover Issue 43. August 1984
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