One Punk Summer - Paperback

by Skip Rhudy (Author)

Tony Lee is done -- done with his parents, done with living at home, done with inane and empty parties and music.

In one frantic moment he finds a new way -- a punk way.

Tony forms a band with his friends in mid-1980s Austin, Texas. Before SXSW, before ACL.

One Punk Summer captures the essence of the times that made people from all over the country and the world want to come to Austin, Texas. This is a story of the seminal years before the tech industry and gentrification altered Austin's landscape permanently. The characters have a blast in a still undeveloped Austin discovering punk, partying, leaving home, and scratching out a living with all kinds of comical odd jobs. They create their own world and manage to put a demo tape together, struggle with too much booze and too much dope, love, and senseless loss. But in the end, they pull it all together and get a gig at the legendary Raul's Club on Guadalupe Street near UT.